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is the umbrella
organisation for artists
Anne
Tockwell
and Jane Ostler
when they work in
a.tockwell-v@clara.co.uk
Contact Jane Ostler
janeostler@gmail.com
Jane
Ostler is based in East Anglia
Jane
Ostler worked as an artist in a health setting at Bromley-by-Bow Healthy
Living Centre, where the emphasis is on working "organically" with and
around client needs, and helping them to stay in touch with "nature" and
their own self awareness in a heavily urban environment.
2006 Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital
In 2006 Jane's collection of watercolours
and prints titled "Exploring the Comfort Zone" were shown
on Main Hospital Street Level 3 of the Norwich and Norfolk University
Hospital, by the Hospital Arts Project.
2003 Colchester Borough Council
In 2003 as Artist in Residence Jane worked with
KS3 students at Stanway School, Colchester. They discussed the health
and social issues surrounding AIDs and HIV and the generally held misconceptions
about safety and infection. Personalised T shirts were created and worn
on National AIDs Day and were displayed in The Digby Gallery, Mercury
Theatre, Colchester.
2001 Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre
Connecting Cultures at the Colchester Institute
sent Jane to the Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre London E3 to collect
and experience first-hand how such potential employment environments
may affect artists. Her insights helped in the development of an undergraduate
syllabus for Art students. She collaborated with a trainee health net-worker
with no previous art experience and together created an atrium sculpture,
an illustrated bi-lingual health information booklet in Swahili and English
and a learning tool to help develop confidence, educational potential
and cross-cultural assistance on health matters to ethnic minority groups.
1987 The Pines Psychiatric Day Centre
At Peterborough General Hospital in Cambridgeshire Jane was Printmaker in Residence
in 1987. Her aim was to motivate and assist clients in the Pines Psychiatric
Day Centre to create a suite of 2D images for the permanent collection using
the theme "Garden Urns and Ornaments". They used stenciling and
sponge painting techniques and the work was bought by the Friends of the
hospital for permanent installation.
Anne
Tockwell is
based in the Thames Valley
Anne
runs workshops
in education, gallery and therapeutic settings and has been
working in a NHS setting since 2000 initiating and running art and
environmental projects. She
has considerable experience of garden design and plants,
focusing on their therapeutic qualities and visual characteristics,
helping others to learn how to benefit from them in their
stressful work and/or residential environments.
2007 Cardiac Courtyard John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
presentation and exhibition by Anne
Tockwell with Bartholomew's
School Art Dept.
2001-2
St Mary’s Hospital NHS Trust, Ryde Regeneration Project.
Working with communities on environmental projects across hospital sites and
for Ryde Regeneration Project. Designed the Sea Garden with coloured glass and
mirror cube pavilion reflecting sea-fossils following the 2001 Atkins Drew SRB
consultation for Ryde Sea-front Regeneration and with input from local community
groups, including mental health clients and special needs schools and clients.
2001 St Mary’s Hospital, Isle
of Wight
Recently completed a landscape design for Sevenacres, mental health
unit at St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight, the Sylvacure Garden
planted with medicinal plants and trees, including a mass bulb planting and avenues
of trees. This forms the initial phase of a Himalayan Garden, to be twinned with
the Isle of Wight.
2000
Millenium Project
Shortlisted by the Wellcome Trust for a physic garden the
Pharmikon at St Bartholomew’s
Hospital, London, linked to Madagascar, involving plants used in the treatment
of cancer.