Our Art Programme
Harmony, Creativity, Welcome, Hope is a wide-ranging programme of arts activities across both Grays Inn Road and Queen Square. The programme includes a number of new public artworks for the new building, that will stimulate debate and provide a lasting legacy, UCL Public Art are working in collaboration with academics, researchers, clinicians, professional services staff, patients and wider communities to create a programme to broaden knowledge and awareness of the ground-breaking neurological research that will be made possible by the new facility.
Annie Cattrell
Annie has been commissioned to make a series of major public artworks for the new site at Grays Inn Road
Freya Gabie
Freya has been commissioned to explore the unique history of the site itself and its significance as a hospital, creating an archive of research as well as public artworks
Jo Volley
Jo Volley has been commissioned to develop a new work for the public spaces in the building rooted in her research exploring colour and pigments
Arbor
Trellis: Arbor is a knowledge-exchange programme for staff and researchers of the Queen Square Institute of Neurology and artists and communities
Our art programme - part of UCL’s ongoing commitment to public art, across all its estates - forms an integral part of the site strategy’s ambition to unify patients, UCL’s academic and research communities and the wider communities around the site.
Working with a Public Art Steering Group made up of representatives from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, the UK Dementia Research Institute and the UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, the programme’s key artistic commissions include Annie Cattrell who is developing permanent artworks, and Freya Gabie who is undertaking a site history residency.
Pioneering women
A permanent memorial to Professor Anita Harding has been commissioned for the new building, as part of a public art project celebrating pioneering women neuroscientists
Everything is Connected
Read about our recent exhibition exploring our groundbreaking neurological research and our wide-ranging public art programme