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You’re warmly invited to join us at an art exhibition taking place at on Thursday 23rd of October 2025 at 18.00 until 21.00.

The exhibition, titled “ will showcase visual artworks, poetry, and music created by men serving long sentences, who are incarcerated at a maximum-security prison in England. The exhibition is part of Resonate Festival and its theme considers what it means to ‘do time’ and to move through major stages of life - youth, adulthood, and old age- while in custody. It also explores how incarceration impacts one’s sense of self, and their perception of time, space, belonging and justice. The exhibiting artists used a creative range of restricted materials and worked closely with the team of arts education staff at the prison and us, a group of ÌÇÐÄTV academics from Sociology and Law who have been teaching at the prison since 2024. Their artworks offer a politically- attuned critique of questions of justice and injustice; freedom, responsibility and hope; and questions of pain, survival, and resistance.  

The event is open to all. To book your place please register here:  (Tickets are free and include a drink at ÌÇÐÄTV Arts Centre).

This exhibition is funded by the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences. It's organised by the Violence and Social Justice research cluster at the Department of Sociology and stems from ongoing outreach and teaching activities we have been engaging in at the prison (these activities have been generosity supported by the Centre for Critical Legal Studies (Law) and Sociology).

For more information or questions about this exhibition, please reach out to: A.Chamberlen@warwick.ac.uk; Emily.Gray@warwick.ac.uk ; Silvia.Gomes@warwick.ac.uk or ruth.bernatek@warwick.ac.uk .