11 Feb – 7 Mar 2020
Flowers Gallery celebrates its 50-year anniversary on 10 February 2020, marking the event with a London exhibition of contemporary work by gallery artists produced especially for the occasion.
The exhibition includes 50 works by 50 gallery artists, representing the diverse breadth of the programme developed over the past five decades and emphasising the ongoing focus on exhibiting contemporary works of art.
Produced in a range of media, each work will measure 50 x 50 cm.
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Thursday 5 March 2020, 3 -5pm
In this talk Clark will explore ideas of visibility, representation, trauma and self-image in developing strategies of visualisation in art practice about criminal justice in English prisons, with particular reference to his work in HMP Grendon and HMP Kingston, and the subsequent exhibitions, catalogues and monographs.
Established in 1962, HMP Grendon is the only prison in Europe to operate wholly as a therapeutic community. Inmates there must have accepted responsibility for their offence, exercising a degree of control over the day-to-day running of their lives, making a commitment to intensive group therapy, democratic decision-making, and holding accountability to each other.
The talk will reflect on how prisoners and criminality are ‘seen’ in contemporary society and media discourse and strategies for visualising experiences of incarceration that question these forms of representation.
For more information, please visit the University of Oxford Faculty of Law website.