PAINT A BOX BY GILLIAN CROWE
LATE NIGHT DELIVERY AT THE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL BY GILLIAN CROWE [PHOTOGRAPHED OCTOBER 2025]
This dates from 2023 and it was located at the corner of Upper Dominick Street and Dorset Street, but it is now effectively part of a very large building site.
This artwork depicts the Rotunda Hospital, the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. The hospital was opened in 1745 by surgeon-midwife Bartholomew Mosse to provide medical care for destitute mothers, and to train midwives and surgeons. Originally located on the southside at George’s Lane, the hospital moved to its present location in 1757 where it has remained open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year ever since. Today, over 9,000 babies are born in the Rotunda each year, making it the busiest maternity hospital in Europe and the largest in Ireland.
Gillian's Biography: I am a junior doctor working in the Rotunda specialising in Anaesthesia. I work with 14 other junior doctors and 10 consultants to provide safe, effective anaesthesia and analgesia for labour, Caesarean section and a variety of other surgeries as well as providing high dependency care for critically unwell patients. It is a very busy but very rewarding job. When not doing epidurals at all hours of the day and night, I do some very bad drawing and lots of rowing.
This dates from 2023 and it was located at the corner of Upper Dominick Street and Dorset Street, but it is now effectively part of a very large building site.
This artwork depicts the Rotunda Hospital, the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. The hospital was opened in 1745 by surgeon-midwife Bartholomew Mosse to provide medical care for destitute mothers, and to train midwives and surgeons. Originally located on the southside at George’s Lane, the hospital moved to its present location in 1757 where it has remained open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year ever since. Today, over 9,000 babies are born in the Rotunda each year, making it the busiest maternity hospital in Europe and the largest in Ireland.
Gillian's Biography: I am a junior doctor working in the Rotunda specialising in Anaesthesia. I work with 14 other junior doctors and 10 consultants to provide safe, effective anaesthesia and analgesia for labour, Caesarean section and a variety of other surgeries as well as providing high dependency care for critically unwell patients. It is a very busy but very rewarding job. When not doing epidurals at all hours of the day and night, I do some very bad drawing and lots of rowing.