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2008 Exhibition

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Spirit Level, Royal Festival Hall
27 September - 8 November 2008

www.southbankcentre.org.uk

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Click here for a full List of Exhibits.

Our 2008 exhibition marked the start of a 3-year partnership with Southbank Centre, one of the world's most prestigious arts venues, overlooking the Thames in central London. We look forward to being there again in autumn 2009 and 2010.

The show was curated by young offenders from the local borough of Lambeth. Click here for more details of this ground-breaking young curators project.

Nearly 10,000 people visited the exhibition. Click here for a selection of the visitors' comments.

For the first time in the 47-year history of the Koestler Exhibition, we invited visitors to vote for their favourite work, and gave additional Koestler Awards to the winners, which you can see on the right of this page.

We held a series of events at the exhibition, including a reading of Koestler Award-winning creative writing, and a very well-attended seminar for prison art tutors.  We are repeating and expanding these events in 2009.

 Christmas Wish List (toilet roll, HMP Wormwood Scrubs) received the most votes, but we were unable to trace the artist so have not given the prize.<br>
"Christmas Wish List"
(toilet roll, HMP Wormwood Scrubs)
received the most votes, but we were unable to trace the artist so have not given the prize.

Seasoned Turkey (condiment sachets on card, State Hospital, Glasgow)
"Seasoned Turkey" (condiment sachets on card, State Hospital, Glasgow)
"First Prize" £100

Pandora�s Sailing Ship (matchstick model, HMP Wakefield) � 21nd Prize
"Pandora's Sailing Ship"
(matchstick model, HMP Wakefield)
"2nd Prize" £60



HMP (portrait of The Queen, HMP Erlestoke)
"HMP" (portrait of The Queen, HMP Erlestoke)
"32nd Prize" £40