Offender Art: Exhibiting and Celebrating Enrichment | ESRC Seminar Series
Friday 15th November 2013, 10.30am - 5pm
BALTIC, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
This session will consider how offender participants’ work is exhibited, performed, published and publicised. It will showcase successful strategies used by organisations in publicising work to the wider public. The impact of feedback on incarcerated artists and performers will be widely debated and the link between media attention and changes in policy making will be discussed.
Speakers will include:
- Alison Redshaw and Sheree Mack – ‘Dilly Arts: Celebrating Participatory Arts Practice in North East Prisons’
- Sarah Armstrong and Jenny Wicks – Artist/curators reflect on a residency within the Scottish prison system
- Charlotte Bilby and Laura Caulfield - Exploring arts and the process of desistance from crime
Workshops include:
- Padbooks - creative writing and book binding
- Prison Radio Association - Broadcasting prisoners work through Write to be Heard
- Good Vibrations - using Gamelan music to showcase success
- The Koestler Trust - How does exhibited work in national galleries impact on the artist and the audience?
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