Recent exhibitions
The Koestler Trust shares the artwork generated by the Koestler Awards with audiences across the UK. We have held exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff, Birmingham, Colchester, Manchester and Gateshead and taken Koestler writing to the Bridlington Festival.
Our UK Exhibitions take place annually at the Southbank Centre in London and have included Inside curated by Antony Gormley (2017), We Are All Human curated by Benjamin Zephaniah (2016), and Catching Dreams curated by past Koestler Awards entrants (2014).
We seek to represent our entrants and their families in everything we do. We often empower entrants and other groups to take charge of presenting the entries to the public through exhibitions. Our recent exhibition at Firstsite in Colchester, Chip Night, was curated by local young people. Our 2017 exhibition Beyond the Door at mac Birmingham was curated by Walsall Youth Justice Service. Serving prisoners, Youth Offending Teams (YOTs), victims of crime, secure children’s home residents and mentoring programme participants have all taken the lead on presenting the work and bringing their own unique perspectives to our public programmes.
We are currently planning programmes with Southbank Centre in London, Turner Contemporary in Margate, House of St Barnabas in London, Snape Maltings in Suffolk, and Millennium Gallery in Sheffield.
If you are a festival, arts venue or arts organisation and would like to discuss a partnership please email Fiona Curran, Director of Arts fcurran@koestlertrust.org.uk.