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08 Jan

"...the arts enable prisoners to be seen in a different light" by Hannah Micuta

Warwick postgraduate student Hannah Micuta shares her thoughts and reflections on our recent Prisoner Arts in Context International Symposium.

12 Dec 2024

Please Assess My Essay by Charlie Weinberg

The following poem was composed by Charlie Weinberg as a creative response to the Captive Arts Prisoner Arts in Context International Symposium, which took place at University of Warwick, November 21st, 2024. It was created by stitching together the words of others over the course of a day, and performed as a conclusion to the event.

09 Dec 2024

Event Report // Prison Arts in Context: Global Perspectives

We are delighted to share the Captive Arts event report for Prison Arts in Context: Global Perspectives, by Sally Foreman.

30 Sept 2024

We Roar by Faye Claridge

Artist and PhD researcher Faye Claridge talks about her recent project We Roar, an extraordinary exhibition of artwork and poetry created by 40 men and women incarcerated in 21 UK & US prisons. Throughout 2024 it toured to nine prisons in the UK, with works also dsiplayed at the Ann Arbor Arts Fair in Michigan, USA & at Warwick Arts Centre, UK.

20 Sept 2024

The Sing Sing Players: A Psychoanalytic Reflection by Sally Foreman

This summer I attended a film festival screening of Sing Sing (2024), an atypical prison drama starring Oscar-nominated Colman Domingo and former inmate Clarence Maclin. The film is based on the true story of a drama program – run by nonprofit organisation Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) – at Sing Sing prison, and has created a buzz thanks to rave media reviews and the fact that the majority of the cast were formerly incarcerated.

15 Mar 2021

Artful Punishment: The Curious Symbiosis Between Art and Imprisonment

Anastasia Chamberlen presents some of her ongoing research considering the theoretical and methodological tensions and emancipatory potential of the ‘curious symbiosis’ between imprisonment and art, at the final lecture of the All Souls Seminar of Hilary term 2021.