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Artwork commission: Impact Arts at NHS Kyle Chemotherapy Unit

Fri 25th July 2025

Community arts charity Impact Arts was recently commissioned to add artwork to the newly designed garden at the Kyle Chemotherapy Unit at Ailsa Hospital in Ayr 🌿 ✨

This artwork commission, decorative steel panels known as ‘Light Through the Leaves’, is now on display and we’re so excited to share this project with you.

🎬 Watch our case study video below to hear from the people involved and learn more about the project, creative process, and final designs.

For this wonderful project, we teamed up with the talented Bespoke Atelier design studio and it was important to us that patients and staff were involved in the initial brainstorming phase and creative process.

So, we hosted a consultation session where we distributed collage packs and questionnaires to allow patients and staff to get creative, discuss the design elements they liked, and share their ideas with us. Their feedback helped shape the final design of the decorative panels you can see in the garden today.

Light Through the Leaves features plants, wildlife, colours, and shapes, all carefully chosen to reflect the thoughts, feelings and experiences of patients and staff. They have been strategically placed in the garden to allow patients to see them from the treatment room windows.

When viewed from specific angles, the panels align to form two archways, symbolising support, strength and stability 💚

On this collaborative project, we also worked alongside RePollinate, a pollinator conservation charity, who did a magnificent job on the garden design and landscaping 🌸🌿

From the whole team at Impact Arts, we would like to give a huge thank you to everyone involved for trusting us and our partners to bring more colour and joy to this beautiful space 💖

A special thanks goes to NHS Ayrshire & Arran for commissioning us, and to Hewlett Packard for funding this fantastic initiative.

🎨 Commission Impact Arts

Do you have an idea for a creative project in your community?

Whether you’d like to commission one of our art programmes, a creative workshop, public art like a mural, or a community consultation, Impact Arts can help you make it happen.

We regularly work with people of all ages as well as companies, local authorities, and other charities to transform lives through creative engagement. Let’s make art that makes a difference to your community ❤️

Visit our Commissions page to learn more or email us today at development@impactarts.co.uk to find out how we can support you.

Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

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