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The Death of an Artist: Adrian Henri, 1932–2000 J R Ashton J Epidemiol Community Health: first published as 10.1136/jech.56.1.72 on 1 January 2002. Downloaded from 72 OBITUARY The death of an artist: Adrian Henri, 1932–2000 J R Ashton ............................................................................................................................. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:72–75 The death has occurred in Liverpool of the artist, poet Extensive discussions took place with the Fes- and public health practitioner manqué, Adrian Henri. tival designers about how the whole site could be inseminated with a health perspective.4 One dis- This is a reflection on a collaboration that crossed cussion, for example, was about the tides of the C P Snow’s two cultures,1 which lasted almost 20 years adjacent River Mersey and the observatory oppo- and paid rich dividends for public health on Merseyside site; how an interpretation of this might give people insight into a large scale human habitat and way beyond. called Liverpool, its origins and raison d’être. .......................................................................... Another discussion centred on using the Festival to explore the gulf between town and country, any of us “children of the sixties” grew up with its implicit loss of an understanding of the on the Beatles and the Liverpool poets. In cycles of nature and the seasons that can afflict Mthe “Summer of Love” of 1968, Adrian the urban poor, except for the impact of the cold Henri who, as one of the speakers said at his in winter. Thinking was much influenced by a funeral, “loved love”, spoke for all of us:2 “happening” around the corner from Adrian’s house in the centre of Liverpool, when a derelict LOVE IS site adjacent to the Cracke public house was turned into the seaside for the day for Love is feeling cold in the back of vans local children, made possible by the gift of truck- Love is a fan-club with only two fans loads of sand from a local builder and complete Love is walking holding painstained hands with sandcastle competitions, ice creams and games. Love is The Health presence at the Garden Festival, Love is fish and chips on winter nights though less ambitious than originally conceived, Love is blankets full of strange delights did manage to penetrate all quarters of the site. A Love is when you don’t put out the light static, large scale health fair (the first such to pro- vide mass fitness testing and personal lifestyle Love is advice) was complemented by static and dynamic displays, especially in the area given over to small Love is the presents in Christmas shops vegetable gardens. Health orientated activities, Love is when you’re feeling top of the pops such as aerobic dance, yoga, sports and public http://jech.bmj.com/ Love is what happens when the music stops participation, music and poetry completed the picture. Love is In 1986, the Copenhagen office of the World Love is white panties lying all forlorn Health Organisation began the Healthy City Love is a pink nightdress still slightly warm initiative, and I was asked to be the first Love is when you have to leave at dawn coordinator. My collaboration with Adrian took off at this point, and eventually Adrian made Love is contributions to public health through a wide on September 24, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. range of media and activities.56 Love is you and love is me At the first Healthy Cities conference, held in Love is a prison and love is free Lisbon in 1986, I presented a paper—“Esmedune Love’s what’s there when you’re away from me 2000”—which sought to draw together a strategic vision for a future, regenerated Liverpool based on Love is. a coalescence of community initiatives and more It was in another lifetime that I personally formal, large scale public works projects. Adrian began to connect to Adrian in the flesh. The responded immediately by writing his poem enti- 7 ....................... opportunity came up to play an active part in tled City 2000. designing and running health promotion activi- Correspondence to: Professor J R Ashton, CBE, ties at the 1984 International Garden Festival, NHS Executive North West which was intended to kick-start the regenera- CITY 2000 RO, 930–932 Birchwood tion of this once great city enduring hard times. In this city Boulevard, Millennium Adrian’s book, Total art— environments, happenings filled with the sound of alarm-bells Park, Birchwood, 3 Warrington WA3 7QN, and performance, was the obvious text, and it was police-sirens howl UK; J.Ashton@ about this time that Adrian and my paths like animals mating. btinternet.com converged. A five month long garden festival, Vagrants huddle together with four and a half million visitors, presented a in cardboard cities; Accepted for publication 23 August 2001 unique opportunity to use the whole environment in a damp bed-sit ....................... to explore health issues in a holistic way. a girl dreams visions of Patmos www.jech.com J Epidemiol Community Health: first published as 10.1136/jech.56.1.72 on 1 January 2002. Downloaded from Adrian Henri 73 Cool white spaces commentary for the highly successful International Healthy The dusk gleam of an ikon Cities conference held in Liverpool in 1988.7 The night In 1990, Spanish Healthy Cities links led to a British Council written in dripping white fellowship for Adrian to go to Valencia in Spain to explore the on a railway wall health dimensions of the famous Fallas festival with Carlos Alva- ‘Swarming city, city full of dreams’ rez and Concha Colomer—an extreme happening dating back to In this city the middle ages involving community constructed installations, the sound of the bulldozer is banished from the land incendiary on a large scale. “Why is a British painter and poet Swingeing custodial sentences imposed (and occasional singler/songwriter and playwright) visiting on anyone designing a building finished in shuttered concrete Fallas under the auspices of Healthy Cities 2000?” Adrian asked, Car parks burst into flower before answering his own question most convincingly. narcissi, blue-flags, lillies-of-the-valley In 1997, Liverpool celebrated 150 years of public health, pushing up through the tarmac, having been the first British city to appoint a Medical Officer the streets heaped with yellow marigolds of Health (William Henry Duncan, in 1847) with whom All planning decisions are referred to Adrian shared a name—albeit spelled differently.8 Adrian The postman Ferdinand Cheval became the Public Health Artist in Residence for the year, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh set things off with his Ode to Dr Duncan.9 and Antoni Gaudi (all speaking through a medium) ODE TO DR DUNCAN “ . this Duncan This city Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been no longer an embarrassment So clear in his great efforts, that his virtues The too-much-loved-mother Will plead like angels . .” at the school speech day Shakespeare, Macbeth lipstick blurred As I was a-walking down Paradise Street smelling of gin-and-lime a figure in black I happened to meet As the sun rises over this city a smile on his face instead of a frown Your morning face on the pillow a ghost walks the streets of Liverpool Town Through strands of dark brown hair The river lying back open to the day He presses his nose to the window the lace curtains of terrace houses to see rows of whirling glass eyes Sing like school children in the brightlit launderette like a child at Christmas. This city is your mother Choking cellars of Cazneau Street and your lover Dark courts of Duke Street . She is your first thought Turning on impulse to home, he walks down Seel Street; and your last dazed by the neon lure of nightclubs, he does not notice the familiar figures She is your future and your past huddled on the steps of the Mission of Charity. http://jech.bmj.com/ Subsequently, despite a very full career as a mainstream Cheapside and Lace Street artist (both fine and performance) and poet, Adrian Henri Blind alleyways of Milton Street . became ubiquitous in public health and work for Healthy Cities. Adrian regularly taught on the Liverpool Masters in He nods approvingly at grids and litterbins, Public Health course, his mural of Esmedune (fig 1) adorns the tuts to himself as he notes cracked pavements, wall of a seminar room in the University of Liverpool’s Public burst-open black bags, polystyrene food-trays, Health Department, and Adrian contributed the video drifts of chip-papers, abandonded copies of THE BIG ISSUE. on September 24, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. Figure 1 Esmedune. www.jech.com J Epidemiol Community Health: first published as 10.1136/jech.56.1.72 on 1 January 2002. Downloaded from 74 Ashton Joined by the crimolined shade of Kitty Wilkinson, he pauses politely to offer an arm. Beyond the traffic lights their figures fade in the Grimshaw mist of the Old Dock Road. Collaborating with Maggi Morris and The Duncan Society and, most importantly, his partner Catherine Marcangeli, Adrian went on to produce and facilitate an abundance of creative riches culminating in the “Dr Duncan Art Show”, which was wrapped around an exhibition in one of the city’s museums entitled “A Healthy Place to Live” that explained many themes of 150 years of public health in Liverpool. The Dr Duncan Art Show itself brought together the work of 15 Mer- seyside painters and sculptors, hand picked by Adrian and responding to his challenge to represent what public health meant to them through their own chosen medium. Adrian’s own contribution was to be one of his last large canvasses—Dr Duncan in Seel Street (fig 2), a representation of the public health pioneer in a contemporary streetscape of his old Liver- pool stamping ground.
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