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Inside

Curated by Antony Gormley

21 September – 15 November 2017
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

Antony Gormley, the renowned artist, curated our 10th annual UK exhibition in partnership with Southbank Centre, showcasing artworks entered into the 2017 Koestler Awards from prisons, secure hospitals, immigration removal centres and people on probation across the UK.

This show responded to the theme ‘Inside’, set by Gormley, and aimed to get people talking about the UK’s criminal justice system.

Gormley told us: “I want to celebrate this great resource: the imaginations of the 85,000 prisoners currently in UK prisons and those in secure establishments. Art is a place in which you can do what you like; it need not be for or about anyone else but the artist. In the words of one prisoner, ‘in our minds we can always be free’. I want this work to say something to all of us outside about what it feels like to be a detainee, inside.”

Watch

Hear from Antony Gormley about what the theme of this year’s exhibition, Inside, means to him.

Watch here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkpY34M3Bfw

Online Gallery

Writing Home

HM Prison Swaleside
First-Time Entrant Award for Watercolour
2017

White Tree Hands/The Way

HM Prison Wakefield
Graphic Novel
2017

A thumbnail preview of Trapped, Inside, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Trapped, Inside

HM Prison Peterborough
Mixed Media
2017

Tidal Barrier

HM Prison Hull
Highly Commended Award for Painting
2017

A thumbnail preview of The Dream Door is Too Small, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

The Dream Door is Too Small

Katherine Price Hughes House
Painting
2017

A thumbnail preview of Play Time, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Play Time

Camden and Islington Probation
Drawing
2017

Letter to My Mother

HM Prison Channings Wood
First-Time Entrant Award for Watercolour
2017

A thumbnail preview of It’s Transparent in Black and White, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

It’s Transparent in Black and White

HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Styal (women’s establishment)
Mixed Media
2017

A thumbnail preview of Inside my Prison; Outside my Prison Cell, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Inside my Prison; Outside my Prison Cell

HM Prison Liverpool
Drawing
2017

A thumbnail preview of Inside a Cell, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Inside a Cell

HM Prison Lewes
Sculpture
2017

I Think it Therefore I Am

HM Prison Eastwood Park (women’s establishment)
Commended Award for Painting
2017

A thumbnail preview of Heads, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Heads

HM Prison Standford Hill
Ceramics
2017

A thumbnail preview of Female Officer, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Female Officer

HM Prison Lewes
Sculpture
2017

A thumbnail preview of First Light in February, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

First Light in February

HM Prison Channings Wood
Watercolour and Gouache
2017

A thumbnail preview of Explaining my Acquired Brain Injury, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Explaining my Acquired Brain Injury

St Andrew’s Healthcare Northampton (secure mental health unit)
Pastel
2017

A thumbnail preview of Cornflower Blue, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Cornflower Blue

HM Prison Leyhill
Needlecraft
2017

A thumbnail preview of Colour Within, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Colour Within

HM Prison Lewes
Pastel
2017

A thumbnail preview of Authentic HMP Collage Greetings, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Authentic HMP Collage Greetings

Camden and Islington Probation
Handmade Greeting Card
2017

Am I Laughing, or Am I Screaming Inside?

HM Prison Lewes
Mixed Media
2017

A thumbnail preview of Broken Person, an example of Visual Art work from the Inside exhibition.

Broken Person

HM Prison Peterborough
Portrait
2017