
Roost, a hundred birds,the atrium, Alder Hey.

Alder Hey

Bird and 'being' part of roost - a hundred birds
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool - 2016
The new Liverpool children’s hospital (BDP architects) opened in 2016 .The children moved from the old hospital next door, through a tunnel and into the light and airy atrium of the new building. The hospital sits in a park and the design from the start has been inspired by nature. All the bed rooms look down in to the park and the green planted roofs rise up from the ground integrating the building in to the land scape. A children and young people’s group has been involved throughout this design process.
For the past couple of years I have been the lead artist at the hospital creating art works, designs and graphics for the hospital environment – ‘I see these fantastical ‘beings’ ,birds and animals I have created inhabiting the hospital, as if the people have left and they are running, climbing ,sitting and roosting in the spaces.’

Roost
THE ART WORKS
Roost: One Hundred Birds
A hundred individually created birds and characters perching on twelve six meter ‘pine needles’ which are suspended in the four storey atrium - Inspired by the birdlife on the Wirral and the pine forest of Formby.


Birds from roost

Bird

Bird

Bird (from roost)

Bird

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Roost & balconies

Roost & balcony glass

Bird

Roost & balcony glass

Bird

Roost - a hundred birds

Bird studio

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bronze figure

Roost - a hundred birds



View of Roost & balcony

Bird from roost

Roost

View of atrium

View of atrium

Bird during installation of 'roost'

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Bird during installation of 'roost'

View of Roost
Bronze animals and imagined beings
Situated on benches in the atrium, and in the entrance plaza





Alder Hey textile design
Curtain design for the wards.



Sign
Way finding graphics

Sign post & balcony glass

Sign post

Sign Post

Sign post





Entrance way concrete wall relief
Twenty meter wall with integrated cast concrete reliefs of plants and creatures, as if fossils caught in the ‘rock’.







Glass Balustrades
Glass design depicting plants and characters for walkways and balcony balustrades.











