What’s Art Forms about?
OOOH!! is an eclectic location. It has actively encouraged artistic submissions in a wide diversity of media since 2008. Check out these different types of talent for your interest and inspiration.
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Boxed-in
The complexities of embedding medical learnings from within a remote capsule
The Appearance of Disease
A student visualises patients from their medical notes pre-consultation
A Note On Haiku
Imaginative, poetic presentations of medical conditions
Paint my Canvas
A student chooses to minutely absorb and process a deeply shared patient experience around terminal illness using poetry as method of learning from this privileged gift
Valerie
Narrative inspired by a profoundly disabled patient – insights around being a passive recipient of multiple interventions
An Excerpt From The Diary Of A Patient
Personal account of patient as undisclosed medic hearing her devastating diagnosis unwittingly revealed in clinical shorthand
My First Patient
Soldier confronted by desperate parents giving his water bottle to their child
The Die Hard Smoker
An elderly smoker survives against the odds, defiant in his addiction to tobacco
Hospital: A Living Architecture
Appreciation of hospital care by a close relative causes a student to consider this holistic clinical community
To be true to one another in the good times and in bad…
Hearts connect to maintain the pulse of recovery
Flowers
Exploring the intertwined role of clinical care and family support through flora
Stress in Medical Practice
Opening up conversations about stress in medical practice
Curiosity
A student’s insight into the sensitive dialogue within consultation places due weight on the gifts of genuine authentic connection in healthcare
The Art of the Patient-Narrative
The challenges of describing physical symptoms verbally
Life’s Last Chapter
A grand-daughter’s insight into the nurturing role of the natural environment both at first and second-hand at the end of life
Dementia and the Sense of Self
‘I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that’
Awesome
The artist returns to the charge of birth and re-positions herself as creatively contributing to the shape of her future
Sewing yourself back together
Free-hand embroidery based on exploration of alternative therapies to support post-natal depression.
Heart Strings
Employing skills in embroidery and applique to consider the complexities of living with dyslexia
My Life
A word and textile tribute to ‘The Heart’
Childhood Illness : the family impact
The irreversible effect of acute childhood illness on the family as a whole
Emergency
A pivotal domestic reminder holds a father back from taking his own life
Patient X
This image and text raises complex issues around dis-empowerment and the quality of the patient’s individual lived experience
Make a Difference
An insight into social deprivation through a chance encounter with a local resident
Organ Manufacture
Questions around the ethics of new technologies and a culture of throw-away organs
The Jigsaw of Recovery: caring for anxiety
The fragile nature of supporting anxiety from the perspective of a daughter and carer : clinical and personal perspectives
The Shadow of War
A call for increased clinical sensitivity to the impact of PTSD drawing on biographical material
On the Outside
The universally shared complexities and challenges of emotionally supporting others
Disconnected
The complexities of remote consultations
Beyond the patient – Little Girl’s Lullaby
Hearing and being cherished, both life-lines for a spirited young girl with multiple medical challenges, inspired a remarkable composition
Understanding the True Burden
Strong bonds of family love sustaining a mother living with a chronic and acute ill-health are explored through voice, music and movement
Use Your EQ not just your IQ
Rap based on the need to take an holistic approach during consultation
To Act in the Best Interests of the Patient
The stressful impact of medical consultations on doctors.
Reflections on the Human Form
Drawing on historical and current perspectives to exploring the richness of human form
Trading One Vice For The Other
A gritty encounter with the viscous circle of addiction and sensitive reflection around prevention and shared responsibility
Taking History
An insight into the impact a diagnosis of breast cancer upon a close-knit family
The Spider
A multi-faceted interpretation of living with mental illness inspired by a GP consultation
Loose Threads
This artwork represents the imagined life of a street worker – a composite character inspired by the work of the Bristol charity One25
My mind is not my own
A visual and audio interpretation of the impact of a stroke on a particular patient based on his detailed embodied descriptions
What’s Inside?
A thought-provoking case study of gender ambiguity and identity construction
From Behind, Neurodegeneration Revealed
A Shrinking Maitrix
A Stitch of Support
Tangible comfort through acute disruption
Fancy a cuppa?
A ‘brew’…the national liquid balm
Love’s Distance
Precarious premature births – an unbearable parental limbo
Contrast
Individual difference within health expectations and recovery
The Weight of Shared Memories
Caring for a loved-one with dementia
More Than Words
A fresh eye in the wards
Close Observation
Material and emotional care unwound
Hands of Life
Kaylee Macdonald
Visceral Connections
No Space Left On My Plate
The last ingredient in the mix…
Beyond Skin Colour
Embedded racism within healthcare
Skin Conditions: diagnostic inequalities
Addressing a visual references defecit
Explosion
Migraine made visible
Patient Advocacy
Judging the time to step in
When Morning Meets it’s End
A profound lesson in life and death
White Walls, Dark Truths
Who is truly seen, believed, protected?
Out of Touch
Fractured communities trigger a collective hug mosaic
Beneath the Surface
Peeling back layers of negative rumination in creative collaboration
LGBQT+ Inclusivity in biomedical research
Creative perspectives in Life Sciences
Porcelain Blues
Complexities of embodied trauma
Looking Beyond Normal
Historic gender bias in medicine
Eating disorder labels re-considered
Intersectionality and gendered assumptions challenged.
It’ll get better on its own…
The invisibility of mental health with a focus on socialised masculinity.
Cut from the Same Cloth
Textiles provide a window to a multitude of shared biological patterns.
Endlessness
The cycle of complexities and contrasts within NHS patient-care.
Inside the Walls of a Vaccination Centre
challenges to public health unpicked
Losing Sight
A tangible lesson following a patient’s story deflected
Losing Sight
A tangible lesson following a patient’s story deflected.
Mother and Child
The family toll of children’s long-term stays in hospital.
My Hands are Tied
Struggles and Life-lines in a healthcare crisis
Blinking Bleeps…
Hospital soundscapes: missed opportunities?
Bleach
Identity in hospital end-of-life care
There is a story behind every doctor
Do patients make the best doctors?
Deep Waters
Looking beyond the surface reveals a profound fear of illness and mortality
The Aching Soul
Chronic emotional trauma makes its mark
Just Rest
The role of rest within healthcare
Learning from hands-on anatomy
Gratitude to donors for their invaluable role within medical education
A coat of NHS ethnicities
Celebrating NHS diversity inspires a richly symbolic garment
Who am I, behind the bars?
Holistic care within a fragmented prison system?
Divided land, hand in hand
An indigenous community provides vital health insights to the industrialised world
Permanence
Women surgeons’ experiences of abuse by male colleagues
Under Pressure
Medical decision-making when personal health risks are high.