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The Family Wall Project at GOSH

9 May 2024, 3:20 p.m.

Lena, in her dad's arms, points at her picture on the family wall.

Introducing our 'Family Walls': a new artwork in our hospital illustrating the complex journey our patients and families can have at GOSH and the 'GOSH Family' they create along the way.

Celebrating the multitude of teams involved in a patient's care

Families have often shared with us how our hospital can become a home-away-from-home, and for some, like a second family.

We wanted to create something within our hospital buildings that celebrates this and highlights the complex journey our patients and families can have at GOSH.

This sparked our ‘Family Wall’ project, with the idea to showcase our patients with each member of their 'GOSH Family'.

Many people have a special place at home that celebrates their family and we're very proud to call this ours. You'll spot two of them in the corridor along to the Lagoon.

We'd love to fit everyone who's contributed to their care, but we need a much bigger wall! We hope this can honour the wonderful people our families count as their team at GOSH.

Capturing the scale of each 'GOSH Family'

To create this project, we worked together with four GOSH families, capturing them with each member of their 'GOSH family'.

Watch the heartwarming moment Alyssa, Sami, Zayne, Zion, Amelia and Lena, and their families saw themselves featured in our new artwork for the first time.

Take a closer look at the family walls for Amelia and Lena, Zayne and Zion, Alyssa, and Sami.

  • Zayne and Zion with their mum and dad standing before their family wall.
  • Alyssa studies the photo frames on her family wall in the GOSH corrdior.
  • Sami's little brother seeing their family wall in the hospital corridor for the first time, with his mum in the background.
  • Amelia studies her family wall in the hospital corridor from the position of her wheelchair.
  • Lena, in her dad's arms, points at her picture on the family wall.
  • Sami's family seeing their family wall for the first time in the hospital corridor.
  • Alyssa stands before her family wall in the hospital's corridor, smiling up at the photo frames of her GOSH family.
  • Zayne and Zion's father seeing their family wall for the first time in the GOSH corridor.
  • Amelia and Lena and their parents stand before their family wall at GOSH. Amelia uses a wheelchair.
  • Sami's family wall in front of their family wall in the hospital corridor.
  • Alyssa and her family stand before their family wall in the hospital corridor.
  • Primrose and one of the twins in the hospital corridor, just after seeing their family wall for the first time.