Guided tour of the art collection at the Westminster and Chelsea Hospital

Friends and Alumni visit of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Art Collection

Wed 24 Nov, 2021

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital houses a collection of more than 1,000 pieces including The Acrobat by Allen Jones RA , works by Julien Opie, Sandra Blow RA, Albert Irvin RA, and Veronese’s Resurrection which hangs in the hospital chapel. Open atriums with tall sculptures, oil paintings, prints and colourful murals spanning five storeys are uplifting to patients, staff and visitors alike. Anna Matthams, Art and Design Manager at CW+, will give The Friends a guided tour of the art collection. This will highlight the place of the visual arts at the centre of the hospital’s conception and build, the current art collection owned by the hospital’s charity CW+, their commissioning process and plans for the future.

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