As part of a large-scale year long collaboration project with Bath Spa University, Art at the Heart have welcomed students across all years and departments to respond to a simple but effective live brief; to improve healthcare with art and design. Bath Spa students have spent the best part of the year responding to this brief by exploring their own art practice within a healthcare context, whilst respecting a sensitive environment that sees over 500,000 visitors enter its doors every year and adhering to strict health and safety regulations.
The result is an exhilarant multidisciplinary exhibition covering a range of topics such as history & heritage, time and memory.'
During the 18th century, people in Europe had a 'problematic and anxiety-ridden' fear of water in relation to cleaning the body. They believed ‘full immersion in water was thought to impair vision, provoke tooth ache, and make the face turn pale’ and so deliberately avoided it.
I worked directly onto the window, exposing the delicate intricate, and surreal forms of illustrations relating to the fear of water to viewers both inside and outside. The fragments of imagery capture the fear and the avoidance of water as well as the embrace of it, the window giving the ability for shadows to form on the corridor floor; resemblingthe warped appearance of being underwater.