BEH 200 arts project: celebrating the past, looking to the
future
BEH 200 arts project, funded by Above and Beyond is an
exciting project involving staff, volunteers and patients
in creating a series of glass art works to be installed in the
refurbished building.
Shelley James, artist in residence at the Eye Hospital for the
past four years, is leading the project and has drawn inspiration
from the extraordinary changes that have taken place in eye care
since the hospital was founded and the profound changes that are
taking place now and into the future.
Many of these innovations are thanks to greater understanding of
the role of individual genes and the way they interact with our
environment to affect vision. The project draws on this
aspect by using specialist software that genetic scientists
use to recombine and mutate information over different generations
to create a visual pattern which is unique to each individual
taking part. These formed part of the glass artworks which
were placed around the hospital in November 2010.
Artwork locations
- Ground floor reception: a glass panel will be
created and fixed to the wall behind the desk.
- On Level 1, a series of three or four panels
will be set into the back of a curving sitting area.
- On Level 2, the artwork will take the form of
a single panel that will be set into the back of a low-level
divider separating a seating area from a passageway.
