Graham Cooper archive

The collection comprises files regarding Cooper's Nature of Healing Art exhibition and his work on healthcare architecture and art, along with various collated publications on the themes of healthcare architecture, landscaping and hospital arts projects.

1980-2010

4 boxes, 1 oversize file, 7 digital discs

The collection is arranged in the following four sections:

A. Nature of Healing Art exhibition and Nature of Health Design programme

B. Healthcare architecture

C. Forums and networks

D. Collated papers

Original file titles have been used where they exist. These are in quotation marks.

Graham Cooper is an art practitioner working at the intersection of art, architecture and the built environment. He studied at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1978, and has taught periodically at various universities, art schools and polytechnics in the subsequent decades.

Cooper was the keynote speaker at the innaugural Forum for Healing Environments in Japan in 2002 and developed the Nature of Healing Art exhibition which toured in both Japan and the UK. He established MARU Art Projects (Medical Architecture Research Unit.) and was a founding director of Maap (Medical Architecture and Art Projects). He is also a regular contributor to the magazine HD: Hospital Development.

Some of the records were given by Graham Cooper to Salford University. They were later passed to Arts For Health at Manchester Metropolitan University who donated them, with Graham Cooper's consent, to Wellcome between 8 July-16 September 2015 alongside several other collections related to art and health. The remainder of the collection was deposited by Cooper in May 2017.

A number of Arts and Health organisations deposited their collections at Manchester Metropolitan University to form what was known as the Arts for Health archive. In 2015, these papers were donated to Wellcome Library and subsequently divided into the following collections, with a unifying 'ART' prefix in the reference number. These collections are in the process of being catalogued; search the archives catalogue using the collection reference number for further information.

Arts for Health archive: the main organisational archive of Arts for Health; "ART/AFH".

Healing Arts, Isle of Wight archive: Papers of Healing Arts, Isle of Wight from its establishment in 1984 up to 2012; "ART/IOW"..

Mike White archive: Papers relating to Mike White's work for Arts for Health while at Gateshead Council and Durham University; "ART/MIW"

Langley Brown archive: Papers relating to Langley Brown's work for Manchester Hospital Arts (now Lime), and for Start (Sheltered Training in the Arts); "ART/LAB".

Stockport Arts and Health archive: Papers of Stockport Arts and Health, 1990-2008; "ART/SAH".

Aiden Shingler archive: Papers of Aiden Shingler, relating to his work with Arts for Health; "ART/ASH"..

Graham Cooper archive: Cooper's working notes and research folders for projects on effects of hospital architecture on patient wellbeing and care; "ART/COO".

Lime Arts archive: Papers of Lime Arts, 1973-2007; "ART/LIM".

Artlink West Yorkshire: Organisational records, 1984-2010, "ART/AWY".

In addition, some grey literature and publications have been added to the Library's holdings, and can be searched for in the Library catalogue by searching "Donor: Arts for Health"

This collection has been catalogued and is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records.