Children’s Space aims to create a welcoming environment for young patients at NHS Forth Valley Royal Hospital. Visual interventions have been developed in a creative collaboration between visual artist Sharon Quigley and designer Andrew McGregor. Imagery has been conceived through consultation and co-participatory projects with staff, patients and families on the Children’s Ward at Forth Valley Royal.

Over the next two weeks, corridors, waiting areas, windows, bulk heads and treatment rooms, in Post Operative Care, A&E, the Children’s Ward and the Paediatric Treatment and Assessment unit, will be transformed with colourful imagery, drawn directly from the environment surrounding the hospital, alluding to both growth and renewal. These artworks will be accompanied throughout by brightly coloured Audio Bird Boxes and Kaleidoscopic Bird Boxes.

Children’s ward entrance and audio bird box

Bubbles and Clouds for A&E and Assessment and Treatment Unit

Clouds floating on the way to theatre

Egg hunt and bird spotting on the way the way to theatre

Flocking birds lead to Children’s Ward and Assessment Unit

A little nest in A&E treatment room

The Words of Birds in the Children’s ward waiting area

Fluffy clouds and ripples in the Children’s ward waiting area

A little wren sings on the way to theatre

Little birds are nesting in the Children’s Ward corridor

Speech bubbles and clouds for the Nurses stations

Ripples in the Children’s Ward waiting area and a kaleidoscopic bird box.

Egg Hunt and bird spotting on the way to theatre