The following memories and stories about the Maitland Hospital emerged from background research, and from being shared by artists, staff, volunteers, patients and community members.
We’re waiting with you.
Photographs from the Maitland Hospital Collection that capture moments of waiting, watching, helping and lounging around as well as celebratory and commemorative occasions. Prints of the photographs are now on the walls of the Outpatient wait areas in the new Maitland Hospital.
Volunteers 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of Maitland Hospital Volunteers during 2020 and 2021.
Hospital staff.
Adrian Lockhart’s painting ‘Hospital staff’ and a small collection of items are displayed in the new Maitland Hospital in honour of the staff who, in their many and varied roles, have provided health care throughout the history of the hospital.
Provided great enjoyment.
Rocking horses in the children’s ward from the mid-twentieth century provided some distraction for young patients.
Working, caring, recovering, reflecting.
Catharine Neilson’s photographic portraits of people at the Maitland Hospital. Her photographic installation can be seen in the exhibition A Conspicuous Object at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Stitched together.
Susan O’Doherty’s textile sculptures stitch together the stories of women working at The Maitland Hospital over time. Her sculptures are in the exhibition A Conspicuous Object at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Uncle Tom.
The innovative campaign initiated by Thomas Pyman in 1903 to raise money to furnish the new children’s ward.
One of our best feelings … charity.
Women as volunteers at and for The Maitland Hospital, past and present.