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....
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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'...
Sean Scully – conviction and paint
13th April 2019
Superb new Sean Scully film - a man with conviction. A man who paints....
What we’re all about Film
15th March 2019
Check out our new film edited by Promotion Videos - a compilation of young Arts Lab film maker shorts....
Daffs at HMP Dartmoor
9th March 2019
'There is no doubt that the sessions improved the lives of those involved.'...