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.
Blinking Bleeps…
Hospital soundscapes: missed opportunities?
Bleach
Identity in hospital end-of-life care
Deep Waters
Looking beyond the surface reveals a profound fear of illness and mortality
Eating disorder labels re-considered
Intersectionality and gendered assumptions
Learning from hands-on anatomy
Gratitude to donors for their invaluable role within medical education
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
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
Forget-Me-Not
Honouring each child’s life-cycle – however brief
Green Space, Deep Breath
A patient’s belief in Nature’s healing makes a powerful impact
Imagine my Pain
The uniqueness of pain and communication challenges
Deep Cleanse
A clinical conversation with positive impact
I Fixed his Clock
Pointillism used to consider eating disorders in the elderly
Sell-by Date
Exploring negative body-identity through textiles
On my level
Taking the lead from patients’ embodiment
Experiencing Facial Blindness
Creative explorations of facial processing
Waiting
Issues around supporting our elderly community highlighted by the Pandemic
Inside the Obesity Crisis
Re-framing weight-management
Acupuncture and chronic pain relief
Alternative medicines and debilitating invisible illness
The dynamic of familial care
An illuminating model of caring for loved ones
The Passing of Time
The fragility of identity in later years
Patterns of Anxiety
Mental health issues across lockdowns
10 Minutes
Time-pressured consultations
Confusion
In-depth observation of patients in hospital during the Pandemic offers deep learning
A surprisingly memorable online consultation
A patient’s spontaneous response makes a student’s day
Abdominal Portaiture
Intestinal sculptures reveal unique medical narratives
My Body – My Decision?
Women’s rights and life-changing medical interventions
Loving a missing lover
The emotional toll of grieving whilst caring for a life-partner
Chalk and Cheese
Individual difference in processing immediate experience
Tackling Menstruation Stigma
‘Natural’ bodily functions and Taboos
Conscious
A rare medical incident highlights the role of care within surgical intervention
Disconnected
The complexities of remote consultations
The Cap
A light-hearted spin on the unwelcome return to chemotherapy.
Waiting
Holding your nerve in Oncology waiting-rooms.
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
The Fabric of Being Human
Learning alongside recovering amputees causes the artist to question the fundamentals of traditional embodiment
The Shadowed Carer
The huge contribution of home-carers to society and their well-being is highlighted during a GP consultation
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients