Making Time - Every Prison A Creative Hub
if you have problems getting in please contact LovePrint and we can arrange to let you in. Email: hello@loveprintgroup.com open 13-14:00
Making Time – Every Prison a Creative Hub, An Exhibition
Open to the public from 13:00-14:00
21, 22, 23, 28, 29 November and 5,6,11,13th December.
Entry is free but booking is required
Making Time – Every Prison a Creative Hub, An Exhibition
‘Making Time – Every Prison a Creative Hub’, an exhibition at the Hoxtonian Gallery, co-curated by Professor Lorraine Gamman of Design Against Crime research lab at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and Rex Gardner and staff at Love Print, Hoxton.
The exhibition showcases some of the outcomes of a series of eight ‘creative co-production engagements’ with prisoners from HMP Downview, HMP Isis, HMP Standford Hill, HMP Wandsworth, and HMP Peterborough. These activities, still seen by some as a ‘luxury’ for prisoners, demonstrate the value of creative interactions as a pragmatic source of skills-building and rehabilitation.
Following their involvement in the design and creation of the works featured in the show, prisoners reported increased feelings of ownership, creativity, confidence, determination and hope. Other benefits include development of communication skills, problem solving, critical thinking, relationship building, resilience and well-being.
Rex Gardner of Love Print said:
“I am delighted to support this project because UK prisoners need a second chance to try and make good, and show themselves and the world what skills they can find and what they can do once they've let go of crime" .
Prisoners are often locked in their cells for up to 23 hours a day, without access to education or creative resources. More than half of the prison population is neurodiverse, and many respond positively to making and learning through doing, rather than through traditional teaching and learning approaches. Yet, creative and vocational training is not systematically offered in today’s prisons.
Professor Lorraine Gamman of Design Against Crime research lab at Central Saint Martins observes:
“The evidence indicates that creative learning can help reduce crime. It delivers useful vocational skills and fuels different internal dialogues and aspirations that lead some prisoners to start to change from within, and to find a route towards paid work and desistance" .
This exhibition and the impact on the participating prisoners, poses the question ‘Why not train prisoners to learn new skills, engage creatively and use their time productively to show themselves and others what they can do?
The exhibition is presented in association with exhibitors from : Design Against Crime, Central Saint Martins,Here, Love Print, Stretch Outsider Art Festival, HMP and YOI Isis, Goldsmiths University of London, Making for Change and The Unlocked Room.
if you have problems getting in please contact LovePrint and we can arrange to let you in. Email: hello@loveprintgroup.com open 13-14:00
Making Time – Every Prison a Creative Hub, An Exhibition
Open to the public from 13:00-14:00
21, 22, 23, 28, 29 November and 5,6,11,13th December.
Entry is free but booking is required
Making Time – Every Prison a Creative Hub, An Exhibition
‘Making Time – Every Prison a Creative Hub’, an exhibition at the Hoxtonian Gallery, co-curated by Professor Lorraine Gamman of Design Against Crime research lab at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and Rex Gardner and staff at Love Print, Hoxton.
The exhibition showcases some of the outcomes of a series of eight ‘creative co-production engagements’ with prisoners from HMP Downview, HMP Isis, HMP Standford Hill, HMP Wandsworth, and HMP Peterborough. These activities, still seen by some as a ‘luxury’ for prisoners, demonstrate the value of creative interactions as a pragmatic source of skills-building and rehabilitation.
Following their involvement in the design and creation of the works featured in the show, prisoners reported increased feelings of ownership, creativity, confidence, determination and hope. Other benefits include development of communication skills, problem solving, critical thinking, relationship building, resilience and well-being.
Rex Gardner of Love Print said:
“I am delighted to support this project because UK prisoners need a second chance to try and make good, and show themselves and the world what skills they can find and what they can do once they've let go of crime" .
Prisoners are often locked in their cells for up to 23 hours a day, without access to education or creative resources. More than half of the prison population is neurodiverse, and many respond positively to making and learning through doing, rather than through traditional teaching and learning approaches. Yet, creative and vocational training is not systematically offered in today’s prisons.
Professor Lorraine Gamman of Design Against Crime research lab at Central Saint Martins observes:
“The evidence indicates that creative learning can help reduce crime. It delivers useful vocational skills and fuels different internal dialogues and aspirations that lead some prisoners to start to change from within, and to find a route towards paid work and desistance" .
This exhibition and the impact on the participating prisoners, poses the question ‘Why not train prisoners to learn new skills, engage creatively and use their time productively to show themselves and others what they can do?
The exhibition is presented in association with exhibitors from : Design Against Crime, Central Saint Martins,Here, Love Print, Stretch Outsider Art Festival, HMP and YOI Isis, Goldsmiths University of London, Making for Change and The Unlocked Room.