Anyone who has ever visited, stayed or worked in Rookwood Hospital cannot help but have noticed the wonderful trees that grow so abundantly in the grounds. This spring a group of artists, volunteers, patients and NHS staff members took part in the ‘Through The Trees’ arts for wellbeing project, and were given the opportunity to … Continue reading Rookwood’s patients explore a treasury of trees on the hospital grounds
Month: June 2019
Cardiff and Vale Health Board are looking for a creative and Gallery co-ordinator to join our fast paced and expanding team. The ideal candidate will have significant experience within the Arts and Healthcare Sectors, including the management of budgets and significant practical experience of managing a gallery. The post holder will be essential in the … Continue reading Job Opportunity: Hearth Gallery Coordinator
Melanie Wotton, Hearth Gallery Coordinator at the time of the exchange, shares her experience as a delegate of the British Council's UK-Italy 2020 season trip to Rome. In February this year, the British Council selected The Hearth Gallery, University Hospital Llandough, to be part of the British Delegation to Rome as part of the UK … Continue reading British Council Cultural Exchange to Rome: Hearth Gallery Blog
Rose McDonald recently responded to a call out for artists from the Arts for Health and Wellbeing Team, and the team felt that she sounded like the perfect person to paint a mural in the new Paediatric Phlebotomy area in Barry Hospital. Rose is a recent Fine Art Graduate from Cardiff Metropolitan University, and now plans to … Continue reading New mural for Children at Barry Hospital
"These works explore the tension between our personal relationships with objects and the raw physicality of the object itself. As an artist I cannot place a sense of use or control onto an 'object', this is because it both draws me into its existence in which I have no control and takes a part of … Continue reading The Weight of Objects by Bethan Gibbs
The arts team at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is going from strength to strength following the creation of the Arts Fund in December 2018. Arts for Health and Wellbeing, the arts programme at Cardiff and Vale UHB is delivered by a multi-disciplinary team and made possible by the funding we receive from the … Continue reading Arts for Health and Wellbeing publish first six-month report
As part of the our celebrations at the Urdd, Cardiff and Vale UHB partnered with the Makers Guild Wales on a cross-site arts project, “Get Well Soon”. The project celebrated Welsh culture and language, Health & Wellbeing and enabled younger people to connect with some of the more vulnerable people in our communities and to … Continue reading Children get crafty at the Urdd to send good wishes to Cardiff and Vale inpatients
