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OPEN CALL
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Event
Artist Prison Residencies Remote/Online Programme
2 Apr 2022 – 30 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Timezone: Europe/London
Cost of entry
Free to apply. Residency fee details can be found on the Prison Residency website Call Out 2022 page.
- Language: English
- Join the event
OPEN CALL for Artists, Writers and Researchers. Prison Residencies is pleased to announce its online residency programme. Examining Victorian women’s prison system within the UK, this residency will give you insight into the history of the women who served time at Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset.
About
This residency is open to all artists, writers, researchers, or anyone who has a keen interest in Victorian women’s prison history. This residency is self-directed with prompts as guides from the organisers. You will be encouraged to make a body of work, writing, research over the course of this residency.
Guest speakers will attend the weekly zoom meetings sharing their practice, experiences, and knowledge. Dave Cable, Shepton Mallet Prison Historian and genealogist, South West archives, Taunton, Somerset, Discussing Shepton Mallet archives, this is to give insight into how an archive is stored, used, and accessed by the public. Erika Flowers, artist and activist for Holloway prison gained a Women’s house for support of women. Gary Mansfield, Artist, curator, and podcast host of Ministry of Arts. Gary is also Koestler Arts board member. Dr Eleanor March - is an interdisciplinary prisons researcher, working on the ESRC-funded Persistent Prisons project. Maurice Gee, now retired Prison officer of 33 years, Maurice will be speaking about his experience within the prison systems of the modern-day.
Who is this for:
Prison Residencies are aimed at self-motivated artists, writers, and researchers at any stage of their career, for anyone who wants to develop and explore their practice working on an unresearched part of history, Women’s Victorian Prisons. Open to anyone over 18, if you have any access needs this is not a barrier, please include this within your application.
A four-week virtual residency programme running 02/04/2022 – 30/04/2022 led by Amanda Lynch and Luminara Florescu. We will be having weekly zoom meetings every Saturday 3:30pm – 6:60pm including breaks. Within these weekly zoom sessions, you will have two guest speakers each week. These meetings will be recorded for later access.
DEADLINE to apply: 18/03/2022 midnight
How to apply:
Please follow the link to the Open Call on the Prison Residencies website via https://prisonresidencies.wixsite.com/shepton
