The Nightingale Project brings life and colour into the South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre through music and the visual arts. It is based on the belief that the physical environment in hospitals plays a vital part in the healing process, that brighter surroundings positively contribute to patients’ well-being. The Project is part of a growing ‘arts in health’ movement, and has three aspects: temporary exhibitions of high quality works of art, raising funds to purchase artworks for permanent display around the hospital, and bringing musicians into the wards to play to the patients. In these ways the Project aims to create a healing environment, to establish a context that facilitates the psychiatric and therapeutic work that goes on in the Unit.

News - Ian Beck Exhibition

We are delighted to announce the Nightingale Project’s spring-summer exhibition, The Butterfingers Pictures: Silhouettes by Ian Beck. Ian Beck has been described by The Times as ‘one of Britain’s greatest illustrators’, and in the new exhibition – Ian’s second at the Nightingale Project - we present his latest work. The opening of the show celebrates the publication of Butterfingers by J.M.Trewellard, which Ian has illustrated entirely in silhouettes. The original drawings will be exhibited, and signed aquatints and giclées will be for sale. See News Page for details. Fundraising Event: Two Countertenors at Leighton House, March 9th. See Events page.