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CJC Member to exhibit prison artwork in major British Library show.

Travelling from a closed women's prison to the world's largest library, the artwork will be exhibited as part of Unearthed, a major new show at the British Library 2 May-10 August 2025. The image was made at HMP Send in Surrey during a collaborative project Claridge devised linking the prison and RHS Wisely. Using RHS archive material from a WW1 internment camp as a starting point, Claridge and women incarcerated at HMP Send created a series of artworks called Plants, Prisons and Potential. The artwork's inclusion in Unearthed valuably represents issues of social exclusion in a wider conversation about gardening's promise of nurturing and empowerment.

An exhibition by 40 people in UK and US prisons is touring public libraries in England, starting with Redditch Library 1-30 April, then Stafford Library until 2 June. Throughout the summer, We Roar will also be at the National Justice Museum, before continuing on tour into April 2026 (see the full venue list here). The tour extends the success of last year's activity, when We Roar became the first ever creative exhibition to tour nine UK prisons and also toured to Ann Arbor, the largest juried art fair in the USA, with key partners Novus and PCAP. Every library and museum on the tour is hosting free engagement events, so please join any you can.

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CJC Member Faye Claridge
Wed 26 Mar 2025, 12:33 | Tags: Criminal Justice Centre