CONNECT was delivered by arts consultants Willis Newson in partnership with Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Trust’s ongoing arts programme Onward Arts, architects BDP and construction partner Laing O’Rourke.
The CONNECT team worked closely with partners and stakeholders across the city and county including Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton University, Photoworks and a range of local artists.
University Hospital Sussex Foundation Trust
University Hospital Sussex Foundation Trust (UHSussex) is one of the largest NHS hospital trusts in the south of England.
UHSussex is an NHS foundation trust which provides clinical services to people in Brighton and Hove, parts of East Sussex and West Sussex.
We run seven hospitals across Brighton & Hove and West Sussex. The mission of University Hospitals Sussex – what we are striving to achieve – is to provide ‘excellent care every time’.
Onward Arts
Onward Arts is the ongoing arts programme for University Hospitals Sussex Foundation Trust. Through the use of the arts, they seek to improve the experience of patients, visitors and staff and create a healing hospital environment for all.
Passionate about arts in health, they advocate the value of integrating the arts into the culture of the Trust and deliver high quality, patient-centred, arts projects in partnership with the communities the hospital serves.
Willis Newson
Willis Newson is one of the UK’s leading arts and health agencies. They use art to create positive, welcoming and engaging health & social care environments. Willis Newson manage projects from conception to installation, integrating art into the design of large capital developments as well as smaller refurbishment projects in hospitals, care homes and health centres.
They have particular expertise in the field of public art commissioning, along with experience of using art to create caring environments for; children and young people, older patients, cancer care, mental health, residential dementia care and more.
Laing O’Rourke
Laing O’Rourke is a privately owned, internationally focused engineering enterprise with world-class capabilities spanning the entire client value chain.
Laing O’Rourke operate an integrated business model comprising the full range of engineering, construction and asset management services delivering single-source solutions for some of the world’s most prestigious public and private organisations.
Brighton and Hove City Council
Brighton and Hove City Council is the local authority of the city of Brighton and Hove with the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It provides a full range of local government services including Council Tax billing, libraries, social services, processing planning applications, waste collection and disposal, and it is a local education authority.
Photoworks
Photoworks is a national development agency for photography. Photoworks’ programme includes commissions, new writing, participation and exceptional projects including the national Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, Photoworks Annual and Brighton Photo Biennial.
Photoworks aim is to connect outstanding artists with audiences and to champion talent and ambition.
University of Brighton
A part of Brighton since 1859, the university is a diverse, multidisciplinary institution with 20,700 students studying across five campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings.
The University is defined by a commitment to social relevance, steering their curriculum and research projects away from the ivory tower and toward the fulfilment of public good, based on the shared values of engagement, diversity, participation, collaboration and sustainability.
BDP
BDP is a major international practice of architects, designers, engineers and urbanists. They create outstanding places for people.
Originally established in 1961 as Building Design Partnership, BDP now has studios across the world. These combine local knowledge with the vision, values and infrastructure of a major award winning practice.