Documented installations

Date

1993

Material

Steel

Scale

Given as 18 m by the hospital charity

Setting

Indoor atrium, spanning three floors

Commissioning

Hospital arts programme established at the outset of the capital project

Consultation

Not published. The commissioning account describes a direct relationship between a clinician and the artist.

Sources conflict on both the title and the height. CW+ gives 18 m and the title The Acrobat. The archival record of the hospital's arts programme describes a 54-foot steel sculpture spanning three floors, titled Acrobatic Dancer. Fifty-four feet is approximately 16.5 m. Neither figure should be quoted without confirmation from CW+.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• CW+, Our charity
• CW+, Hospital art collection
• Wellcome Collection, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Arts: Artist contracts

Date

1993

Material

Suspended mobile

Scale

Dimensions not published; recorded as the artist's largest project to date

Setting

Suspended in the ground-floor atrium

Commissioning

Hospital arts programme established at the outset of the capital project

Consultation

Not published.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Public Statues and Sculpture Association, Tucker, Sian
• Foster MW et al. PLoS One 2025;20(8):e0328215, Fig 4

Date

2007

Material

Stainless steel letters and stone

Scale

Height not published; a seated figure resting on a five-ton boulder

Setting

Main entrance of the pavilion

Commissioning

Institutional art programme with a budget line per building, supplemented by private donation

Consultation

Not published. The curatorial rationale is documented in detail.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Finkel J et al. Contemporary art in medicine: the Cleveland Clinic art collection. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther.
• Cleveland Clinic, Our Art Collection
• Karnik M, Printz B, Finkel J. HERD 2014;7(3):60-77

Date

2019

Material

Responsive moving sculpture

Scale

Dimensions not published

Setting

Indoor, at the heart of the research centre

Commissioning

Art strategy developed alongside the architects and clinical champions during design, not after completion

Consultation

Developed through conversations with researchers based at the centre.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Random International: Kinds of Life (2019)
• Art UK, Enhancing visitor experience through art at Great Ormond Street Hospital
• GOSH Arts, Art Collection

Date

2024

Material

Metal-coated sculpture; supplied catalogue describes a body incorporating recycled PETG.

Scale

220 cm high, 80 cm diameter

Setting

Exterior, hospital entrance, on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue

Commissioning

Direct institutional commission, initiated by the hospital's OB-GYN service

Consultation

Not systematically. The commission originated with clinicians.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Petrides Public Sculpture, catalogue reference PPS·O.01

Date

2024, installed 2026

Material

Brass coating over a body of resin and sustainable materials

Scale

Dimensions depend on the edition; confirm against the installation record.

Setting

Exterior, hospital entrance

Commissioning

Artist donation, installed April 2026

Consultation

Not systematically.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Petrides Public Sculpture, catalogue reference PPS·O.06

Date

2000; Tinker Bell added 2005

Material

Bronze

Scale

The Peter Pan figure is recorded as a four-foot statue (approximately 122 cm); Tinker Bell, on his raised hand, has been described as London's smallest statue

Setting

Exterior, outside the hospital on Great Ormond Street; temporarily relocated from November 2023 during construction of the Children's Cancer Centre, to return to the new main entrance

Commissioning

Commissioned by the hospital, whose relationship with the character is financial as well as sentimental: J M Barrie gifted the Peter Pan rights to the hospital in 1929, and a special provision of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 grants it royalties in perpetuity

Consultation

Not published.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Art UK, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell (with plaque transcriptions)
• GOSH Charity, The Peter Pan story
• Great Ormond Street Hospital, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell fly away for now (2023)

Date

1954

Material

Cast bronze

Scale

28 feet (approximately 8.5 m), 6,900 pounds, per Mayo Clinic's own publications

Setting

Originally mounted on the north face of the Mayo Building; relocated in August 2000 to the Nathan Landow Atrium of the Gonda Building

Commissioning

Institutional art programme: selected artists were invited to Rochester, briefed on themes, and their sketches approved by the Building Committee and the Board of Governors

Consultation

Not in the modern sense; the historical record documents committee approval rather than occupant consultation.

Sources vary between 27 and 28 feet and between 6,500 and 6,900 pounds. The figures used here are those in Mayo Clinic's own publications.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Mayo Clinic Alumni Association, Art through the ages: a history of art at Mayo Clinic
• Man and Freedom has a new home. Mayo Clin Proc. 2001 (doi:10.1016/S0025-6196(12)60002-0)

Date

2005–2013

Material

Bronze

Scale

Fourteen sculptures; intermediate works range from about 5 m to 11 m, and the final newborn figure reaches 14 m (46 ft). The group weighs 216 tonnes

Setting

Outdoors along the roadway at the entrance to a hospital for women and children; covered from public view shortly after the 2013 unveiling and re-revealed in November 2018

Commissioning

Commissioned through Qatar Museums for the Sidra Medicine campus.

