Arts events & exhibitions

To See Oursels: Insights into clinical practice through the artistic works of medical students and doctors

Bristol Medical School has a longstanding commitment to the arts within medical education.  

This new initiative utilises the eyes and ears of students and doctors to offer perspectives on the nature of modern GP consultations. 

Scroll down here for some choice examples already curated. 

Our long-term aim is to develop a model of arts-based opportunities within GP communities which will  

consolidate the role of life-long learning, exploring knowledge and professional identity through shared creative engagement. 

Turning the Tide: Water as Medicine - exploring water's role in sustaining health for our global and community futures: a multimedia enquiry and collaboration between arts and science, evidence and practice, medicine and ecology

The 2024 Ocean Decade conference highlighted that ‘the ocean is not only the cradle of life, it hold the keys to an equable and sustainable future’.

As part of one of seven national Green and Blue social prescribing sites Bristol Medical School has developed a lively community of health practitioners becoming more ‘water aware’ and is committed to helping our future doctors become Ocean and Water literate.

This arts-based research exhibition aims to explore and promote the benefits of being in, on, under, or near water through scientific understanding, complemented by creative and cultural perspectives, while recognising too, the risks water can present.