During Gill Curry’s residency at the Sid Watkins Building, at The Walton Centre, simple monoprinting techniques were taught to participants at the outpatient clinic using gelli plates. Participants used flowers, leaves and stamps to make the prints, which were then turned into cards, bookmarks and artwork for the wall.
Participants on the residential ward experimented with linocut printing and clay printing with shells. Painting techniques were also taught using brush pens and watercolour pencils using a variety of nature photographs to stimulate and inspire.
Gill Curry created a lino print triptych inspired by her residency workshops with patients and staff in the Sid Watkins Building on the Complex Rehabilitation and the Outpatients clinic during May to July 2019.
‘Flight’ by Gill Curry (2019)
“The triptych ‘Flight’ celebrates the uplifting and in turn, humbling experience I had whilst working with the patients and staff at the Walton Centre. The theme of nature, bringing the outside natural world into the hospital environment, energised the workshops and brought patients, staff and facilitators together to ‘fly’ in the face of complex medical needs and celebrate together the resilience of the human spirit.”
– Gill Curry