Xray Treatment Rooms

Susan T Grant worked with staff and patients to create these vibrant works for the six Xray rooms. The x-ray rooms were both stark and full of large machinery. Susan felt that they needed a ‘jungle’ of colourful shapes and curving lines to provide humanising, fun, distracting visuals that minimised the equipment. In-depth consultations with staff, patients and parents resulted in a really useful set of technical and aesthetic specifications which informed the final designs. Susan wanted to develop artworks simple enough for wee ones to respond to but stylised enough for teenagers and staff to enjoy. Alongside the designs in laser-cut vinyl, photographic ‘photogram’ images - created by staff and patients of the hospital - have been mounted on glowing lightboxes and digitally animated by filmmaker Monika Dutta for projection across the ceilings.

“All members of staff working in radiology, and many who just pass through, have been delighted by Susan Grant’s imaginative and interactive response to a
commission for artwork throughout the department.

As a diagnostic imaging department undertaking a wide range of examinations on patients ranging from neonates to 14 year olds, the ‘quest’ to distract and delight, now and in the future was a demanding one.

Susan’s inclusive approach involving all the staff members and some enthusiastic patients, has produced examination rooms which push all the buttons as regards timeless patient distraction right across the age spectrum.”
Staff, X-Ray Department