This is a celebration of the official launch of the new organ and tissue donation memorial sculpture - Everyone Everyday Evermore on Monday 23rd September 2024 in the atrium of Forth Valley Royal Hospital. The sculpture will be officially unveiled at 2.00pm with opportunites between 1.00pm and 3.00pm to meet the artist and speak to representatives from Artlink Central who have worked closely with the Organ and Tissue Donation Committee on the planning and installation of the new sculpture.
There will also be other opportunities during Organ and Tissue Donation week (23rd – 29th Sept 2024) to view the sculpture and speak to staff involved if you are unable to make it to the launch event and you can visit the atrium at any time to see the new sculpture in the future.
In order to coordinate arrangements, we are asking everyone to confirm if you plan to attend on 23rd September 2024 by emailing Artlink Central at info@artlinkcentral.org by Friday 13th September 2024.
Organ & Tissue Donation Sculpture – Background & Inspiration
Drawing from a public engagement day in Forth Valley Royal Hospital and conversations with families of donors, transplant recipients, patients awaiting transplant and hospital staff, artist Hans K Clausen developed the idea of a ‘floating’ translucent artwork. The ‘cloud like’ sculpture is formed from signatures and hand-written names collected from across the healthcare community and from individuals whose lives have been affected by organ and tissue donation. These are enlarged and laser cut from fluorescent acrylic. The sculpture, entitled Everyone Everyday Evermore, aims to recognise the life changing contribution that local organ and tissue donors have made and raise awareness of the value of organ and tissue donation to the people of Forth Valley. It is based on several themes including reflection and contemplation, individuality and inter-connectedness, strength and fragility, gratitude and joy, outward and upward looking, uplifting and life affirming.
The sculpture is made up of 366 signatures or first name representing a person for each day of the year (including leap years). Signatures and handwriting like fingerprints symbolise our individuality but signatures also represent the agreements, contracts, commitments and bonds we create with other people. Sculptor Hans K Clausen aimed to produce an artwork that is both a memorial and a celebration, and one that will enhance the hospital environment for years. He hopes the final sculpture will do justice to all the people, stories and experiences that have contributed to its evolution and that it can communicate a narrative and legacy of generosity and hope.
Hans K Clausen is a graduate of Leith School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. On graduating in 2012 he won London’s Degree Art Prize for Sculpture and an Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop new graduate award. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has a strong interest and reputation for collaborative and socially engaged art. He is also a hospital exhibitions curator for Tonic Arts/ELH.