Private View | Shape Shift | Hospital Rooms at The Fitzrovia Chapel

Join us at the Private View of 'Shape Shift' - a new exhibition hosted by Hospital Rooms in partnership with the Fitzrovia Chapel.

The show tells the stories of artworks from Hospital Rooms’ three-year project at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich, which commissioned 15 international artists – Sarah Dwyer, Errol Francis, Ghislaine Leung, Michael Landy, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Shepherd Manyika, Jade de Montserrat, Nengi Omuku, Ṣọlá Olúlòde, Fabian Peake, Heather Phillipson, Holly Sandiford, Dolly Sen, Mark Titchner, and Ken Nwadiogbu – to work with the hospital’s patients and staff, creating major artworks.

Through this process of collaboration, imagining and working, new and poetic dreams came into being, while personal, domestic, institutional and clinical narratives collided. This exhibition attempts to navigate these collisions and to generate further discussion. It is set within the walls of the Fitzrovia Chapel, a building where patients, families and staff would once come for calm, respite and sanctuary during busy and sometimes fraught hospital days and nights.

The Hellesdon Hospital Project was in partnership with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Supported by COAT Paints, Hauser & Wirth, Norwich University of Arts, and Arts Council England. Our cultural partners were Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery and the Sainsbury Centre.

Artists: Sarah Dwyer, Errol Francis, Michael Landy, Ghislaine Leung, Shepherd Manyika, Jade de Montserrat, Ken Nwadiogbu, Ṣọlá Olúlòde, Nengi Omuku, Fabian Peake, Heather Phillipson, Holly Sandiford, Dolly Sen, Mark Titchner, Rosa-Johan Uddoh.

Co-Curators: Sophie Bagge, Fenn Harris, Mark Jennings, Su Pashley, Jodie Rowe, Holly Sandiford, Nicola Simpson, Tim A Shaw, Tim Steer, Niamh White.

To find out more, go to: https://www.fitzroviachapel.org/series/shape-shift/