A group of parents-to-be in Forth Valley have been tuning into their babies, courtesy of a new online project described as health and ‘edutainment.’ The website, which contains audio clips designed for parents to listen to during pregnancy, was developed… read more →
Children and young people attending a waiting area at Stirling Community Hospital will now find themselves surrounded by ‘nature’ as part of an arts project designed to help them relax whilst waiting to be seen. The new artwork showing leaves,… read more →
Ex-servicemen and women who would like to re-focus their skills and try their hand at sculpting, are being recruited to make works of art for healthcare settings across Forth Valley. In what’s known as the Workshop Project, they are being… read more →
The work of an American artist is helping brighten the walls of the 16 birthing rooms at Forth Valley Royal Hospital. The wall panels, which aim to make the labour suite more welcoming and help distract from medical equipment, are… read more →
The front of Forth Valley Royal Hospital was turned into a giant cinema screen for one night only this week, after being chosen for the showing of a film ‘One Hundred Blinks’ which was created during artist Lindsay Perth’s residency… read more →
The wraps are off! Prototypes for art work on the walls of the 16 birthing rooms at Forth Valley Royal Hospital have just arrived from America, courtesy of Ava Blitz, a visual artist whose commissions include a huge mosaic wall… read more →
The “make do and mend” skills of the post war generation of the 1940’s and 50’s will be back in vogue this month (October 2013) in the form of an exhibition at Forth Valley Royal Hospital. Artists and textile designers… read more →
A touch of ‘cabin fever’ has broken out at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in the shape of a huge wooden shed. Situated in the atrium, the four metre by three metre structure is the brainchild of NHS Forth Valley’s artist… read more →
Insomniacs and tinnitus sufferers are to be given the opportunity to tune into an alternative form of therapy whilst in Forth Valley Royal Hospital. The innovative ‘treatment’ will be delivered via bedside radio and will feature soothing sounds including rain,… read more →
It may not be the Tate or the Louvre but Forth Valley Royal Hospital is soon to have its own art gallery. Staff and longer-stay patients are being invited along to a ‘Choosing Wall’, in the Learning Centre, and asked… read more →
