The lasted commission from Alison Little to be sited at Aintree Hospital in Liverpool. Alison was commissioned by Partia at Aintree Hospitals to produce two paintings in fitting with the hospital’s direction around nature to be sited in a newly built relatives room. Under the guidelines, she produced two stunning square box canvas’ featuring a wildflower meadow and a starling in its natural habitat.
Partia has been at Aintree Hospital for the last ten years; Promoting Arts in Aintree, being its core objective. They promote art from Visual to performance, craft to musical practice with patients, carers, staff and the wider community within the NHS setting. The non-traditional gallery spaces are subject to a larger footfall than the more conventional settings of Public and commercial art venues. Partia organises exhibitions, performance opportunities, workshops within the health setting and the commission artwork for the pro dominantly new buildings of the NHS Foundation Trust. Through the successes of their arts led ventures and positive partnership working they are highly regarded in the field of Art and Health.
The relative room where the commission is to be sited are used by the medical staff with they have bad news for the patients relative, this may be that a loved one has passed away or that a fatality is imminent. The decor of the room is to encourage a welcoming environment looking towards a domestic setting rather than the harshness of office furniture and the angular structure of filing systems more common pre-millennium. The artwork is intended to be in keeping with the hospital’s general policies, at Aintree the theme of nature is commonplace. The intention of the paintings is to be a non-specific place, due to the relative future actions may be to visit the place visualised in the artwork and this would look to remind them of receiving grave news. In equal respects only original artwork is commissioned as a reproduction print would be likely to trigger negative connotations.
Alison works predominantly in squares for her wall mounted pieces. The wildflower meadow was produced as an uplifting image with a far-reaching vanishing point. The variety of colours were selected to show an array of flowers, a few simply red flashes to indicate poppies ensuring the style was directed away from photo realism to avoid any symbolic meaning. The starling image is again set in a non-specific location, a painterly approach to the foliage and bird feathers directs to viewer away from specific nature based memories.
Hung in location Alison hopes to offer some solitude in a time of sorrow for those who have lost one’s dear to their hearts.
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