THE ARTS PROJECT has been developed by Arts Project Curator Manager Peter Herbert out of a previous project that ran for 5 years and involved  68 exhibitions in 4  NHS healthcare locations with exhibitions changing every 2 months. These supported a range of venues  with an ambitious series of multimedia exhibitions .One of the early highlights  involved   a lecture by Germaine Greer during the photography exhibition Altered Spaces Quiet Places that highlighted the plight of the vanishing gas holders in the redevelopment of the Kings Cross area. Ken Livingstone opened Becoming  which showcased the creative sculptures of service users  from The Jules Thorn Day Hospital and then offered to take the  exhibition to City Hall  while  Jon Snow dropped by on his bike to open an ambitious exhibition A Spectrum Of Portraits contrasting conventional  oil painting portraits  with contemporary modern art equivalents.

Not  content with only exhibiting paintings and photography ,The Arts Project encourages a wide range of mixed media  including film loops, sound installations, and in one exhibition introduced a  sound touch box made by Bristol sound artist Tom  Bugs. The artist Carolyn Kardia built a large scale white plaster sculpture over a one month period during her exhibition and finance was raised through the North London NHS Charitable Fund  for a glazed photographic installation by Matilda Moreton in entrances of ward areas that use images  from the local area with historical  references.