    
Exhibitions
Since 1995, the Trust has hosted a lively programme of
temporary exhibitions offering patients, staff and visitors diverse
opportunities to further engage with art. The programme has struck a
balance between locally based community arts and art works by professional
artists. Exhibitions are chosen for their aesthetic quality and for the
issues they invite people to confront. The audiences for such exhibitions
far exceed what any gallery or arts centre could hope to attract.
Exhibitions hosted at Waterford Regional Hospital since
the establishment of the Trust include: works from the Waterford Municipal
Art Collection, textile work by Kakuko Okamura, watercolours by the
Watercolour Society and annual exhibitions by the artists-in-residence of
the Healing Arts Trust. Self Assembly an exhibition of paintings by Lynne
Foster Fitzgerald which explores the condition of manic depression was
exhibited in the hospital in early 2002.
Waterford Regional Hospital was one of six venues for the
first International Festival of Glass Art in Waterford in 2002. The
Festival brought together the centuries-old glass tradition of Waterford
and the Italian flair of Venice’s Murano Island creativity.
Twelve Bells, an exhibition of paintings and photographs
by the two outgoing artists in residence of Waterford Healing Arts Trust,
photographer Mary Beth Meehan and painter Grace O’Meara, went on view in
the hospital in October 2002 and subsequently in Greyfriars Municipal Art
Gallery, Waterford in January 2003. This was the first time that an
exhibition produced by the Healing Arts Trust was showcased in an outside
venue.
A Picture of Health is an exhibition of paintings and
drawings by English artist Susan Macfarlane depicting the various
stages of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery. Waterford
Healing Arts Trust, brought the exhibition to Ireland for the first time
in March 2003. Since 1995, A Picture of Health has toured to over 30
venues in the United Kingdom as a means of promoting greater awareness
and understanding of breast cancer and its treatments | 
