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The Friends of University College London Hospital, aside from providing support, assistance and practical provision across the hospital's many sites, are also key supporters and providers of art in the hospital's many settings; giving financial backing for the hospital’s on-going programme of exhibitions in the Street gallery and crucially providing backing for individual art practioneers to work with patients in the ward environment. |
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They are keen advocates of the idea that art can have a role in the treating, healing and rehabilitation process and fund a number of important initiatives around the hospital. Like many organisations that rely upon charitable donations to continue their work they are feeling the squeeze as the current on-going financial crisis affects donations. |
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The Friend’s recently asked supporters to hold tea or coffee mornings
in their own homes to help raise funds for one non-art related project,
the seemingly mundane yet vital task of providing bedside and window
curtains for two wards in the |
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We thought it might be a good idea, as people connected to both the art
community and the hospital to organise a small event to help the Friends
raise these funds.
Not quite into tea mornings as such we have opted for a variation on a theme and have organised two mad hatter’s tea parties, one for children and one for adults. |
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We invited a number of contemporary artists to take a few moments of their time to consider, quick as a flash, Carrol's masterpiece and then draw, paint, print, photograph or collage an image based on their consideration of Alice's tea party. We now aim to sell the donated framed works for £50 each at the adults tea party. |
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Nothing is signed, the work anonymous - purchased only on the grounds that the buyer likes the work and wants to help support the Friends of UCLH. Anything unsold we plan to hang in the Children's playroom in the hospital. |
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