Havens, Outdoor Exhibition

1 October, 2023 - 31 July, 2024 / Astley Ainslie Hospital

Panel from Astley Ainslie Outdoor Havens Exhibition
Panel from Astley Ainslie Outdoor Havens Exhibition

Dotted across campus, you will find the work of artists Craig Easton and Lottie Davies as part of NHS Lothian Charity’s Havens project.

Havens has been a year-long documentary photography project featuring a wide range of NHS Lothian staff members. The project aims to promote wellbeing in the workplace and the importance of taking breaks throughout the day. Participants were interviewed and photographed in their own personal workplace ‘Havens’. As you view portraits, you can scan a QR code to hear the staff members’ stories in their own voice.

This project is delivered by NHS Lothian Charity’s Tonic Arts and Green Health programmes in partnership with Stills Gallery.

Find out more about our Tonic Arts Exhibition programme, providing engaging, changing displays of professional, patient and staff artworks for exploration, reflection and distraction.

Current Exhibitions

illustration by Amy Steele

20 November, 2024 – 8 April, 2025 / Tonic Gallery, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People/Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Storybook Way

Storybook Way is a vibrant site-specific exhibition captures the magic of picture books for all ages.

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29 November, 2024 – 1 May, 2025 / Tonic Gallery and outdoor exhibition, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Havens: Stories and Portraits from NHS Lothian

Discover the interesting and sometimes surprising places that NHS Lothian staff use as havens in their busy work lives.

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Artwork by Lesley Simpson

30 October, 2024 – 21 March, 2025 / Tonic Gallery, Anne Ferguson Building, Western General Hospital

Artists Within

Artists Within is an exhibition of artwork by NHS Lothian staff. We have had the pleasure of working in partnership […]

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Three portraits of Scottish LGBTI+ elders hung on a wall

8 October, 2024 – 25 January, 2025 / Tonic Gallery, St John’s Hospital, Livingston

Portraits of an LGBTI+ Generation

Our Portraits of an LGBTI+ Generation exhibition, in partnership with National Theatre of Scotland, shares a series of portraits of […]

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