Prison art and the Koestler Trust

They are the UK’s best-known prison arts charity.  They award, exhibit and sell artworks by offenders, detainees and high security patients.

The Koestler Trust’s aims are:

• to help offenders lead more positive lives by motivating them to participate in the creative arts;
• to demonstrate the power of arts activity in the criminal justice system.

The Koestler Awards attract around 5,000 entries a year from inmates of prisons, young offender institutions, secure hospitals and immigration removal centres across the UK, as well as offenders supervised by probation and youth offending services.

Koestler Trust website