insideart 1962 2012
celebrating 50 years of arts by offenders
Koestler Trust
Solitary, HMP Lowdham Grange, Silver Award for Portraits
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ne of the largest ever exhibitions of Art by UK prisoners, has opened at the Royal Festival Hall in a 50th Anniversary celebration for the Koestler Trust.
This year the Trust received 8,095 entries - 400 more than last year. There were 5,192 for visual arts and some 3,000 other artforms, including; 229 fiction and 106 non-fiction entries, 132 life stories, 1,133 poems and 98 pieces of film or animation. The Exhibition was created by the artist Sarah Lucas who said ‘There was lots of great stuff, so I was lucky but I had some qualms about the impossibility of being fair.’ The Exhibition is on until 25 November 2012.
Self Portrait, HMP Kilmarnock, Leopold de Rothschild Charitable Trust Platinum Award for Portraits
Red Cuffs, Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre, Oil or Acrylic
Dizzie Rascal, HMP Risley, Silver Award for Portraits
All Patched Up, The Dene Hospital, Partnerships in Care Women in Secure Hospitals Platinum Award for Textile Art
Koestler Trust
Awards 2012
Big Kettle, HMP Maghaberry, Bronze Award for Mixed Media
Masterpiece, HMYOI Thorn Cross, Silver Award for Pastels
The Ghost of West Pier, Brighton, HMP Cookham Wood, Bronze Award for Oil or Acrylic
Case Conference, HMP Shotts, Bronze Award for Portraits
Alone, HMYOI Thorn Cross, Bronze Award for Portraits
Untitled, HMP Pentonville, Evelyn Plesch Highly Commended Award for Pastels
Too Many Tears, HMP Lindholme, Bronze Award for Mix
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Awards 2012
Koestler Trust
Gateway to the Great White Lodge, Isle of Man Prison, Bronze Award for Pastels
Reviving Lacroix, HMP Wakefield, Bronze Award for Mixed Media
Head Count, HMP Rye Hill, Highly Commended Award for Pastels
Clock: Koestler’s 50 Years, HMP Wakefield, Bronze Award for Theme: 50
Blue Bell Wood, HMP Greenock, Commended Award for Pastels
Koestler Trust
Parrots, Bracton Centre, Bronze Award for Mixed Media
Awards 2012
Tree Light, HMP Wandsworth, London Area NADFAS Bronze Award for Pastels
Condemned!, HMP Wayland, Bronze Award for Mixed Media
Behind the Veil, HMP Stafford, Bronze Award for Portraits
Wasted!, HMP Channings Wood, James Wood Q.C. Silver Award for Mixed Media