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This document is about validating the importance of creative expression of people who are living within a hospital context. It is based on the assumption that art is about values, beliefs, identity, expression and communication and as such should be a fundamental right of every individual, regardless of whether they are in hospital or not.
This document is about validating the importance of creative expression of people who are living within a hospital context. It is based on the assumption that art is about values, beliefs, identity, expression and communication and as such should be a fundamental right of every individual, regardless of whether they are in hospital or not.
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Claire Simpson<br />
SENIOR ARTS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER<br />
GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL<br />
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I look at Art in Hospital in the same way I look at<br />
any professional visual arts organisation working<br />
in the city. I don’t pigeon hole them within a<br />
social context because they’re all professional<br />
artists who are developing their own practice at<br />
the same time as sharing their skills and training<br />
with a particularly venerable section of the<br />
community. I don’t see how you can make a rigid<br />
distinction between this kind of work and any<br />
other professional practice. I imagine the work<br />
the artists do in the Glasgow hospitals feeds<br />
into their practice in the same way as any other<br />
important life experience feeds their practice.
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