Diagnoses
Medicine has a talent for typology – for taking a collection of disturbing tests and symptoms and synthesising them into a unitary diagnosis. OOOH!! has many artworks that reflect on the travails of particular diagnoses of mind and body.
Selected Artworks
OOOH!! can be used to illuminate our understand of diagnoses as diverse as trigeminal neuralgia, autism, cardiomyopathy, dementia , anorexia and pemphigus vulgaris. It is pleasing too that a majority of artworks tackle themes that transcend any particular diagnosis.
OOOH!! Search & Filter
Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works dealing with a particular diagnosis. The dropdown list “Diagnoses” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Specialties.
Medical Dilemma
An elderly woman in acute pain, balancing the level of pain-killers in question
Sun-Spun
The poet observes a child with autism absorbed in play and feels privileged to be invited to join her world
Hearts
Ninety-two paper hearts to represent the loss of the artist’s father to heart disease
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’
Bubble
A hospital visit to a friend profoundly altered bodily and mentally whilst being treated for an eating disorder
From steroids to self healing – a patient’s journey
A daughter’s insight into her mother’s healing process and an exploration into the concept of self-healing and holism
Diagnoses
Medicine has a talent for typology – for taking a collection of disturbing tests and symptoms and synthesising them into a unitary diagnosis. OOOH!! has many artworks that reflect on the travails of particular diagnoses of mind and body.
OOOH!! can be used to illuminate our understand of diagnoses as diverse as trigeminal neuralgia, autism, cardiomyopathy, dementia , anorexia and pemphigus vulgaris. It is pleasing too that a majority of artworks tackle themes that transcend any particular diagnosis.
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.
The Aching Soul
Chronic emotional trauma makes its mark
Under Pressure
Medical decision-making when personal health risks are high.
The Grip of Alcoholism
Turning the tide of addiction
Deep Cleanse
A clinical conversation with positive impact
Inside the Obesity Crisis
Re-framing weight-management
Patterns of Anxiety
Mental health issues across lockdowns
Virtual Fog
Reflections around the impact of Covid-19 on medical education reveals a surprising outcome.
Beneath the Dura Mater
The balancing act of self-care and caring for others viewed from both physiological and psychological perspectives.
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
The Role of Technology in Healthcare
When faced with the choice between traditional healthcare professionals and new artificial intelligence – who would you trust to be in charge of your care?
The complex mind
A myriad of challenges to individualised, holistic care surface once mental stability is compromised
Collaborative Heart Patchwork
Thoughts around arts for health in GP surgeries from Suuad – a patient-artist and poet
Mum
A patient artist’s New Year goal to be ‘a champion mum’
Eating disorder labels re-considered
Intersectionality and gendered assumptions
Behind the Wheel
A patient guides holistic practice
Clinical Curiosity and Compassion
The balance of maintaining a patient-focus within clinical learnings
I Fixed his Clock
Pointillism used to consider eating disorders in the elderly
A dancer re-frames ‘disability’
Dancing ‘with’ difference
Accessibility Issues: turning the tables
Barriers to basic, everyday-life
Disconnected
The complexities of remote consultations
Waiting
Holding your nerve in Oncology waiting-rooms.
The Fabric of Being Human
Learning alongside recovering amputees causes the artist to question the fundamentals of traditional embodiment
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients
Hospital: A Living Architecture
Appreciation of hospital care by a close relative causes a student to consider this holistic clinical community
Curiosity
A student’s insight into the sensitive dialogue within consultation places due weight on the gifts of genuine authentic connection in healthcare
A message to our future doctors
A place for clinicians showing their emotions to patients
HEAVY WORDS: Stories From The Cervix
A Bristol art exhibition raises awareness of women’s health issues and triggers cross-community dialogue
Who am I, behind the bars?
The urgent need for holistic care within a fragmented prison system
Flowering Sorrow
A creative interpretation of living with loss
Green Space, Deep Breath
A patient’s belief in Nature’s healing makes a powerful impact
Broken Heart Syndrome Unravelled
The script of a patient’s heart
Acupuncture and chronic pain relief
Alternative medicines and debilitating invisible illness
Tackling Menstruation Stigma
‘Natural’ bodily functions and Taboos
The Cap
A light-hearted spin on the unwelcome return to chemotherapy.
Identity: Crisis
Student creative pieces from the 2020 Intercalated B.A. in Medical Humanities
The Shadowed Carer
The huge contribution of home-carers to society and their well-being is highlighted during a GP consultation
Giving and Receiving
Donorship – a circle of trust within medical education
To be true to one another in the good times and in bad…
Hearts connect to maintain the pulse of recovery
Awesome
The artist returns to the charge of birth and re-positions herself as creatively contributing to the shape of her future
Chispa
‘Returning to life’ more fully through the engagement in the arts
Reassurance
The vital and grounding power of a doctor’s touch at pivotal moments