Manual Ref* NFnrNOR171 Show 3 images 797
Title*

Ken McKee CBE and Hugh Phillips
County Norfolk   District Council Norwich City Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Norwich  Town/Village* Norwich - University Hospital 
Road Colney Lane, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust 
Precise Location East Atrium level 2 
OS Grid Ref TG182072  Postcode NR4 
Previous location(s)  
Setting In hospital atrium  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Glyn Rolph (Phillips)  Sculptor(s)   
Miriam McKee (McKee)  Sculptor(s)   

Commissioned by

 The bust of McKee was presented to the Hospital Trust by Hugh Phillips and Keith Tucker in June 2004, the head of Hugh Phillips by his colleagues in 2006 

Design & Constrn period

 2006 (Phillips) and 1988 (McKee) 

Date of installing

 2006 and 2004 McKee 

Exact date of unveiling

  

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type: Portrait busts

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Head of Hugh Phillips  Bronze  H. 39 W. 19 E. 23 cms. 
Bust of Kenneth McKee  Bronze  H. 40 W. 25 D. 25 cms. 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Hospital Arts Priject, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail:

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail: The display is in danger of being overwhelmed by the coffee stall

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions On plinth of McKee: A SCULPTURE OF HER FATHER IN LAW BY MYRIAM MCKEE/ GEORGE KENNETH McKEE/CBE. ScD (HON) FRCS/ 1906-1991/ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON TO THE/ NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL/PIONEER OF TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT/ PRESENTED TO THE TRUST BY/ HUGH PHILLIPS FRCS/ AND/ KEITH TUCKER FRCS/ 26th JUNE 2004 On head of Hugh Phillips: HUGH PHILLIPS DL FRCS 1940-2005/ PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL/ COLLEGE OF SURGEONS /OF ENGLAND/2004-2005/ ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON. NORFOLK AND NORWICH/ HOSPITAL/ 1975-2004/ PRESENTED TO THE TRUST/ BY HIS COLLEAGUES 

Description (physical)

 The bust of McKee is set on on a tall green marble plinth. He is shown wearing a jacket and bow tie, while Phillips's head, with his heavy glasses, is set on a fossil limestone. Both are part of the Trust's collection of such busts, whose display will be rotated. 

Description (iconographical)

 Both portraits belong to the tradition of revealing as much as possible of the surface of the sitter's face, appropriate for two distinguished orthopaedic surgeons. Ken McKee joined the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital as an orthopaedic surgeon in 1939. He was an early enthusiast for total joint replacement, but his early cases, demonstrated in 1951 and 1951, were received critically. He continued to improve the procedure, with the assistance of John Watson-Farrar, a consultant at the Norfolk and Norwich, publishing a classic account of the procedure in 1966. McKee was one of the key pioneers in this field together with Sir John Charnley of Manchester, who had at first been sceptical about McKee's new procedure. McKee was awarded the CBE in 1972. In addition to the bronze bust cast by his daughter-in-law, the Belgian sculptor Myriam McKee, Ken McKee's work at the hospital is remembered with a residence block, McKee House, at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and a road, Kenneth McKee Plain, built on the former N&N site Hugh Phillips, surgeon: born London 19 March 1940, died Norwich 24 June 2005. Over many years of consistently determined hard work, Hugh Phillips earned a reputation with his surgical colleagues as a significant contributor to resolution of the current complex difficulties facing the profession. In 1975 Phillips joined the Orthopaedic Department at the Norfolk and Norwich, developing the pioneering work of G.K. McKee and John Watson-Farrar. His hip and knee surgical expertise became widely recognised and under his leadership the Orthopaedic Department increased from six surgeons, when he joined, to 17. Hugh Phillips was elected President of the Hip Society in 1999, and of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1992. He was elected President of the British Orthopaedic Association in 1999 and, having been elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1995, his communication abilities and clear views led to his election as president of the college in 2003.  

Photographs

 Date taken:  14/2/2007
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  15/6/2006

Inspected by:
David Hulks

Sources and References

 Information from Emma Jarvis, Hospital Arts Project Co-ordinator; Batty Shaw, A., Norfolk & Norwich Medicine: A retrospect, Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1992, p.30; Hugh Phillips, Obituary, Independent, 24 July 2005 

Database

 Date entered:  18/1/2008

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke