Hello and welcome to this week's episode of My Big Idea, an ASOS podcast. Our host, Asos Editor Daniele Radojcin speaks with art curator, Niamh White.Niamh White is an independent visual arts curator and consultant. She has curated a broad range of exhibitions for museums, institutions and galleries, and is a visiting lecturer at various universities across the UK in the fields of art history, collecting and exhibition making. She also runs an art consultancy offering advice to individuals and companies in building outstanding collections of contemporary art. Niamh is also co founder of Hospital Rooms, an initiative that commissions contemporary artists to renovate mental health wards in NHS hospitals. Hospital Rooms works with artists such as Nick Knight, Gavin Turk and Assemble. The aims of the Hospital Rooms project are to; create new, aesthetically pleasing and thought provoking artworks or installations in the Trust that go beyond pictures on the wall, engage patients and staff in the development of each installation to instill a sense of pride in their environment, programme a series of tailored workshops where patients can develop their own artistic practice and to establish the Trust as an innovator and forward thinking health care institution.Niamh has also started the Denton's Art prize, a competition aiming to support diverse and dynamic artists as they embark on their careers.Needless to say Niamh has been making waves in the art world. This is Niamh's big idea.

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