Past projects

Heart and Mind >> 1998

Heart and Mind was a collaboration between Pavilion and The Leeds Teaching Hospitals as part of Photo98 Public Sightings programme.

The Heart and Mind project saw three site-specific commissioned pieces installed at Leeds General Infirmary: Take Heart Roof Garden, Leeds’ first roof garden, Every Picture Tells a Story, a series of photographs displayed in a link corridor at the hospital and Car Park Greeting, an image installation at the entrance to the hospitals multi-storey car park.

Take Heart Roof Garden
Neil Swanson and Susan Trangmar
Take Heart Roof Garden was a garden on the roof of the Jubilee Building of Leeds General Infirmary. Created by landscape designer Neil Swanson and informed by the thinking of photographer Susan Trangmar, this was Leeds’ first roof garden. It took its aesthetic and horticultural inspiration from costal landscapes through its plants and materials. The garden was for patients and visitors and the seaside is a place traditionally associated with convalescence.

Every Picture Tells a Story
Janet Hodgson
Every Picture Tell a Story was an installation of art work in the Gilbert Scott link corridor at Leeds General Infirmary. The work consisted of 23 light boxes of surreal life size photographs of objects derived from stories of hospital life told by hospital staff, placed in the architectural details of the corridor including: chickens, canaries, an old fire bucket, a pair of gloves.

Car Park Greeting
Pirerre D’Avoine and Catherine Elwes
Car Park Greeting was created by architect Pirerre D’Avoine and video artist Catherine Elwes at the entrance to hospitals multi-storey car park on Calverley Street. They saw the car park entrance as significant in representing the first point of contact with the hospital and explored how an impersonal building might greet its visitors. Their response was to create a monumental secular image of a woman and child, their hands raised in a gesture of greeting, on a banner seven-storeys high over the entrance to the car park.