Soweto selected his exhibition from fine art, design, music and writing entered into the 2019 Koestler Awards from criminal justice settings across the UK. There were over 150 artworks on display, from music and poetry to paintings, drawings and sculpture. The title for the exhibition invited visitors to reassess their perceptions of people who have spent time inside.
Soweto Kinch’s curation of Another Me was part of a partnership with live music producers Serious as part of their Giant Steps talent development programme, which is funded by Help Musicians UK, Serious Trust, and Arts Council England.
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Watch highlights from the show in our exhibition film, and hear from behind the scenes of the curation process with Soweto Kinch on our YouTube playlist
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View a selection of artworks from the exhibition in the gallery below.
What’s The Soup Today?
Littlehampton Probation Service, Gill Hope Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media
Marie Louise von Motesiczky Scholarship Award, 2019
Wasted
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Norwich, Transformation Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Untitled
Oakhill Secure Training Centre, Lord Ramsbotham Commended Award for Portrait, 2019
Umbrellas
Ann House (secure mental health unit), Roger Graef Highly Commended Award for Photography, 2019
Wishful Thinking
HM Prison Oakwood, Painting, 2019
Time Perception
HM Prison Bure, Si Pickard Commended Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
The Meadow
Koestler Arts Mentoring Scheme, Christine Wong JP’s One to Watch Gold Award for Mixed Media
The Inner Child
Koestler Arts Mentoring Scheme, Portrait, Marie Louise von Motesiczky Scholar, 2019
Transition 3
HM Prison Warren Hill, Commended Award for Needlecraft, 2019
Transition 2
HM Prison Warren Hill, Needlecraft, 2019
Transition 1
HM Prison Warren Hill, Needlecraft, 2019
Top Hat
HM Prison Send, David Wentworth Platinum Award for Fashion, 2019
Tiki Face
HM Prison Kilmarnock, Sculpture, 2019
Self Portrait
Vinney Green Secure Unit (secure children’s home), Charlotte McNally Silver Award for Portrait, 2019
Saturday is Match Day
HM Prison Whatton, Silver Award for Painting, The Monument Trust Scholar, 2019
The Test
HM Prison Greenock, Highly Commended Award for Painting, 2019
The Pembrokeshire Puffin
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Parc, Painting, 2019
The Last Smile
HM Young Offender Institution Wetherby, Jake Taylor Commended Award for Portrait, 2019
The #9 Bus
HM Prison Isle of Wight (Albany), Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
That Was Then, This Is Now
Broadmoor Hospital, Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Take a Break
HM Prison Elmley (Sheppey Cluster), Hilda May Bronze Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Surreal Abstract Sight
HM Prison Garth, Sir Hugh Casson Bronze Award for Drawing, 2019
Stories, Socks & Jay Cloths
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Low Newton, John Crockett Highly Commended Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Stand Alone
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Parc, Carmelite Chambers Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Stained Glass Superman
HM Prison Edinburgh, Frederick Davies Commended Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Stage 5 Soul Cancer
HM Prison Lewes, E. Forster Highly Commended Award for Handmade Book, 2019
Spot The Difference
HM Prison Wakefield, Drawing, 2019
Sleep Eat Repeat (triptych)
Heatherwood Court Hospital, Portrait, 2019
Shaping Up
HM Prison Wakefield, Mixed Media, 2019
Self
Vinney Green Secure Unit (secure children’s home), Carmelite Chambers First-Time Entrant Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Seated Woman
HM Prison Glenochil, Edmund Paton Walsh European Unity Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Sassy Diva
HM Prison Long Lartin, Mixed Media, 2019
Romantic Interlude
The Spinney (secure mental health unit), Commended Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Rest Period
HM Prison Addiewell, Fay & Malcolm Payne Commended Award for Craft, 2019
Reinforcements
HM Prison Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster), Needlecraft, 2019
Querulous Insomnia
HM Prison Shotts, Painting, 2019
Prison Interlude
HM Prison Usk, Portrait, 2019
Prison Inspired Card Deck
HM Prison Huntercombe, Space Station Sixty-Five Platinum Award for Printmaking, 2019
Prison Break
HM Prison Whatton, Bowman Smart Bronze Award for Textile Art, 2019
Piggin Out
St Mary’s Hospital, Painting, 2019
Photograph 9
Guernsey Prison, Keith Bromley Bronze Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 8
