‘Nature Led’ is an artistic way-finding strategy created by painter, Enya Lachman-Curl.
Simply follow the colourful brush strokes throughout the centre to help guide your journey; each floor is represented by a colour and the waiting areas are highlighted by hand painted art works on the walls.
The garden on the original site of the Royal Brompton Diagnostic Centre used to be home to a blossoming cherry tree. Cherry blossom has a wonderful way of floating across the landscape, settling in cracks and corners, marking out trails and defining pathways.
Enya’s work uses a language of colourful brush strokes, recurring motifs and natural fractal patterns to create a calm, natural aesthetic while guiding visitors around the centre. These brushstrokes are scattered along the corridors and stairways, subtly leading visitors along each of the coloured routes, creating a ‘breadcrumb effect’. The brush strokes and colour choices are also combined with clinical signage and flooring to affirm the directions.
The natural world has an incredibly positive effect on our mental and physical health. ‘Biophilia’ is a term for our appreciation and connection to the natural living environment. By using biophilic elements in her paintings Enya has created purpose based art works to make a relaxed setting in the Diagnostic Center that contributes to the patient experience and the healing environment.
Inspired by a workshop Enya held with patients and staff during her commission by rb&hArts, Enya's work also features on lighting panels 'Reflections on Nature' in the procedure rooms, on window manifestations 'Outside In' and in hanging mobiles 'Suspended Brushstrokes' in the stairwell, look out for these artworks on your visit today.
Enya Lachman-Curl has produced work for The Medical Research Council and Imperial College. Collaborations with different practitioners include taking Painting in to architecture, science, and audio visual work. Currently Enya is undertaking a project funded by Johnson and Johnson on how our environment effected our health during Covid19. Enya has held Studio’s and Exhibited in San Francisco USA, Barcelona Spain, London, Bristol, and Glasgow in the UK.
DIVE: Enya Lachman-Curl
Lychee One
Unit 1, 39 Gransden Avenue London, E8 3QA
27-29th of February 2020
In collaboration with Joseph McGann, Tim Fok and Robbie Thompson Private View: 27th of February, 6-9pm
Text by Mala Yamey
Gallery Assistant Levy Gorvy
“The screen transformed into a kind of automatic painting...the initial image of a flower becomes a fish, which in turn becomes a hen, before being transformed into a human face and finally the head of a faun.” (Steven Jacobs ‘Framing Pictures’, 2012 on Picasso painting on glass in Paul Haesaerts’ film Visite à Picasso) DIVE is a large-scale immersive audio-visual installation conceived by artist Enya Lachman-Curl, film maker Tim Fok, designer Robbie Thompson and composer Joseph McGann. Tim’s film captures Enya’s process as she applies cerulean blue oil paint onto a glass triptych: the camera faces the glass frontally, capturing her creative actions. Set in complete darkness, the visitor is invited to explore the film, projected onto three screens, with only the lights of Enya’s brushstrokes to guide them.
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ENYA ‘look at that lemon’ para H2O by Nina Amat 2020 Barcelona
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Turning the camera on Nina Amat.
Anna @galeriah2o ・・・
Enya ha venido para pintar hojas, plantas y pájaros sobre transparencias desde el interior del patio de la galería. Instalada cada mañana, atenta a cada movimiento, da una segunda vida paralela y virtual al jardín.
...Instalada desde el lunes...
GREEN SPACE is an installation that explores the health benefits of green spaces in cities and how we connect with nature in an urban environment. This collaborative project brings together the work of Imperial College London researcher Charlie Roscoe, artist Enya Lachman-Curl, designer Robbie Thompson, musician Robbie Parks, and Science Museum curator Rupert Cole.
The installation’s structure consists of three large-scale, concrete-like blocks, which enclose an interior space of green refuge. Inspired by the juxtaposition of grey concrete with vivacious greenery in the city, the installation evokes the physical and mental transition experienced when moving into a green space.
On entering, the inner organic forms, previously obscured by the ‘concrete’ outer walls, dissolve into greenery that envelops visitors. Enya Lachman-Curl’s 360-degree oil paintings capture the artist’s fascination with plant life and the flowing open spaces in between them. Her large, sweeping abstractions offer a contemporary interpretation of green space. Through the cropping of organic forms, she reminds us how vegetation transcends the physical space that contains it.
In the accompanying soundscape, combining meditative synthesisers with delicate piano motifs, Robbie Parks evokes the sanctuary that green spaces provide, inviting us to consider the possibilities simple encounters with nature offer for relaxed, contemplative thought.
The installation was conceived to communicate Charlie Roscoe’s PhD research on green space and health in older adults. Her research explores how urban green spaces in our local neighbourhoods help all of us maintain a healthy heart and circulatory system. She works with the UK Biobank database, which has collected medical and lifestyle information from 500,000 volunteers.
The health benefits of green space may be related to reduced exposure to harmful pollutants – such as nitrogen dioxide or traffic noise – or its facilitation of exercise, such as walking and jogging. Additionally, green space can reduce stress, and contribute to better mental health.
It is already well evidenced that the incidence of heart attacks and strokes is lower for people who live in greener neighbourhoods, but evidencing exactly how health is protected is a challenge. It relies on data availability and making assumptions about exposure.
Communicating this ongoing research through cross-discipline projects broadens awareness of environmental health and environmental equality research, bringing home to visitors the benefits of green spaces in the city around them. It highlights the vital importance of experiencing, protecting and expanding urban green spaces for health.
GREEN SPACE displayed June 2019 at The Great Exhibition Road Festival in South Kensington https://www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/green-space/ and at the Medical Research Council’s Festival of Medical Research https://mrc.ukri.org/about/getting-involved/mrcfestival/
Green Space in development stage
Research and development Green Space - Oil on Tracing paper
In Conversation with Dr Charlie Roscoe 15th of June 2019 Take Courage Gallery.
Artist talks
31st July 2019 at The Curtain Hotel as part of Seven Sessions in the theme of ... “”Harnessing the beauty of nature and environment to highlight our complacency towards our planet with the hope of inspiring us take active steps to be kinder to the Earth and live more consciously.”” ・・・ Seven Sessions is speaker led events run in a Series of talks will focus on Sustainability & the Environment. Hearing from people who are passionate about our planet and in their unique way taking active steps to confront the sustainability crisis. Other speakers include The Earth Issues & Tanya Houghton
Artist talk 15th of June 2019 at Take Courage Gallery The Gossip, and exhibition of works by Freya Gabie & Jessica Akerman, Louise Hildreth, Sigrid Holmwood, Elizabeth Langford, Sophie Mason acting as a platform of conversation between artists, performers, curators and writers on themes encompassed within the parameters of Gossip: gender, sexuality, community, birth, parenthood, communication etc. The artist's exhibiting have process based practices and a strong affinity with the natural world and environmental issues. These broad topics will also be themes of the show and welcomed warmly into the Gossip.
‘A conversation between seemingly disparate fields of art and science and how they overlap reflect and can unfold one another.’ Dr Charlie Roscoe.
Original Dive Painting 2016
Mercedes Quezada Studio Visit t>>> @mercedesquezada come over the summer of 2018 and took some photos of the Hackney Wick.
