27 Nov 2025
Award-winning artist Lynn Dennison is creating a large-scale public art installation exploring the relationship between health, health inequalities and housing.
The work is part of UCL Homes for All, an interactive festival exploring housing, health and homelessness, presented by The Bartlett School of Architecture, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames and the Department of Applied Health Research.
London-based multimedia artist, Lynn Dennison, has begun to research and develop her work to be displayed in the UCLH atrium, with supporting artwork in the hospital’s Street Level gallery and as part of the Bloomsbury Festival in October 2026.
The commission will respond to the avoidable impacts of the UK’s housing crisis on health inequalities, stimulating awareness, interest and conversations amongst patients and staff alike about housing and healthcare, encouraging the public to understand their agency to generate positive change.
The artwork will be developed alongside architects, housing experts, and local community groups with experience of inadequate housing. The finished works and explanatory texts will inform the diverse members of the UCLH community, patients and visitors about the relationship between health, health inequalities and housing and provoke conversations and desire for improvement in provision and policy.
Lynn Dennison comments: “I look forward to creating artwork which will bring attention to the connection between health and housing; not only the benefits to physical and mental health that secure housing can bring, but also the wider implications of environmentally conscious net zero housing. I hope the work will start meaningful conversations for positive change.”
This public art commission is part of UCL Homes for All, an interactive festival exploring housing, health and homelessness, presented by The Bartlett School of Architecture, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames and the Department of Applied Health Research, supported by UCLH Arts.
UCL Homes for All brings together the work and expertise of two world-leading UCL faculties to explore one of the most pressing issues for the UK today: housing. A national student design exhibition, featuring work from The Bartlett and three other architecture departments, and high-profile panel discussion are also scheduled for October 2026.
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UCL Homes for All research includes two reports, which can be read online:
UCL Homes for All is directed by Rosalind Raine, Professor of Applied Health Research in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health, and Murray Fraser, Professor of Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at The Bartlett.