Guernsey Prison, Keith Bromley Bronze Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 7
Guernsey Prison, Keith Bromley Bronze Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 6
Guernsey Prison, Keith Bromley Bronze Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 5
Guernsey Prison, Margaret Macdonald Platinum Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 4
Guernsey Prison, Margaret Macdonald Platinum Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 3
Guernsey Prison, Margaret Macdonald Platinum Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 2
Guernsey Prison, Margaret Macdonald Platinum Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 10
Guernsey Prison, Keith Bromley Bronze Award for Photography, 2019
Photograph 1
Guernsey Prison, Margaret Macdonald Platinum Award for Photography, 2019
Peacock Canvas
The Ayr Clinic (secure mental health unit), Mixed Media, 2019
Parole Board – Hear Me I’ve Got Something I’d Like to Say
HM Prison Warren Hill, Brent Silver Silver Award for Arts Project, 2019
Out to Lunch
Camden and Islington Probation Service, Painting, 2019
Origami Officer
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Parc, Craft, 2019
Old Man in a Topi Cap
The Spinney (secure mental health unit), Rosemary Bartholomew Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Now You See Me
Arbury Court (secure mental health unit), Sir Joseph Pilling Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Nitrouonites: Future Fossils & Hi Man
Camden and Islington Probation Service, Carmina Highly Commended Award for Sculpture, 2019
My Broken Arm (Painted With My Broken Arm!)
HM Young Offender Institution Feltham, Arts Society Chiswick Platinum Award for Painting, 2019
Jacob’s Ladder
Koestler Arts Mentoring Scheme, Carmelite Chambers Gold Award for Painting, Evelyn Plesch Scholar, 2018
Mona-Keys
HM Prison Whatton, Painting, 2019
Mind Racing
Bracton Centre (secure mental health unit), Drawing, 2019
Method of Creation
HM Prison Elmley (Sheppey Cluster), Good-Sothinathan Commended Award for Portrait, 2019
Mechanical Warfare
HM Prison Shotts, Commended Award for Digital Art, 2019
Me, Myself and I
HM Young Offender Institution Wetherby, 5RB Media and Communications Law Gold Award for Portrait, 2019
Many Men
HM Young Offender Institution Rochester, Painting, 2019
Man in Mask
HM Prison Isle of Wight (Albany), Respect Highly Commended Award for Portrait, 2019
Man and Boy and Unity
HM Prison Elmley (Sheppey Cluster), Kath & Harry Bryan Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Life outside the pipe
HM Prison Shotts, gigs4charity Bronze Award for Painting, 2019
Life – Organised Chaos
Ashford Probation Service (KSS CRC), Knox Cropper Highly Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Knitting the Fishing Net
HM Prison Dovegate, Painting, 2019
It’s Been A While
HM Prison Spring Hill, Commended Award for Drawing, 2019
It’s A Jungle Out There
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Grampian, Painting, 2019
It Can’t Rain All The Time
HM Prison Barlinnie, Long Family Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Introspection
HM Prison Wandsworth, Pierce Brunt Highly Commended Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Interludes
HM Prison Wakefield, Lady Bishopston First-Time Entrant Award for Matchstick Model, 2019
Inside 2 Outside = Hope
HM Prison Wakefield, Sculpture, 2019
Innocent Man
HM Prison Glenochil, Sir Stephen & Lady Winifred Tumim Gold Award for Mixed Media, 2019
I Wonder
HM Prison Magilligan, Painting, 2019
Headache
Koestler Arts Mentoring Scheme, Stockwell Silver Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Horned Beast
HM Prison Shotts, Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Hoo Are You Looking at?
HM Prison Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster), First-Time Entrant Award for Painting, 2019
Homeless. Caramel Biscuit, Heineken 0% and Swiss White Chocolate
Camden and Islington Probation Service, Caro Millington Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Holloway Women’s Building Game
Camden and Islington Probation Service, Zelga & Stuart Miller Platinum Award for Graphic Novel, 2019
Hiding in the flowers
Hiding in the Flowers, HM Prison Edinburgh, School of Law – Royal Holloway University of London Gold Award for Painting, 2019
Help! I’ve been Condensed
HM Prison Shotts, Painting, 2019
Freddie Mercury
Dudley and Sandwell Probation Service, Berwick Silver Award for Portrait, 2019
Freddie Mercury
Dudley and Sandwell Probation Service, Berwick Silver Award for Portrait, 2019
Grumpy Gorilla
HM Prison Lewes, Matchstick Model, 2019
Green Screen Advertisement
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Grampian, School of Law – Royal Holloway University of London Platinum Award for Film, 2019
Gis A Job!
