Everyone Everyday Evermore

Forth Valley Royal Hospital, 2024

Organ and Tissue Donation Memorial Sculpture
Commissioned for Forth Valley Royal Hospital, by NHS Forth Valley, Organ and Tissue Donation Committee. Project managed by Artlink Central.
Devised and developed through co-creation and public engagement from 2021 – 2023.
Installed and launched in September 2024
12 meters long x 5 meters tall x 0.5 meters deep
366 laser cut acrylic signatures
4200 meters of 0.6mm stainless steel cable
1464 copper ferrules

www.artlinkcentral.org/otdmemorial

“I see the sculpture as an abstract and organic memorial. It does not list particular dates or formally document specific individuals. Instead it brings together a community of 366 people, recorded only by their hand-signed first name. This community of names is made up of three communities; the recipients of a transplant, the donors or relatives of donors, and NHS staff who facilitate transplants. The placement of the names, and their connection is random, the 366 names represents a transplant ‘story’ for everyday of the year.

Hand-writing like fingerprints symbolise our individuality and uniqueness, they also refer to the traditions of contracts, agreements and commitments that we create with other people.”

Hans K Clausen