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ART by OFFENDERS, SECURE PATIENTS and DETAINEES from the 2015 KOESTLER AWARDS Welcome Koestler Awards ART BY OFFENDERS, SECURE PATIENTS AND DETAINEES FROM THE 2015 KOESTLER AWARDS Welcome Koestler Awards ‘I am very proud to be part of the RE:FORM All the work in RE:FORM was selected from 8,509 exhibition and hope that visitors will see entries to the 2015 Koestler Awards. The annual that positive things can come from prisons.’ Koestler Awards were founded in 1962 by the writer Exhibited artist Arthur Koestler and newspaper proprietor David Astor. Koestler (1905 – 1983) was a political prisoner RE:FORM is the UK’s annual national showcase and wrote the classic prison novel Darkness at Noon. of arts by prisoners, offenders on community Contributions come from prisons, secure hospitals, sentences, secure psychiatric patients and young offender institutions, secure children’s immigration detainees. It is the eighth exhibition homes and immigration removal centres, as well as in an ongoing partnership between the Koestler from people on community service orders and on Trust and Southbank Centre. probation in the community. Entries are also received from British prisoners overseas through a partnership This year’s show was curated by the Southbank with the charity Prisoners Abroad. Centre and the Koestler Trust to showcase many of the pieces chosen for Koestler Awards by over Entrants can submit artworks across 61 different 100 arts professionals (including Jeremy Deller, categories of fine and applied arts, design, music, Alan Kane, Carol Ann Duffy, the BFI and writing, film and animation. The artworks are judged Hot Chip) and the breadth of talent and creativity by professionals in each field. This year’s judges of people within the criminal justice system. included the V&A (Printmaking), the National A selection of poetry and prose is included within Theatre (Drama), Hot Chip (Computer Generated the exhibition and on pages 19 – 22. Specially Music), Speech Debelle (Hip-hop, Rap and Grime), commissioned texts on pages 6 –18 by artists and Carol Ann Duffy (Poem). Every entrant receives Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, curator and writer a participation certificate, and most receive written Shama Khanna, editor of Afterall Books Caroline feedback about their artwork from a judge or Woodley and previous Koestler Award-winner a member of the Koestler arts team. Ben add insight and context to the artworks. Around a third of all entrants receive an award, Working alongside Southbank Centre exhibition ranging from Commended to Platinum, and many of hosts, to welcome visitors and invigilate the these are named by supporters of the Koestler Trust. exhibition, are ex-offenders, specially recruited, The higher awards carry a cash prize – from £20 trained and employed by the Koestler Trust. for a Bronze Award to £100 for a Platinum Award. As well as gaining unique work experience and Each year the prize money totals around £30,000. new skills, the hosts deepen visitors’ engagement Selections for Koestler exhibitions are made with the exhibition, enabling everyone to hear from the Awards submissions by in-house or guest first-hand how the arts reflect and enrich the lives curators. The 2015/16 Awards year includes the of people in secure and criminal justice settings. annual UK show in London, as well as programmes The Koestler Trust hosts will be available in Edinburgh (of works from Scotland) and from 11am till 8pm daily. They will lead free Gateshead (of works from North East England). exhibition tours – see the back page for tour times. The Koestler Trust hosts’ training and employment has been generously supported by: David Banks Clifford Chance Foundation Michael Varah Memorial Fund Patrick Holmes Southbank Centre An additional anonymous individual Pencils in Milk Carton, HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Parc, The Lamb Building Chambers Commended Award for Mixed Media, acrylic, printed paper and wallpaper on paper | Front Cover Image: Warrior, Guernsey Prison, Ed King Silver Award for Portraits, mixed media and recycled metal 3 Each year the Koestler Awards feature a themed Not all the exhibited artists have committed crimes. Visitors’ Feedback category to which entrants can respond in any As well as those on remand or in secure children’s artform. Many entrants find that having a theme homes, around 20% of entrants to the Koestler It means a huge amount to artists in prisons and offers a starting point and extra motivation to Awards are patients in medium or high security other secure settings to know that their work is being participate. This year, the Koestler Trust’s Twitter mental health units, where the arts can be therapeutic seen and appreciated. Feedback cards are available and Facebook users chose the theme Journey. or educational. at the exhibition entrance or from hosts. There are Works made in response to the theme are spread special Koestler Awards, funded by Doughty Street throughout the show, helping tie it together The UK has four special