National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance

Drawing Connections... at The Edges
2019-01-30 - 2019-04-30 | Cambridge – generic, Cambridge, United Kingdom
30th January – April 2019
Opening event Wednesday 30th January (from 2pm)
Radzinowicz Library, University of Cambridge
Free
Drawing Connections will exhibit work from an eight-week project bringing together residents at HMP Springhill with students from the local Banbury and Bicester College Art Faculty in a series of artist-led workshops held at HMP Springhill.
In addition to selected works from the project, visitors will be able to see the library’s permanent selection of Koestler Awards artworks – and meet participants and enjoy light refreshments at the exhibition’s opening on 30th January.
The exhibition continues until April 2019.
Please confirm attendance by emailing crimlib@hermes.cam.ac.uk
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Image courtesy of Rebecca Greene

We Made This: Koestler Trust at Turner Contemporary
2019-03-01 - 2019-05-19 | Margate, Margate, United Kingdom
1st March – 19th May
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Free
The Koestler Trust is staging its first exhibition in the South East at Margate’s Turner Contemporary.
We Made This features over 70 artworks made by people in prisons, young offender institutions, secure hospitals and on probation in Kent and Sussex will be on display. Creations include paintings, sculpture, music, poetry, needlework and craft; drawn from artworks submitted from Kent and Sussex establishments for the 2018 Koestler Awards.
A group of people on probation are curating the exhibition – service users from the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company (KSSCRC).
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Image: Pi Equals 3, Bracton Centre, courtesy of Koestler Trust
