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
The Constant Carer
An insight into caring within marriage
Doctors in the Movies
A humorous comparison between historical and contemporary models of consultation and home-visit
False Hope
The complexities of diagnosis and prognosis following a sudden bereavement
Distance
Poignant musings about the student’s younger sister and potentially diminishing bonds
Touch
A dying elderly man being comforted by his wife at his hospital bedside – discussion around withholding further medical intervention
Some Kind of Miracle
Narrative from the perspective of a child about her terminally-ill mother coming home from hospital for Xmas, then remaining in remission for several years
We Do Not Yet See Clearly But Hope is Gold
An evocative narrative, taking a universal approach to explore the role of hope within terminal illness
I Can Only Hope
The desire to maintain heart-felt life-values across time
Unpredictable
‘There will always be shadows on the land ..’ the dynamic balance between health and illness
My First Patient
Soldier confronted by desperate parents giving his water bottle to their child
The Truth
After visiting a children’s cancer-ward in Malaysia – the author speculates about ‘the gateway between life and death’
My Experience of the Dissection Room
A searingly honest account of a student’s attempts to make the transition from individuals to educational cadavers
Paranoia
Figures carrying ‘secret’ health issues
Life in the Glasshouse
A terminally ill patient bodily connected to various machinery processes being on the threshold between life and death
The Window to the Patient
A celebration of the uniqueness of each individual
Homonymous Hemianopia
Humorous poem about the impact of a stroke and the daily challenges of living with only seeing half of your immediate environment
Trapped
Prose from the viewpoint of young girl with her mother in consultation -unable to get word in edgewise
Disabled Mind
A teenager with a cleanliness phobia, perpetual hand-cleaning, turns inwards
Old Addicts
Poem about the precariousness of drug addiction
Postnatal Depression
Powerful image and poem describing the agonizing physical and emotional impact of a traumatic childbirth
The Empathetic Doctor
Composite figure questioning assumptions and identification from cultural/social/gendered/racial and ageist perspectives
It’s all in the genes
A family’s challenges around the acceptance and perceptions of their daughter living with Downs Syndrome
No one
A poetic processing of living with OCD
Face Value
Prose about a young medic feeling he had connected with a patient yet finding her case-notes revealed a very different story
Lady With Pink Hair
Young mother tragically contracting severe neurological condition during clinical treatment and deteriorating rapidly
Beyond Appearances
A student’s observation of a surgeon establishing clinical boundaries
How Can I Ever Forgive Myself?
Prose about a patient’s unbearable grief and guilt and a doctor’s support
Practise What You Preach
The hypocrisy of an authoritarian doctor with life-style issues lecturing on well-being
Real Symptoms
A challenging consultation with a dissatisfied, distraught patient
Helping Hands
Institutionalization and learned helplessness in hospital
Waking
Poignant narrative about a wife waking up next to frail and incapacitated husband
U.B.H.T Lost Property
A hospital-gowned patient at hospital desk – seeking his identity
The Patient
A bleak experience visiting a hospitalized friend – the complexities of mental health care
Life?
Concern regarding holistic care – review of a cocktail of medications and patient’s well-being and happiness in general
Pants
Poem about ‘strange privileges’ of doctors from the banal to the poignant clinical episodes
Caterpillar to Butterfly
Thoughts on how medical education is a form of ‘metamorphosis’
David
Challenging patient in residential care and student’s sense of failure in everyday interactions
New Glasses
Tough recognition of a grandparent’s emotional abuse, and perspectives around death and dying
Chasing the Bismarck
A narrative inspired by a sailor-patient’s adventures: then creative writing in medicine under scrutiny
Pandora’s Box
Auto-immune disorder wreaks emotional havoc for both the clinician-patient and his family
I am Like an Onion
Meeting an elderly lady with depression – haunted by her horrific childhood experiences in wartime Germany
Tolerant Farmer
A stoic farmer reluctant to visit his G.P.