St George’s Hospital Charity Introduces New Creative Heritage Resident Artist
18 June 2026
St George’s Hospital Charity are excited to share the appointment of our new Creative Heritage Resident Artist, Zafeerah Heesambee, who will pick up the baton from our previous Creative Heritage Resident Artists, Ruan Murphy and Keith Jarrett.
This will be the the final artist residency of our 'Our Hospital' project, during which Zafeerah, who is an interdisciplinary artist and producer, will facilitate creative workshops, encouraging and enabling participants across the hospital and local community to engage with our Art and Heritage Collection.
Zafeerah's work will include a collaborative project with staff in our Trust Women's Network, as well as a partnership project with the Wandsworth Carers Centre. Together, the groups will create artistic responses prompted by the pieces on display at our hospital and illustrating their own stories of the healthcare setting and its heritage.
About Zafeerah:
Over the past decade, Zafeerah has led participatory, community-centred projects that respond to racial and systemic inequalities, creating spaces for storytelling and education, grounded in lived experience. Zafeerah works across illustration, printmaking, ceramics, and participatory approaches, and also has a wealth of experience in programming and producing projects in high profile settings.
At the heart of Zafeerah's practice is a commitment to creating spaces where communities can actively contribute to and shape cultural narratives.
Grace Lindley, Arts Engagement Manager at St George’s Hospital Charity, said: “We feel really privileged to be working with Zafeerah, who already has some brilliant ideas of how to work with our community to engage them with our Art & Heritage Collection. We can't wait to see participants collaborate with her to create really special work!"
Please watch this space or follow @artsstgeorges on socials for updates on how the residency develops!
The Resident Artist initiative is organised by Arts St George's, part of St George's Hospital Charity. To find out more about our Resident Artists Programme, please click here.
Arts St George’s (part of St George’s Hospital Charity) is the arts programme for St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. To find out more, follow us on socials @artsstgeorges, or follow Arts St George's - St George's Hospital Charity.
'Our Hospital: conserving, curating and responding to St George’s Art and Heritage Collection’ is a three-year project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and made possible by money raised by National Lottery players. The project is focusing on conserving, cataloguing, reinterpreting and digitising St George’s Hospital’s unique Art and Heritage Collection so it can be enjoyed by many more people.
