The Art of Nursing: Panel Discussion
30 Oct 2025, 17:30 - 20:00
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Join us for a public launch of our new exhibition about the art of nursing.
Enjoy free refreshments and a chance to look around the exhibition, alongside a panel discussion hosted by curator Kate Forde with artists including Heather Agyepong, Ji Sun Sjogren and Panagiotis Poimenidis.
Image: Maternity 11 by Caroline Walker, credit courtesy of the artist.
Doors open at 5.30pm and the talks/online event starts at 6.30pm.
This event is in-person and online and open to all.
Speakers:
Heather Agyepong
Heather is a British Ghanaian visual artist and actor who lives and works in London. Her art practice is concerned with mental health and wellbeing, invisibility, the diaspora and the archive. She uses both lens-based practices and performance with an aim to culminate a cathartic experience for both herself and the viewer. She adopts the technique of re-imagination to engage with communities of interest and the self as a central focus within the image. Her photograph ‘Mary Seacole 2’ is displayed in the ‘Art of Nursing’ exhibition. It was first developed for ‘LDN WMN’ – a series of public artworks across London by women and non-binary artists. The original can still be seen on the exterior of the Cockpit Theatre in North West London.
Ji Sun Sjogren
Ji Sun comes from a multinational background through adoption and is originally from South Korea. She was initially an artist, and came into nursing at a later stage of her life, graduating in 2018 and going straight into Main Theatres as a newly qualified Scrub Nurse. Her artwork incorporates nursing alongside several streams that are much more personal concerning her adoption and residual mental health associated pains and anxieties using deeper psycho-analysis and thinking. Her drawings, ‘Cystoscopy (Bladder Stone)’ and ‘The Angioplasty: Interventional Radiology’ (2022) feature in the exhibition. Drawn from memory, the works are inspired by classical anatomical studies as well as her formative experience at Montessori school where art was regarded as fundamental to childhood development.
Panagiotis Poimenidis
Panagiotis qualified as a registered nurse in Greece in 2006, and has been working at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. Alongside this he has volunteered at the Florence Nightingale Museum, initiated and led Art Tours for patients and staff, served on the GSTT LGBT+ Network, and contributed as a steering committee member of the 外网天堂 History of Nursing forum. He is also an artist and set designer in Studio Prokopiou, a photography studio based in London, co-founded with his partner. He has a strong background in creative project management and visual storytelling. His photographs ‘Rainbow Street’ (2020) feature in the exhibition. Taken during the COVID-19 lockdown in December 2020, the images were inspired by the photographer’s regular commute to work at St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
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