Aberdeen Probation Service, Painting, 2019
Genesis 6:7
HM Prison Shotts, 5RB Media and Communications Law Bronze Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Fish Out of Water
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Exeter, Jack & Louisa Handley Highly Commended Award for Mural and Wall Hanging, 2019
Even the Shirt from the Back
HM Prison Hull, Dalrymple Silver Award for Fashion, 2019
Empty Stare
HM Prison Long Lartin, Avis Allum Bronze Award for Portrait, 2019
Emotional
HM Prison Woodhill, Portrait, 2019
Emotion
HM Prison Bronzefield, Sodexo Justice Services Commended Award for Watercolour and Gouache, 2019
Dream,
HM Prison Oakwood, Painting, 2019
Dream 1
River House (secure mental health unit), Ariane Banks Platinum Award for Painting, 2019
Doubting Thomas
Ty Newydd Approved Premises, Patrick Holmes Platinum Award for Painting, 2019
Double Blank
HM Prison Glenochil, Tim Robertson Gold Award for Handmade Book, 2019
David Hockney
Hackney Probation Service, Belpech Trust Silver Award for Printmaking, Marie Louise von Motesiczky Scholar, 2018
Dinosaur Skeleton
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Rochester, John Nolan Highly Commended Award for Sculpture, 2019
Dementia
The Redwoods Centre (secure mental health unit), James Wood QC Silver Award for Portrait, 2019
Consequences
HM Prison Warren Hill, Victor Roberts Highly Commended Award for Painting, 2019
Crocodile
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Rochester, Phillip King Silver Award for Sculpture, 2019
Crazy Faces
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Rochester, Painting, 2019
Coed Village
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Parc, Inspiration Platinum Award for Arts Project, 2019
Change of Scene
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Parc, School of Law – Royal Holloway University of London Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Chained
Prisoners Abroad, Lamberth Highly Commended Award for Sculpture, 2019
Breakfast Mask
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Hollesley Bay, Felix Kelly Highly Commended Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Carved Crayons
HM Prison Lewes, Sotheby’s Platinum Award for Sculpture, 2019
Buster Boy
Bracton Centre (secure mental health unit), Portrait, 2019
Bust
Koestler Arts Mentoring Scheme, Ceramics, The Monument Trust Scholar, 2016
Brain Wash
HM Prison Altcourse, Highly Commended Award for Sculpture, 2019
Blooming Useful
HM Prison & Young Offender Institution New Hall, Needlecraft, 2019
Between Bars
HM Prison Isle of Wight (Albany), TVMole Commended Award for Themed Category: Interlude, 2019
Back On In 5
HM Prison Full Sutton, Commended Award for Portrait, 2019
B.A.M.E.L.G.B.T.Q.I
HM Prison Isle of Wight (Albany), Highly Commended Award for Portrait, 2019
Aquarium
HM Prison Leicester, Painting, 2019
Angie
HM Prison Long Lartin, First-Time Entrant Award for Mixed Media, 2019
All Messed Up (A Self Portrait)
HM Prison Full Sutton, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Platinum Award for Portrait, 2019
A Saur Eye
HM Prison Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster), Painting, 2019
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
Littlehampton Probation Service, Julia Rogerson Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media, Marie Louise von Motesiczky Scholar, 2019
5th Element
The Spinney (secure mental health unit), Elysium Healthcare First-Time Entrant Award for Painting, 2019
1st Rule of Prison
HM Prison Wakefield, Commended Award for Sculpture, 2019
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Wimbledon Probation Service, Zelda Cheatle Highly Commended Award for Mixed Media, 2019
Winter Sunshine on Stockland Hill, Devon
Salisbury Probation Service, Artists’ Collecting Society Gold Award for Watercolour and Gouache
The Monument Trust Scholarship Award, 2018
Boxed in Trilogy (triptych)
HM Prison Hewell, Painting, 2019