"First Visit" A commission for the maternity unit in the Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, County Derry.
A side view of the work in the maternity unit.
Corridor view
Detail of the children
Life size cartoon for the work.
The Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, County Derry.
This high relief is entitled ‘First Visit’. The sculpture was commissioned by Arts Care, Northern Ireland on behalf of the Northern Ireland Health Service and secured through open competition. The panel is located in the Maternity Unit of the new Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Appropriately for its setting, it depicts a mother feeding a newborn childwhile being visited by three other children.
Carved from cherrywood and framed in ash, it measures 122cm x 86cm
x 8 cm.