Question 1

About the new Tolworth Hospital

Accepted Answer

The new Tolworth Hospital has been designed to provide a welcoming and therapeutic environment that supports the wellbeing of patients, visitors and staff. Its architecture, landscape and interior spaces have been carefully considered to create places that feel calm, accessible and connected to nature.The creative programme is intended to become an integral part of this environment, contributing to the identity and experience of the building rather than simply adding artwork to completed spaces.We recognise that people may experience the hospital during very different moments in their lives. Someone may be arriving for an appointment, beginning treatment, returning after a previous experience, visiting a loved one or simply coming to work. People may be feeling calm, hopeful, anxious, uncertain or distressed.Creative responses should therefore be developed with sensitivity and care, recognising the wide range of emotional, sensory and cognitive experiences of the people who will encounter them.

Question 2

A connected creative programme

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Art for Tolworth is being developed as a connected programme rather than a collection of unrelated artworks.The programme is launching with three artist opportunities: Primary Arrival, Secondary Arrival and Storytelling & Co-design, ‘The Narrator’.Alongside these first commissions, we are developing further opportunities for creative practice across the hospital, including artist residencies within the wards, artwork across shared and connecting spaces, an evolving Art for Tolworth Library, and work within the hospital’s courtyards and gardens. These strands will develop over time, with further opportunities announced as their scope, funding and commissioning approach are confirmed.Not every opportunity needs to operate in the same way or be delivered at the same time. Some may result in permanent commissioned artworks, while others could develop through residencies, participation, existing artworks, changing displays, collaboration between practitioners or relationships with other commissions.Artists should therefore be open to dialogue with other practitioners. There may be opportunities for ideas, processes or artworks developed through one commission to connect with another, helping Art for Tolworth develop a coherent identity without requiring every artwork to share a single visual language.

Question 3

The Community Brain & the Trust

Accepted Answer

The Community Brain is a Kingston-based Community Interest Company specialising in community-led creative projects, placemaking and public art.Appointed to lead Art for Tolworth on behalf of South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, The Community Brain is supporting the programme through artist commissioning, fundraising, engagement, co-production and overall project management.The programme builds on The Community Brain’s existing work and relationships in Tolworth, supporting connections between commissioned artists, local communities and the hospital.

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