Prison culture and heritage: Fremantle Prison Wall paintings and their artists

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

This is an exciting and innovative project which takes historical data and images used in a large-scale AHRC-funded project to co-create a new range of resources which will impact upon a wide range of people. We will produce a documentary which explores how and why two wall-murals were painted inside Fremantle Prison, an exhibition of nineteenth-century photographs of convicts in Hobart which shows how they still retain the power to challenge contemporary conceptions of criminals in the UK and Australia; and a set of online and printed resources which can be used tin campaigns and public-information strategies to increase social justice, and access to justice for marginalized sectors of the population. This interdisciplinary innovative collaboration between criminologists, forensic anthropologists, filmmakers, cultural historians, heritage bodies, and a range of community-stakeholders, will develop resources which can be used to engage a wide range of different non-academic groups, including indigenous and white working-class communities in Western Australia; genealogists and family historians in Tasmania; undergraduates and school-students in both the UK and Australia. This kind of ambitious film-making and digital exhibition project is not without risk but has the potential to create a lasting and significant impact in both the UK and Australia.