Umbrella's of Wellbeing 2019
Ombrello de Benessere 2019
A series of outdoor installations during Spring/Summer 2019 will comprise of umbrellas suspended with images of dancing figures, hanging mobile-like, underneath the canopy of the umbrella. The dancing figures represent care staff, alongside representations of what attributes combine to create the dance of caring persons under the umbrella of shared care. For further detail of the six C’s of nursing, refer to the link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/leadingchange/about/the-6cs/
These mobile air sculptures are visual metaphors for the dance of caring persons (Hardy and White, 2017) that creates an umbrella of universal care and protection of the fragile state of human health and wellbeing. When displayed in the outdoor settings, they bring added visual reference that allows for a moment of mindfulness, reflecting on the process of healing through the process of movement and interactive dance amongst the different elements under a canopy of caring.
Pathway to Nourishment at Bethlem Royal Hospital April 2019.
Pathway to Nourishment: An art installation to announce the first installation of
Umbrella’s of Wellbeing mobiles at the Bethlem Royal Hospital.
TheUmbrella’s of Wellbeingare representations of the interactions created between patients and their carers in the Dance of Caring Persons.
Interactions with movements of courage, compassion, communication, competency and commitmentwill create an umbrella of care under which the patient can recover.
The pathway to nourishment is marked out by a series of Umbrella’s of Wellbeing mobiles that trace / mark out a path between physical sustenance / nourishment provided here through the site of Bethlem’s canteen.
Mental stimulation and understandings / comprehensions available in the Bethlem Gallery and Museum of the Mind.
With the assistance from my Mum & Nieces and on my birthday )
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Umbrella's of Wellbeing travel to the Residential care Home at Reggio Emilia, Italy, May 2019. Where Xavier also presented his Art of Nursing Presentation.
Corto Blanco, Venice.
Hearts of Wellbeing at the heart of Maudsley Hospital, London. From June to December 2019.
Angels on Peckhem Rye
William Blake's angel-filled tree on Peckham Rye Where William Blake, at the age of 8, saw a vision of a tree "filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars."
Angels on Peckhem Rye
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00125vl
