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The
pictures show wards and equipment, devoid of staff and patients,
- but before the bulldozers moved in.
The
images convey numerous emotions - particularly for anyone who worked
at the hospital or who was a patient there.
Although
most of pictures show empty wards, consulting rooms, waiting areas
and boarded up windows, it's easy to see how each picture conveys
a sense of nostalgia, and especially memories associated with triumph,
despair, joy, sadness or just the mundane and every day aspects
of a once busy NHS hospital.
Vincent
Stokes, one the inspirations behind the exhibition at the Great
Western Hospital, is Head of the Art School at Marlborough College.
He
is a practising artist and exhibits his abstract paintings and mixed
media work on a regular basis.
The
GWH exhibition is Vincent's first photographic show.
Vincent
has collaborated with David Allen on the project.
David
works with a range of mechanical and hand-manipulated media, including
digital and conventional photography.
The
Gallery at the GWH is on the Ground Floor of the hospital, near
the restaurant and is entered through the two sets of double doors
leading from the Atrium.
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