Arts by Offenders: Crime and Creativity.

Exhibition 'Art by offenders' at Southbank Centre.
Wednesday 29 September 2010 - Sunday 14 November 2010

Koestler Trust is the UK's best-known prison arts charity. They have been awarding, exhibiting and selling artworks by offenders, detainees and secure patients for 49 years. Their annual exhibition 'Art by offenders' offers a opportunity to think whether the art can lead to a better future both for offenders and for their victims.

The most remarkable thing is that this year's exhibition is the first to be curated by a group of victims whose lives have been changed by serious offences against them. They created contextual texts and shared their experience of working on this project.


I believe these are really brilliant and powerful idea to help both offenders and victims to lead them to more positive lives through participating arts. In addition, this event would be a great opportunity to increase public awareness and understanding of crime and how arts can work for them.

From this exhibition, I have come to think further:
-how can city landscape design work to prevent problems of crime
-how can landscape architecture and art work together to produce good results