How can art help mental health patients? Hospital Rooms is a small British charity which aims to help patients in NHS hospitals, by working with artists such as Julian Opie and Richard Wentworth to create bespoke pieces for the wards. It’s founders, Niamh White and Tim A Shaw, talk about the innovative ways in which they are working to take their project beyond the confines created by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as being part of an initiative with Wolfgang Tillmans.

Maryam shares her personal journey of becoming an artist. She discusses her interactive project which resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, questioning if there is a need for art at this time and how galleries and institutions will survive. She also reads out messages she has received from Richard Wentworth and Eric Fischl.