Category: Arts in Justice

Lady Unchained is the performance name for Brenda Birungi, a black woman from South East London. In 2008 at age 21, Brenda and her sister were in a nightclub. They were having fun when...

Lets talk about ACES. ACES means adverse childhood experiences. This list includes but is not limited to physical, emotional or sexual abuse, parental mental illness, grief, substance dependance, neglect, parental incarceration, parental separation, divorce...

Speaking about ACES (adverse childhood experiences) became easier to understand when Jess explained this metaphor to me. What glasses do you have on? What about if you put on these lenses? As a society,...

In class, myself and Maria J Monteiro were put into a break out room. We were asked to answer a question. Below I have tried to capture the brief yet rich conversation we had....

What matters to you, for me, is a question of humanity. In this video with Jason Leitch, the national clinical director of the Scottish government, he speaks about improving the lives of those in...

  Here are a list of resources that I am relating to in this verbal unloading. South Africa https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/sa-prisons-now-focus-on-rehabilitation-2016297 New Zeland https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/08/forms-of-structural-violence-waikeria-highlights-injustice-of-new-zealands-prisons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Corrections_(New_Zealand) https://www.corrections.govt.nz/working_with_offenders/prison_sentences/being_in_prison

Ross Kemp this week has boiled my blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Kemp The above link is reference to who Ross Kemp is. Below is a photograph of him. This documentary opened up conversations with my dad. We...

This week, in class we watched and discussed the BBC documentary, Stacey Dooley in the USA, girls behind bars. This documentary was shown on the BBC. It is an “insight” into an American female...

Today I watched ‘El Chacal De Nahueltoro’. This is a black and white film set in Chilie based on the prison system. A man commits a murder of a family and then is sent...

As an artist, I have always found it difficult to sustain an embodied daily practice. I think this is because I found it difficult to unpick the why of it all. However for this...