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.