Specialties
Medicine is a speciality of specialties. Even recognisable specialities have spawned sub-specialities – your ophthalmologist may focus only on the lens. You too can use OOOH!! to focus on a particular speciality. Of course, many of our artworks are not so easily categorised.
Selected Artworks
OOOH!! Search & Filter
Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works in OOOH!! which use a particular medium. The dropdown list “Specialties” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Diagnoses.
Bad News
A broad view of the hidden, visceral impact of diagnosis on the patient, family and extended community-potentially mis-interpreted as dis-engaged during the emotional process of adjustment
Heart in Your Hands
The privilege of receiving the patient’s heart and soul
A heart
Poetic explorations of the heart in life and love – ‘a work in progress’
Dealing with Death
Are doctors prepared and resilient when treatment is no longer relevant, in the case of a dying patient and what is the patient’s agenda?
The complex mind
A myriad of challenges to individualised, holistic care surface once mental stability is compromised
Orofacial Pain
The all-consuming and fragmenting impact of chronic and acute facial pain
Trapped by Disease
The will to hold onto self-identity within rapidly advancing motor neuron disease
Lady With Pink Hair
Young mother tragically contracting severe neurological condition during clinical treatment and deteriorating rapidly
When Breath Becomes Air
A doctor’s transition to becoming a patient
Attention: This Building is Unsafe and Likely to Collapse
A daughter shares how her mother handled terminal lung disease both through writing poetry and publishing practical ideas to support family and friends through a cancer diagnosis
11 minutes
A family enmeshed in addiction to smoking – socio/cultural, emotional and medical issues unpicked with compassion
Asthma
A lyrical interpretation of respiratory challenges
The corridors of death
Clinical encounters during a child’s journey with a life-limiting disability raises questions around the dissonance of the hospital environment
The Wait
The role of patient’s decisions around life-choices within palliative care
Im Abendrot (Eichendorff)
Thoughts around embracing death and learning from the wisdom of age
Matthew John – Died Aged 9 Days
The longitudinal, emotional impact of an infant’s death from the obstetrician’s perspective
Living with Genetic Diseases
Living with genetic conditions: identity and self-worth through the metaphor of a child’s experience of society and lack of agency
Resilience in the siblings of disabled children
An insider perspective around disability within the family unit contextualized through current research
Things were rubbish until Josie came to love me
The pivotal role of dogs as companions for those living with disability
It’s all in the genes
A family’s challenges around the acceptance and perceptions of their daughter living with Downs Syndrome
Specialties
The site has links to many/most of the main medical specialties such as cardiology, neurology, respiratory, palliative care and child health.
OOOH!! Search & Filter
Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works in OOOH!! which use a particular medium. The dropdown list “Perspectives” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Diagnoses.
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.