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A blue figure sits on grass with arms crossed over their knees amid tall green trees and lush foliage, suggesting a feeling of solitude or contemplation in a vibrant forest setting—an evocative scene perfect for an exhibition.

Ṣọlá Olúlòde, A Place of Comfort, (detail), 2024. Image © the artist and Hospital Rooms

Shape Shift Converse Rework

10am – 4pm Thursday 3 July 2025 – Sunday 27 July 2025

Hungate Medieval Art, Princes Street, Norwich, NR3 1AE

This co-creative exhibition at Hungate Medieval Art shares creative works resulting from a three-year collaborative project at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich.

Shape Shift Converse Rework is an exhibition that tells the stories of a three-year collaborative project at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich, which commissioned 15 international artists to work with patients and staff to create major artworks.

This exhibition has been informed by a research collaboration with Hospital Rooms, Norwich University of the Arts, and a Lived Experience Team of co-researchers who are evaluating this large-scale multi-site Arts Intervention at Hellesdon Hospital.

In a series of monthly workshops using creative, arts-based and material research methods, the lived experience co-researchers have engaged with a creative, critical and embodied retelling of the old and new hospital spaces by those who have and will live there. These artistic outcomes are represented at Hungate Medieval Art, inviting the audience to use all their senses to experience the personal and the public transformation and impact of the arts in mental health hospital spaces.

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

Exhibition Information

3 – 15 July – 10am-4pm (1pm-4pm on Sundays)

19 – 27 July – Weekends only (Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 1pm-4pm)

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, Tim A Shaw, Nicola Simpson, Tim Steer, Niamh White.

Public Opening

Wednesday 2 July
6pm – 8pm
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