New Art Exhibition at Dorset County Hospital
Zennor Box, Bristol-based artist’s fabulous concept art is now on display at Dorset County Hospital.
Zennor has a background in fine art but has also worked in animation as a model maker and concept artist since 1994 and on projects such as Aardman’s Were-Rabbit.
Her painting style is instantly engaging, recognisable and unusual. Human concerns are in every painting, but by using animals or invented creatures Zennor has the freedom to think further and concentrate on the character’s behaviour.
Zennor Box said,
“I’m fascinated by Human behaviour, how we operate and the things we do. I love putting the mundane habits we have into an odd, amusing or thought provoking context.
“Above all I love to make you laugh, not so much a belly laugh as a knowing laugh, one of recognition. Recognising that the thing some weird creature’s doing is the same thing you were doing just now or last week.”
This is the first in a series of touring exhibitions which will travel around a pocket of collaborating South West NHS Trusts. The exhibition will be on display at Dorset County Hospital until the middle of October 2021.
Suzy Rushbrook, Arts in Hospital Manager at Dorset County Hospital said,
“Hospitals are the perfect place to show these paintings as most people walking down a hospital corridor are looking for some sort of distraction or escapism and if the paintings are absurd yet familiar, strange yet humorous, they can quickly transport you.”
For more information about Dorset County Hospital’s Arts in Hospital programme please visit: https://dchartsinhospital.org.uk/ , email suzy.rushbrook@dchft.nhs.uk or follow @artsinhospital on Twitter and Instagram.
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