Hello from our Project Assistant.

I started working with GHAT in 2019 as a volunteer Gallery Assistant in The Suttie Arts Space. This gave me the confidence to apply for the new Project Assistant role in March 2022. The first project I assisted on was ‘Introducing the artists’, an exhibition of GHAT...

Co-Create – Designed with the community it serves.

Two commissions available to develop a sustainable arts and well-being model in rural areas. Co-create - an inclusive arts and well-being initiative designed with the community it serves.  Co-Create is a project to support well-being for people within Huntly and the...

Foresterhill: Past, Present and Future

Micro Commissions for Emerging Artists based in Grampian and Moray. Four emerging artists based in the North East of Scotland will be commissioned to work on a project with Lead Artist, Adrian Reid, and NHS Grampian Archives to respond to the current building work at...

Baird & ANCHOR Arts Project

In June 2014, the Scottish Government announced an investment for two new health facilities on the Foresterhill Health Campus in Aberdeen. The plans included a new hospital to replace the existing Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, with the inclusion of breast screening,...

‘Life After COVID’ outdoor installation

Sat 27th February 2021 For three months, we transformed the walls of The Suttie Arts Space into one big diary as we asked NHS Staff and visitors to share their thoughts on life after COVID for our exhibition Sayings in the Suttie, including the things that helped them...

Shared Collective Heritage

Shared Collective Heritage (SCH) is a project funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Aberdeen City Council and the Rayne Foundation. SCH will preserve and celebrate artistic heritage that connects people and place in the North East of Scotland. Our aim is to ensure...

Amplify

Amplify is a project of ambitious participatory arts activity based in NHS Grampian (NHSG) hospital sites. The programme of work is designed to support GHAT’s vision – the pursuit of excellence in arts within healthcare practice, regionally integrated and embedded,...

Inverurie Hospital Garden

‘The importance of physical activity was most acute for volunteers who were unemployed and said going there was better than being “stuck indoors” or “doing nothing”. Like volunteers suffering depression, gardening motivated them to be active and provided distraction...

North of Scotland Brain and Spine Centre – Aberdeen Neurosurgery

In 2019 GHAT was asked by the Neurosurgery Department, located at ward 205 in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, to help them with a logo for the North of Scotland Brain and Spine Centre, and design a series of educational posters explaining the history of Neurosurgery in...

Feelgood Friday

Feelgood Friday webpage and Newsletter was a response to COVID 19. GHAT created a one-stop-shop of online content aimed at NHSG staff, that is easy to access with minimum fuss and helps with downtime during the busy shifts. The project was a curated webpage on the...

Greenferns Health and Care Centre Arts and Environment Strategy

Greenferns Health and Care Centre Arts and Environment Strategy - Supporting Documents

Organ Donation Artwork

The project was completed and installed in December 2019. Installation of the sculpture took place over 3 nights in December 2019. his project was funded by The Organ Donation Committee.

New Commission Opportunity for Inverurie Community Hospital

GHAT has a new opportunity for an artist with an interest in horticulture to work on the Inverurie Community Hospital site. Deadline for applications - Monday 15th April After the success of GHAT’s Resonate:Disseminate project, which has now come to...

Recovery Resource Centre, Royal Cornhill Hospital

In 2017 staff at the Recovery Resource Centre (RRC) in Royal Cornhill Hospital asked GHAT to assist with a project that looked at the environment of the unit. They were looking for a solution to create a more inviting environment through the use of colour,...

The Suttie Arts Space FFC-MRI commission opportunity

GHAT are pleased to announce an open call for an artist to investigate the work currently being developed by the IDentIFY research project and its link to Mark-1, the world’s first full body MRI scanner, which is on display at The Suttie Arts Space,...

Neo Natal Unit, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital

In 2016 GHAT was approached by the staff of the Neo Natal Unit to help them change the look and feel of the unit. Lynne Strachan, from Curious Cranberry, was commissioned to work with a core team of staff, which included a member of Friends of The Special...

Resonate : Disseminate

In 2016 GHAT started a 2 year programme of arts activity within Dr Gray’s Hospital and Inverurie Community Hospital

Mark-1 The world’s first whole-body MRI Scanner

The worlds first full-body MRI Scanner is on permanent display at The Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The story of MRI began in Aberdeen in the early 1960s, when a young researcher named John Mallard studied the magnetic properties of electrons in tissue...

Peedie Sea Centre and Balfour Hospital, Orkney

This project was based in the two facilities in Orkney which form the venues for the delivery of Children’s services. The arts project was developed to enhance the environment of the children’s spaces using good design and artwork. Artists Tumim and...

Department of Paediatric Dentistry, University of Aberdeen Dental School and Hospital

In 2012 GHAT worked with The ARCHIE Foundation and University of Aberdeen to commission Susan T Grant to work with the staff in the new Dental School which was being built at the time. The project was to make the Department of Paediatric Dentistry a...

The Health Village Arts Project

99 Harebells by Laurie Clark

Clinical Genetics Centre

Keiko Mukaide was commissioned to work with staff and patients of the Clinical Genetics Centre to refurbish their department in Ashgrove House. From the initial consultation Keiko recognised that a way finding strategy from the main entrance of...

Emergency Care Centre : Light and Life

Works by several Artists and Designers for the new Emergency Care Centre

Chalmers Hospital, Banff

Interior and exterior works created for Chalmers Hospital by Mary Bourne, Lynne Strachan, Nicole Gildea and Margot Henderson.

Davan Ward: Royal Cornhill Hospital

In January 2009 GHAT was asked if it could help with dementia friendly improvements that were being made in Davan Ward. Over the next year we met regularly with the clinical team in the Department of Old Age Psychiatry to discuss how art could be used to...

Integrated Drug Service, Timmermarket, Aberdeen

In 2010, the new Integrated Drug Service premises was under construction at the Timmermarket, Aberdeen. Timmermarket was purpose built to provide accommodation that would bring the community based team together on one site. This commission centered...

Royal Cornhill Hospital Photography Project

In January 2004, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust established an open commission in order for photographers/artists to create a series of photographic images recording physical aspects of the old granite building at Royal Cornhill Hospital, commonly referred...

Projects

GHAT works closely with NHSG on new capital build projects and the refurbishment of existing NHSG buildings across the North East of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland.

GHAT works hand-in-hand with NHSG to commission local and national artists to work with staff and project teams to design environments that are both relevant and sympathetic to the context of each area, its users and day to day function. This can range from a very practical form of advising on colour selection or rethinking at the wayfinding as a means of identifying a ward or clinic, through to developing an arts strategy for an entire hospital. The commissions can include site-specific sculptures, bespoke furniture, or working directly with project architects on screening or cladding solutions required by NHSG safety and privacy policies.

Contact Tamsin Greenlaw at tamsin.greenlaw@nhs.scot

01224 551776