Have Strength Find Peace/BE
- Submitting institution
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Norwich University of the Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- NUA-CR-01
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Woodlands, Ipswich; Northside House, Norwich
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- -
- Year of first exhibition
- URL
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https://nua.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17333
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- The installation of BE in Northside House, a forensic mental health unit in Norwich, was planned for November 2020 but delayed until March 2021 by Covid-19 restrictions. A public exhibition of the work produced for the Northside House project was planned in the EAST gallery, Norwich from 23 November to 19 December 2020 but cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions. The work was exhibited online.
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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A - Created and Contested Territories
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The works were commissioned for two mental health units in the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust for projects led by the arts charity Hospital Rooms involving a number of artists. Hospital Rooms initially approached Rowe as a result of his 2014 artwork for Nuffield Health Hospital, Cambridge.
The first project was realised in 2018 for the Woodlands Mental Health Unit, Ipswich. The second was for Northside House, a forensic mental health unit in Norwich, the installation of which was delayed until March 2021 by Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.
The research processes for both projects involved a series of site visits and consultations with service providers (staff) and service users (patients) of the units, including workshops for staff and creative workshops for patients, held by Rowe. These directly informed the subject matter and concept of Rowe’s work for each project, particularly using patient responses to workshop materials and tasks. The specific location within each unit also determined the nature of the work and involved discussion with staff and patients about the use of the space.
Research also involved location images and the creation of screen-printing inks from organic materials specific to location. This is an ongoing element of Rowe’s practice, being both conceptual/poetic and having practical/social/ecological applications.
The co-production element of these works, involving staff and patients from mental health units in their conception, development, and location, is innovative and empowering for those individuals as well as enhancing the quality of the spaces of the units they live and work in. Moreover, the works represent what can be achieved within the severe restrictions and compliances required for working and installing artworks in mental health units.
The site-specific works are permanent installations within the mental health units. They were also publicly disseminated in exhibitions and on the Hospital Rooms website.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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