Schools Activities
Health and Healing
( Key Stage 2)
There are four activities in this workshop. They are either discussion
based or practical, making and doing activities.
Real Life and Art
What is a pharmacy normally in real life?
What kinds of things do you find in a pharmacy? Name some of the
things you might find in a pharmacy. Talk about all the things you
can find in a pharmacy.
What is the difference between Damien Hirst's online Pharmacy
and a real pharmacy or chemist?
Look carefully at all the things in the online
Pharmacy. Would you expect to see all of these things
in a real pharmacy? What things are different?
In pairs, write down three things that are in Damien Hirst's Pharmacy
that you would not expect to see in a real pharmacy. Even if you
don't know the names for everything, do you know what they are or
what they do?
Healthy and Unhealthy things
Look at your list of objects in Pharmacy which you wouldn't
expect to see in a real life pharmacy - where would you normally
find these things? In a shop, in a cafe, at home? Are they things
that you normally think of as 'to do with health'? If not, are they
unhealthy things?
Why do you think Damien Hirst has included them in a place where
you go to buy medicine? (There is no right or wrong answer. This
is just a discussion point.)
Are things that make you healthy also things that make you unhealthy
sometimes? When? (This could be a discussion about eating too much
which can make you sick, or, if you have allergies why eating the wrong
foods can also make you sick)
Healing
If you were told to make an artwork about health and healing what
would you do?
As a class, write down a list of things that make you healthy. Think
about food types, etc and also things that make you feel good like
friendship. What sorts of things do you need to feel well?
What makes good health?
What do you need to eat? What do you need to do to be healthy? What
can make you unhealthy?
Now do a quick drawing of these things, one per sheet of paper.
Cut around each object and rearrange them in a way that makes them
look pretty on the page, or that makes a pattern.
You could choose to put things together that are all the same colour,
or all the same shape, or things that you like and things that you
hate.
You could brainstorm different ways of arranging objects.
Damien Hirst has done the same thing with his objects in Pharmacy.
He has arranged them so that they go together for a reason.
Once you have arranged your objects, stick them down on a new sheet
of paper.
Artists concerned with Health
Artists often make work about things that affect us everyday. Health
is one of these things.
You may want to visit the Tate
Collection on the Tate website to find other artists who are
concerned with ideas of health, healing and medicine. A useful tool
may be the Tate Collection subject
search. There's a medical category under 'Objects' and also
one under 'Work and occupations' to help you search. There are many
ways of expressing an idea. Make a quick sketch for another artwork
that expresses ideas of health and medicine.
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