postcard #48. convict-anthropologist

Thomas Bock exhibition, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, March 2018 Running concurrently with Edmund Clark’s In Place of Hate exhibition at the … More

postcard #47. pressed flowers

In Place of Hate – Edmund Clark Ikon gallery, Birmingham, March 2018 A series of short films of a fish … More

postcard #37. All too human

We are all human. Koestler Awards Spirit Level, Southbank, October 2016 This was the fourth year running I had visited … More

postcard #36. Wilde

Inside: Artists and Writers inside Reading Prison HMP Reading, October 2016 There is something eerily discomforting about a prison which … More

postcard #30.vinegar

Reading Charles Dickens’ Uncommercial Traveller, July 2016 My summer reading this year included Charles Dickens’ The Uncommercial Traveller (published in … More

Postcard #35. Riots

High Pavement Police Station, Nottingham, September 2016   Yesterday I took a free tour of Nottingham’s Old County Police Station as … More

postcard #34. Pop-Up

Koestler Trust Pop-Up Art Sale Wormwood Scrubs, London, UK July 2016 Last Saturday, I visited the Koestler Trust Pop-Up art … More

postcard #22. Reformed

RE:FORM Exhibition, Koestler Trust Offender Arts Awards Southbank Centre, London, November 2015 This was the 8th Annual awards exhibition put … More

postcard #31. Debt

York Castle Museum, York, UK June 2016 Having now sought out prison museums, exhibitions, attractions and repurposed prison architecture in … More

postcard #8. POW

Wollaton Hall, Nottingham October 2014 Having visited Wollaton again today, I thought it was time I reposted this blogette on their … More

postcard #13. CCTV

The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham March 2015 ‘But, in this scene of terror, the role of the people was an … More

postcard #6. Clink

The Clink Prison Museum, London, July 2014 The Clink prison (named after the sounds of clinking chains) was open between … More