Exhibition
Safety Net
5 Oct 2021 – 5 Nov 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Tuesday
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Wednesday
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Thursday
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Friday
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Saturday
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Sunday
- 00:00 – 23:59
Former Salford School Board offices
Address
- Chapel Street (next to Sallford RC Cathedral)
- Salford
England - M3 5LE
- United Kingdom
Safety Net art installations - opening up the debate about suicide rates in Construction workers. These colourful installations featuring the slogan 'There is no health without mental health' aim to raise much-needed awareness about this issue.
About
Construction. The deadliest workplace sector in the UK?
Men working in the Construction industry are struggling. Every single working day two Construction workers will take their own lives. More than 1,400 UK Construction workers took their own lives between 2011 and 2015, according to ONS statistics, more than three times the national average for men.
This inspired Manchester-based textile artist Dr Lynn Setterington to devise Safety Net, two large-scale art installations, measuring 14m x 13m, to encourage us all to consider the army of people who work in the sector and the issues they face.
Using the thought-provoking statement ‘There is no health without mental health’, the installations are on full view at the old education board offices Chapel Street, Salford, owned by the Diocese of Salford, and the second on the Deluna Apartments, Oldham Rd, owned by Northhold Group.
Lynn said, ‘The installations aim to open up conversations and new ways of working with the Construction sector, including innovative ways to break down the stigma about men’s mental health.’
Setterington hopes to open up the debate about mental health in Construction during the run up to World Mental Health Day on 10th October and beyond.
The project is funded by the National Lottery Project Grants is the Arts Council’s open access programme for arts, museums, and libraries projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community, and cultural organisations thanks to National Lottery investment.