- Venue
- The Town Hall Galleries
- Starts
- Friday, March 13, 2009
- Ends
- Saturday, April 25, 2009
- Address
- Cornhill Ipswich IP1 1DH
- Location
- East England
This exhibition by Penny Brice and Stella Eldon is the culmination of a residency at a young offenders’ institution (YOI) at Warren Hill Prison in Suffolk. During this the artists delivered a series of visual art workshops, which asked the prisoners to consider aspects of memory: of people, of places, both recent and past, from inside and outside the YOI. The resulting work combines an installation that evokes features of the architecture of the unit with audio and visual media from this closed environment. Each element reflects the emphasis on security and surveillance and careful control of information and identity exercised by the authorities at the unit. Inevitably, the content is conditioned by the severe restrictions on what is allowed out of the prison environment and what stays hidden. In the absence of images that would identify the trainees or even convey meaningful body language the artists become a medium for communication, a transmitter or tool to reconnect these young men to the world of their memories located as it is beyond the perimeter of the YOI, beyond their crimes and the tabloid images of youth crime. A private view will be held on Friday March 13 between 6 and 8pm.
