Past Exhibitions & Projects

Children from Great Ormond Street Hospital made art inspired by Jacqueline Wilson's much-loved book Hetty Feather.

Child’s Play brought together an exhibition of photographs, a symposium and a book by artist Mark Neville, who works at the intersection of art and documentary.

Children from Great Ormond Street Hospital made fortune-telling games to share their hopes and wishes for the future.

This in-focus display explored the treatment and care of disabled children by the Foundling Hospital in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This exhibition considered a fundamental yet little-examined aspect of life at the Foundling Hospital - food

Young patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital created medical jokes to share their experiences of treatment and isolation.

Acclaimed artist Michael Craig-Martin produced a new large-scale work for the Picture Gallery.

Young patients from Great Ormond Street Hospital created animations and medicine bottles inspired by the eighteenth-century medical recipes of Foundling Hospital Governor, Dr Richard Mead

A major exhibition curated by Cornelia Parker, featuring the work of over sixty artists from a range of creative disciplines.

On display for the first time is a recently acquired letter written by author Charles Dickens to the Governors of the Foundling Hospital.

A display exploring young people's experiences of being labelled as a 'child in care' by care leavers from Westminster and Ealing.

BA Interior & Spatial Design students from Chelsea College of Arts created dolls’ houses for imaginary pupils of the Foundling Hospital.