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  1. Juri Nishi
  2. Juri Nishi
  3. Nightingale Architects
  4. Dan Savage
  5. Dan Savage - workshops
  6. Dan Savage & Juri Nishi
  7. Dan Savage
  8. Juri Nishi
  9. Juri Nishi - workshops
  10. Dan Savage
  11. Juri Nishi

Client – Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
Architects – Nightingales
Contractors - Dean & Dyball
Landscape Architect – Whitelaw Turkington
Capital Build - £7m

Chalkhill, child and adolescent mental health services,provides intensive inpatient, day and outreach mental health and educational services to young people between 5 and 18 years old.

The Design and Build project for Chalkhill was commissioned as part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s desire to deliver a long-term arts dimension with increased community ownership in mental health settings.

Impact Art’s responsibilities

Working with the Trust, Nightingale Associates architects and Whitelaw Turkington landscape architects, Impact Art’s role included:
Chairing an executive arts steering committee to ensure that high aspirations and quality were maintained throughout the project.
Securing substantial funding through our bid writing and knowledge of arts awards. (This enabled the Trust to commission talented artists to lead workshops with the young people who use the services.)
Sourcing artists via briefs (advertised in the specialist arts press) and a stringent shortlist procedure.
Working with young people to help them select and interview artists, consult on and make prints and designs, and visit a London Gallery to choose pieces from Paintings in Hospitals.

 

Natural forms

Stakeholders were fully supportive of the arts programme and committed time to join forces with artists. The collaborative process led to a building that from conception was to be a creative experience, where art and design infuse every aspect of daily life:

Juri Nishi produced bespoke designs for wallpaper, carpet, textile, crockery and play surfaces (with flora, colour and pattern).
Dan Savage created atrium glazing with vinyl manifestations and young people’s prints.
Adrienne Shields’ exterior wall ceramic tile mural is inspired by the local Sussex Downs landscape.

All have a positive effect on healing and the raising of self-esteem, while gently exploring and testing notions of mental health for visitors, staff and service users.

 

"Art has turned Chalkhill into a stunning experience for all who walk in. Inspired by our young people working with talented artists from the school and Impact Art, the artwork is the icing on the cake of a building that challenges preconceptions of traditional hospital design."
Hazel Rumsey, Associate Director, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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