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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Postnatal Depression
Powerful image and poem describing the agonizing physical and emotional impact of a traumatic childbirth
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’
Head Pain
Emotional or physical pain? – a hospital experience triggers the artist to reflect on the presentation and nature of symptoms in general
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.
This is not a sad story
Beneath the bandages…
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.
Sensory Connections
Creating multi-sensory environments to help newborns thrive
Stitched-Up
Exploring reasons why patients withhold
Peony Petals
The light and shade of living with a skin condition
Behind the Wheel
A patient guides holistic practice
Flowering Sorrow
A creative interpretation of living with loss
The Grip of Alcoholism
Turning the tide of addiction
Clinical Curiosity and Compassion
The balance of maintaining a patient-focus within clinical learnings
A Sacred Space
Trust in surgical teams under the spotlight as issues around patient vulnerability and faith are explored
Anatomical Connections
The exquisite entanglement of holism
Forget-Me-Not
Honouring each child’s life-cycle – however brief
I Have No Regrets
Unconventional occupational choices within perceived disability