hospitals which provide Chambers, for the artworks that receive the most with reflections on journeys through the criminal psychiatric care at the highest level of security. cards from visitors. justice system, life and learning. Patients with a broader range of mental health needs are treated in medium secure units across the country. Most patients in medium and high secure settings Southbank Centre are referred by criminal justice agencies and detained Ursa Major under mental health law. There is substantial research Southbank Centre is extremely pleased to evidence of the benefits of the arts on mental health, develop our ongoing partnership with the Koestler On November 12th 2014 a great bear such as improved self-esteem and social skills. Trust, in this our eighth year of collaboration. Escaped from Gretzky Circus in Moscow The Koestler Trust’s work with art from secure The partnership is led by Southbank Centre’s And ventured northward hospitals is supported by Partnerships in Care. Festival programming team, who work directly Snatching fish from ice lidded lakes with audiences, participants and contributors Reflections on this Year’s And leaving so many steaming piles of shit The Koestler Awards are also open to people at the heart of our artistic programme. That half the broad had thawed by January detained in immigration removal centres, where Koestler Awards On he galloped past Vyshny Volochyok, art is usually run as a leisure activity. Southbank Centre passionately believes the arts Petrozavodsk, Kostomuksha and would have the power to transform lives. We also believe Koestler exhibition visitors can’t see a complete body Occasionally, against his will, stop and that the arts must be available to all of us – and of each artist’s work, follow its evolution, or read Perform his silly circus dance Artwork Sales this lies at the heart of all we do. The Festival a biographical statement. This presents challenges Onward he went team develops and commissions collaborative to interpreting the artwork in terms of traditional art Up to the Kola peninsula and found a cave Where he sat and ate and partook of that The Koestler Trust sells artworks when both participatory projects designed to involve the widest criticism, but also a unique opportunity to reflect on its Act that all fortunate beasts partake of − the artist and establishment give permission. Sales possible audiences and communities in our activities. possible meanings, importance and role unencumbered Hibernation help to motivate entrants to positive achievement, This includes a diverse programme of free events, by the usual restraints. We asked five people who’ve showing them that their skills can have real value. workshops, music, performances and art installations been involved with the work of the Koestler Trust There he slept until early spring wolves The profits from original artwork sales are divided in the foyers and public spaces across the site, to visit the Koestler Arts Centre, just outside HM Crept upon him and tore his gorgeous between the artist (50%), Victim Support (25%) an important element of which specifically seeks Prison Wormwood Scrubs in West London, and reflect Muscled flesh – devoured a greater constellation and the Koestler Trust (25%). Artworks that are for to give profile to hidden and underrepresented on some of the work entered to this year’s Koestler sale have prices listed, red dots denote sold artworks. communities. Awards. Many of the works discussed in the texts To purchase an exhibition piece please call the are displayed in RE:FORM. Koestler Trust on 020 8740 0333. Hundreds more The Koestler exhibition runs alongside our ongoing Arts in Criminal Justice artworks from this year’s Koestler Awards, as well festival programme and its themes are examined as Koestler Trust merchandise, are for sale and ready within London Literature Festival (28 Sept – 12 Oct), 6 Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane and Other Secure Settings to take away at the Koestler Pop-up Art Shop – WHY? What’s Happening for the Young (22 – 25 Oct) in Conversation with Fiona Curran, see back page for details. and Being A Man (27 – 29 Nov). Koestler Trust Director of Arts Offenders can participate in the arts in a number of ways: on their own initiative; in prison art Donors to the Koestler Trust, including those who Southbank Centre occupies a 21-acre site on 10 Art, Value and Display by editor departments; in art therapy, as part of mental sponsor Koestler Awards, are offered the chance the South Bank of the Thames and includes Royal of Afterall Books Caroline Woodley health treatment; or in projects run by arts to view a wider range of works at the Koestler Arts Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, organisations in prisons and in the community. Centre each July. the Hayward Gallery, and The Poetry Library. 13 My Journey through This Year’s There is growing evidence of the impact of the With our wide-ranging year-round cross arts Koestler Entries by Koestler arts on offenders’ lives.
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