A new sculpture symbolising the joining together of Liverpool’s hospitals is to be set up outside the city’s new multi-million pound health centre.
Years after the collapse of its original contractor and lengthy delays, the new Royal Liverpool Hospital welcomed its first patients in October last year. Back in 2013, after two years of preparation, an arts strategy was compiled for the new hospital.
A decade on, a new statue is to be situated outside the hospital to symbolise the partnership working between the city’s sites. According to documents submitted to Liverpool Council’s planning department by Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust (LUHFT) by Avison Young, the permanent art installation would be situated outside the main entrance of the hospital on Prescot Road.
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A cover letter submitted to the planning department said while a new arts strategy was being developed following Carillion’s demise, a proposed structure made up of five different sized blocks in five different colours, blue, pink, orange, purple and green. The documents said the sculpture is designed as child friendly and will represent the collaboration between the city’s hospitals.
It added: “It is a child friendly form, almost toy like and rotating individually. Using multi-coloured blocks with the rotation allows the viewer to see constant change within the form.
“These five blocks have a harmony in form, different in sizes and together they create a column, a pillar like totem to mark the collaboration.” The statue would be made out of marine grade stainless steel to allow for low maintenance and long life span.
The sculpture is known as Metamorphosis, with a similar design created at Aintree University Hospital, to “reflect the transformation and continual change within the hospital interior and wider hospital estate. There is a symbiotic and collaborative relationship between staff members of every discipline who when working together exemplify the phrase ‘the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.’”
An international call out led to artist Sam Shendhi designing two new sculptures for the Royal and Broadgreen hospitals. The letter said: “These welcoming sculptures across the trust would show a unifying theme and represent the constantly changing people and landscape of the trust.”
A date has yet to be confirmed for the plans to be heard by Liverpool Council planning officers.
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