This paper explores the role of the curator in the modern hospital through an international qualitative study of ten professionals working as arts managers / curators in English speaking hospitals.

The research project set out to explore of the role of the curator in the modern hospital, through an international qualitative study of ten professionals working as arts managers/curators in English speaking hospitals. The focus of the project was to explore the specialist nature of the role of the modern curator in hospital with emphasis on patient preferences, types of arts intervention (particularly the role of receptive and participative arts), the aesthetic environment and the curator’s contribution to restoring aesthetic support in an arguably aesthetically deprived milieu.