Consultation

No public consultation with hospital users has been reported.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Qatar Museums, The Miraculous Journey by Damien Hirst
• Visit Qatar, The Miraculous Journey
• CNN Style, Damien Hirst's giant uterus sculptures re-emerge at Qatar hospital (2018)
• Artnet News, Damien Hirst's fetus monuments return to view in Doha (2018)

Date

1896

Material

Carrara marble, carved from a single block

Scale

10 feet 6 inches (approximately 3.2 m), per Johns Hopkins Medicine's own account

Setting

Centre of the rotunda beneath the dome of the Billings Administration Building, facing the Broadway entrance — the first object a person entering the hospital encounters

Commissioning

Philanthropic gift solicited from the platform at the hospital's opening. Spence chose the setting himself. A copy of Thorvaldsen's Christus, made for the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen

Consultation

No consultation process is recorded; the donor selected the location.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Johns Hopkins Medicine, How The Johns Hopkins Hospital was built
• Johns Hopkins Medicine, Hope, healing and a 122-year legacy (2018)
• The Baltimore Sun, 'The Divine Healer' (1996)

Date

2011

Material

Steel, glass-fibre and carbon fibre, with kinetic elements and a control system

Scale

14 m tall; 14 × 10 × 6 m overall, per the artist's own project record

Setting

The full height of the five-storey atrium, as the centrepiece of the internal concourse the hospital calls Main Street

Commissioning

Commissioned within the capital project for the new hospital, integrated with the architecture (Bates Smart) and tied to a named in-house arts programme

Consultation

Not published in the sources located.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Alexander Knox, Creature — project record
• The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Premier unveils hospital's state-of-the-art 'Creature' (2011)
• IndesignLive, Royal Children's Hospital by BLBS

Date

2021

Material

3D-printed discs on a steel frame

Scale

Sources give differing heights; confirm with the artist.

Setting

Children’s Garden

Commissioning

Commissioned by a corporate foundation through a competitive selection among five emerging South African artists, then donated to the hospital

Consultation

Not published.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• MTN South Africa Foundation commissioning announcement
• Mail & Guardian, Perspective-shifting artwork to provide healing at children's hospital (2021)
• CAJ News Africa, SA nurses' Covid-19 heroism honoured through art (2021)

Date

2014

Material

Fibreglass-reinforced plastic and urethane paint

Scale

No dimensions published in the sources located

Setting

Main lobby of the Miller Family Pavilion, in a heavily trafficked position; among the first works encountered on entering

Commissioning

Acquisition through the institutional art programme.

Consultation

Curatorial selection by the art programme; no user consultation published.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Cleveland Clinic, Our Art Collection
• Artwork Archive, Collection Spotlight: Fine Art is Good Medicine at Cleveland Clinic

Date

2013

Material

Bronze

Scale

Three metres, according to the hospital art record.

Setting

Grounds outside the main entrance

Commissioning

Artist-initiated gift within a charitably funded arts programme

Consultation

Not published, though the work's subject was determined by a clinical relationship rather than by a curatorial brief.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Artwork
• The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Arts programme

Date

2024

Material

Salvaged timber, including hand-carving by Dharug artist Jamie Eastwood; see fabricator record.

Scale

No dimensions published in the sources located

Setting

Foyer of the new Integrated Services Building, at the main hospital entry

Commissioning

Commissioned through a published Arts in Health Strategy within a major public capital programme, with First Nations and multicultural artists engaged by design rather than by exception

Consultation

Co-designed with local Aboriginal community members and traditional knowledge holders

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• NSW Health Infrastructure, Creative contributors see their art installed at new precinct
• NSW Health Infrastructure, Stunning new artworks unveiled
• TILT: Burbangana, Liverpool Hospital

Date

Donated 2019; installed 2022

Material

Bronze

Scale

See source record; reported weights differ.

Setting

Healing garden outside the Oak Street entrance, on a pedestal, in a seating area intended for families

Commissioning

Fundraising donation returned as a gift — a two-step philanthropic route with no curatorial brief published at either stage

Consultation

Not published.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• CBC News, Valuable bronze sculpture stolen from B.C. Children's Hospital (2022)
• Photographic report documenting the original work and pedestal

Date

Not published in located sources

Material

Stainless steel, acrylic and bronze, with more than 2,500 LED lights

Scale

Several of the kite sculptures stand 18 feet (approximately 5.5 m); individual kites are six to seven feet tall

Setting

A 150-foot island on the approach to the main entrance, with kite forms outside the entry

Commissioning

Not published in located sources

Consultation

Not published.

Sources vary on the count of bronze figures, giving two in one account and three in another. Neither an installation date nor a commissioning route has been located.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Placzek Studios, Spirit — project record
• Health Facilities Management, Hospitals find artful ways to share their stories

Date

2021

Material

Cast bronze, lost-wax method, on a 2,000-pound pedestal of cultured stone and ultra-high-performance concrete over a steel frame

Scale

No dimensions published; the figures are described as realistic depictions of six children

Setting

Hospital grounds at the corner of Vine and Jasper streets

Commissioning

Philanthropic memorial gift administered through the hospital's foundation

Consultation

Patients' families supplied the source photographs, which is participation in the subject matter rather than in the commissioning decision.

Evaluation: No work-specific health-outcome evaluation identified in the reviewed sources.

• Bronson Healthcare, New Bronson Children's Hospital sculpture unveiled (2021)