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This is the implementation phase of a two-staged funding process. Within this project is the realisation of the commissioned artworks integrated and installed within a new hospital for young people.
The artists involved have collaborated with the hospital design team and community to create work that is considered to be both challenging and sensitive to its health-care context. The artworks are incorporated in the following areas:

• external & internal entrances
• concourse
• courtyards
• main circulation routes
• main waiting areas

See also: Archive: Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital Arts Project

Artists

• Ally Wallace
• Allan Watson
• Dalziel & Scullion
• Jim Buckley
• Lucy Casson
• Michael Brennand-Wood
• Jane Watt
• Lucy Richards
• Andy McGregor
• Matthew Hilton
• Georgia Russell
• Julia Griffiths-Jones

Funding

SAC Award amount

£303,176.00

Project total cost

£618,727.00

Funding purpose

Towards the cost of a collaborative project between artists and the design team for the New Royal Children's Hospital, Aberdeen.

(Please note dates and details correct at time of award.)

Consultation & Commissioning Process

For this project artists were selected through three different routes.

• Open competition advertised through SAC and Artists Newsletter
• Direct invitation of shortlisted artists from a longlist created by PACE
• Limited Design competition for one of the courtyard areas

PACE managed the commissioning process:

Outcomes

The project resulted in the inclusion of site specific artworks by 15 artists:

• Space Place: 75 aluminium coloured poles with fibre optic lights illuminating 40 poles at night
• Coloured Windows: coloured film on south facing concourse windows
• Sculptural seating: architectural plywood.
• The Ontological Garden: stylised trees native to Scotland
• Slinky Tower: 1.5 tonnes stainless steel sculpture, 12m high with fibreoptic lights.
• Feast: family of coloured plaster sculptures on the courtyard roof
• Mr Sandman: series of revolving and static circular chambers set into the wall of the A&E waiting area
• Shakin’ All Over: Eight red metal boxes filled with “collections” and mounted on springs to encourage shoogling
• Postcard Journey: Lightboxes illuminating images of patients home locations across Grampian, the Highlands and Islands
  *Environmental Graphics: inlaid vinyl flooring; fun facts and graphics on walls for signage; columns of body facts
• Lenticulars: two-way photographs of objects revealing their x-ray image
• Lenticular Faces: 30 children’s portraits throughout the hospital
• Waiting Area Seating: sculptural seating
• Paper Constructions: deconstructed, incised and reconstructed found paper suspended in layers within a perspex box
• Healing Apron: Painted mild steel wire and aluminium
• Thank You Dress: Painted mild steel wire and stitched aluminium