The BBC published a piece on Kurt Jackson’s sculpture made from recycled personal protective equipment (PPE) that was recently unveiled at Treliske hospital to mark six years since the first Covid lockdown.
Kurt Jackson designed The Nurse’s Hands – a pair of cupped hands wearing surgical gloves – as a tribute to “those who care and those we lost” during the pandemic.
The piece now stands in the Critical Care Healing Garden at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
Jackson used PPE that had been collected and recycled on site, after learning about the hospital’s efforts to reuse materials. Dr Joe Parker, who works in intensive care, said using PPE to make the sculpture would “be heard and felt by everyone” at the hospital.