GOSH Arts is the arts programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The live arts programme, art collection and temporary exhibitions inspire creativity, create welcoming environments, and offer meaningful and innovative cultural opportunities for communities both in and around the hospital.
GOSH Arts' work plays an essential role in enhancing the hospital experience. Engaging with visiting artists and having art developed in collaboration with the community integrated into their buildings helps to create less clinical environments, contributes to reducing stress and anxiety and creates space for reflection and exchange.
In the coming years GOSH Arts’ programming will be focused around two key areas, sustainability and community. It will be informed by the relationship between people and the natural world and will support the call for a more positive future which allows everyone to reconnect with nature and one another. Through their integrated art commissions and live arts programme they will create opportunities to nurture and support communities both in and around the hospital. As well as ongoing work with patients and families they will be encouraging staff to participate in creative activities as part of their working day, and for the first time taking the arts programme outside the hospital, engaging with the people who live, work and learn around GOSH.
