Artists including Ai Weiwei and Cornelia Parker have collaborated with sewers in British prisons for a new exhibition
Piranesi is considered one of the most accomplished printmakers of the 18th century. His Views of Rome brought Rome to the rest of Europe and his Imaginary Prisons influenced future movements.
Clarissa Harlowe in the Prison Room of the Sheriff's Office Charles Landseer (1799–1879) Tate
Nelson Mandela lived one of the most remarkable lives of the twentieth century. Growing up in an era of oppression and racial segregation in South Africa, he devoted his life to fighting for an equal and democratic society and championed social justice. Imprisoned for almost three decades, he became the world’s most famous political prisoner. […]
Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated in the annexed Polish land during World War II. Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners who first arrived in May 1940. Plans for the total eradication of the Jewish population of Europe, eleven…
"Here we pay attention to you like human beings."
Archival UV resistant print of currency collage based on Piranesi’s imaginary prison series. Ideal size 23”x 30”