As part of our series of public talks with local cultural organisations held at Norwich School, we were delighted once again to act as host to the highly respected Norfolk Contemporary Art Society (n-cas) on 1st May 2024.
Dr Nicola Simpson, Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts, enlightened an audience of n-cas members, staff and alumni about her ground-breaking work: Hospital Rooms and the Art of Recovery.
During the course of four projects, Norwich University of the Arts, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and the mental health charity Hospital Rooms have collaborated together to explore how museum quality art on display in secure, forensic and in-patient mental healthcare and clinical spaces impact patients, their carers and families and the staff who work there in an astonishingly positive way. She outlined three projects that have happened in East Anglia and how beneficial they have been, not just from the aesthetic improvements to the care environment, but from a profound cultural shift too. This has included redesigning their own ward football team kit, painting the corridors outside their rooms, curating exhibitions and embarking on ambitious multi-media artworks.
N-cas has a busy spring ahead, including hosting the nationally renowned painter Mali Morris RA due on 15th May as part of the popular Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Advance booking is essential. See: Talk by Mali Morris RA — ncas (n-cas.org.uk) for details. All are welcome to these public lectures in the Blake Studio.
Future exciting cultural events during our busy Trinity Term can be found in our recently published programme, here: At Close Quarters - Norwich School.
