Lab’s director integrates Talibé artwork into own painting
31st March 2022
You can see clues as to how & where Sara's latest paintings started: with the artwork of talibé children...
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Drawing & Painting Bring Joy to Talibé Children
25th November 2021
A moment to leave the trauma of existence behind and to share the thrill of creative expression & play...
A celebration of contemporary African art
27th July 2021
‘Things are changing and it’s optimistic’. Three Black artists, African and African American, explore common lineage and traditions....
Arts Lab’s spring sum-up
1st June 2021
Folklore collages to prisoner letter exchanges; coin designs to Boris’s wallpaper, the list goes on....
Crude, obscene & extraordinary: Dubuffet’s war against good taste
3rd May 2021
The inventor of ‘art brut’ who rebelled against his parents, his teachers & art itself....
‘Sharing the Light’ at HMP Dartmoor – magazine article
1st March 2021
Abstract art collaboration helps to build prisoners’ sense of purpose & hope during Covid...
Whitechapel exhibition shows painting can do things other media can’t
20th February 2020
'Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium' reveals the 'particularities' of painting, says Searle....
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. ...
Teenagers paint for climate change
16th December 2019
Climate change issues, non-judgementalism, freedom and creativity come out strong....
Arts Lab graduate award highlights need for experimentation
28th June 2019
'I want to help create a wider discussion around the benefits and the need for experimentation in painting'...