We know the visual environment of a healthcare facility influences health outcomes.
In a busy hospital, the artist can be a collaborator, someone who can synthesise complexity, hold space for new ideas, and slow things down just enough for the right thing to emerge.
Holding space
for new ideas.
Minta brings research-led creative practice into healthcare settings to contribute to healing and hopeful environments.
Where this work comes from
The belief at the centre of Minta's arts in healthcare practice is simple: people in hospitals are already carrying something heavy. The environment around them should make them feel human.
This is what drives the research, the co-creation, the decisions made between brief and installation. The moment someone walks past something on a wall and feels, unexpectedly, that they belong here, that someone thought about them before they arrived - that’s where this work comes from.
What working with Minta actually looks like
Large-scale envirographics programs
Site-specific visual narratives spanning corridors, wards, stairwells, and transition spaces. Co-created with communities, grounded in evidence, and built to endure within the regulatory requirements of healthcare infrastructure.
Co-creation workshops
Designed for children, families, and staff. These sessions gather the lived experience that becomes the foundation of the visual work. They are not focus groups. They are generative, responsive, and held with care.
Illustrated resources
Bespoke illustrated materials that support clinical communication, wayfinding, and the patient experience. Work that makes the clinical feel a little more human.
Minta's arts in healthcare work takes different forms depending on what a project needs.
On a large program, these are woven together.
The workshops inform the envirographics.
The envirographics inspire the resources.
The whole becomes more than the sum of its parts
A note on co-creation
Minta's co-creation approach is grounded in the following ethics:
Workshops are designed with careful attention to the conditions that allow participants to contribute safely, comfortably, and at their own pace. Contributions are welcomed without pressure for originality, clarity, or completion. Repetition, revision, and rest are understood as meaningful forms of expression.
Participants' contributions are held lightly and interpreted with care. They are not positioned as data, or used to make claims beyond what the context allows. Ambiguity is protected. Imperfection is 100% honoured.
The resulting drawings, conversations, and handwritten notes passed across tables are intended to sit alongside care, supporting comfort, familiarity, and hope, without adding emotional burden to those already navigating complex circumstances.
The Practice
Minta is led by Rach Viski, the person who will be your primary point of contact from brief to handover.
But Minta is a practice, not a solo show. Depending on what a project needs, Rach may draw on a trusted network of specialists: animators, copywriters, engagement facilitators, fabricators, and installers. Assembled project by project, always in service of the work, always coordinated by Rach.
This means you don't need to manage a team. You get a practiced collaborator with the right people already behind her.
Past Projects
