Our work
Exhibitions, the Cape, films, theatre, webinars and creative programmes, and what they changed.
Nurses:
Being Seen.
Being Heard.
Being.
Clore Learning Centre
Kensington Palace, London
An exhibition and summit bringing nursing’s identity, stories, knowledge and care into view through the arts.
Explore the exhibition
Queens and Vaccines
A guided tour connecting royal women, smallpox, public trust and the arts, from the Three Queens of Mysore to the King’s Staircase and the summit’s own portraits.
Explore the tourNurses: Being Seen. Being Heard. Being.
Watch the 1-minute-18-second summit film and the 11-minute-50-second Cape film.
Watch the filmsNew Narratives of Nursing
Reworking research into publicly available short stories, with Smart Lark Training and Ruler’s Wit.
Explore the workshopQueens and Vaccines:
the palace health tour
Written and led by Dr Marion Lynch for summit guests, the Queens and Vaccines Health Tour connected royal history with public health, women’s leadership and the power of art to shape a public conversation. Stories of Queen Caroline and Queen Charlotte opened discussion of smallpox, inoculation, risk and trust. The Three Queens of Mysore painting offered another perspective on how images communicate health messages across cultures.
The tour also linked with The Last Princesses of Punjab, exploring women’s voices, votes and support for refugees. On the King’s Staircase, William Kent’s mural invited reflection on whose faces and stories are represented. A comparison with John Yayen’s contemporary portraits connected the palace’s eighteenth-century court with the nurses, artists, educators and leaders gathered for the exhibition: two communities, centuries apart, made visible through art.
Three films to watch.
Nursing Creative Health SIG Summit
A short film from the 28 May 2026 summit at the Clore Learning Centre, Kensington Palace, hosted by Art of Nursing CIC with NCCH and The Foundation of Nursing Studies.
Watch the summit filmCape of Home, Health, Hope
A century-long story of nursing, migration and belonging, making nursing legacies and nurses visible through the artefacts of nursing.
Watch the Cape filmNurses Being Seen Being Heard Being. The Artful Intelligence™️ Revolution
Watch the filmEleven conversations.
No slides.
A webinar with Michael Rosen ended our 18-month run of webinars. Our final session closed by wondering what nursing will become in the future.
Ways of working:
innovating, creating, evaluating
Our work moves in a cycle. We innovate: we notice what is hard to say, open up ideas with the people living them, and ask awkward questions before settling on answers. We create: we focus that judgement into something made - a play, an exhibition, a film, a toolkit - built with, not for, the people it belongs to. And we evaluate: we ask what works, for whom, in what circumstances and why, and we feed what we learn back into the next cycle.
Discover
Open up possibilities. Notice what is hard to say, listen to lived experience and defer judgement.
Define
Focus judgement. Ask whose problem is being addressed, and what matters to the people living it.
Develop
Open up possibilities again. Co-create, explore different forms and test ideas with the people they belong to.
Deliver
Focus judgement into something made. Evaluate what works, for whom and why, and feed learning back into the next cycle.
The design double diamond, after the Design Council (2004). Web redraw for review © Art of Nursing CIC, 2026.
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