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‘Still life with arteries and tulips’ by Kate Hughes
Identifier
012651
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This painting is from a unique exhibition - Safe Ground: An Unlikely Collaboration which opened at the Sydney Street coffee shop, Royal Brompton. The display was a collaboration between artists, Anne Thompson and Kate Hughes, who both have cystic fibrosis and are patients at the hospital.
Anne and Kate cannot meet in person due to a risk of cross-infection, but their artistic partnership has flourished since being introduced via email by rb&hArts. The resulting exhibition showcased their individual works, as well as a distinctive joint piece, which was developed by being sent back and forth between them through the post.
Kate explains: “It makes the hospital about something more than just my illness. I feel that I have a new friend now in Anne, which is a difficult thing to happen when you both have cystic fibrosis because of the cross-infection risk. Living with the condition is often about the techniques we use to treat it and how we perceive it. I think that other people with cystic fibrosis will immediately recognise this and feel that someone else knows and shares some of what they are going through.”
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