Q&A with ‘Winter Experimenter’ Matt O’Halloran
2nd April 2021
Matt O’Halloran tells us about what he made of the opportunity on Arts Lab’s virtual residency....
Thoughts
Forgotten. Not Forgotten
20th November 2020
The need to remember the easily forgotten in these times. Prisoners locked up 23 hours a day give us perspective....
Change
15th August 2020
Everything has shifted so much since the start of the Covid crisis, that we wanted to make work about change....
We need to talk – facing difficult conversations through art
12th June 2020
We use creativity to tackle some of today's key issues and to broach difficult conversations....
Lessons from the locked up in lockdown
15th May 2020
If we think we have it bad in lockdown, think of all the prisoners locked up under Covid-19 regulations up to 23 hours a day, every day for months! Isolation...
Human kindness in crisis foreshadowed in prisoner art show
25th March 2020
Current global crisis highlights what really matters as never before...
Why prisoners love abstract art
19th January 2020
You may like abstract art, hate it or not understand exactly what it is, but the fact that it evades definition is why it's so popular with prisoners. ...
‘How Pleasure Works’ by Paul Bloom
20th October 2018
Excerpt from Paul Bloom's ‘How Pleasure Works’ - Vintage Books 2011 ...
Black Mountain College
4th October 2017
During the first months of Arts Lab’s, Black Mountain College of Fine Arts and Progressive Education (1933-57) cropped up in conversation more than once. Arts Lab’s focus is increasingly moving...