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2021 Koestler Awards Guidance Unlock the talent inside
The Koestler Awards for arts in criminal justice
started in 1962. Each year over 3,500 people
in custody and in the community share their
creative work by taking part. The Koestler
Awards provide feedback and encouragement
to entrants of all abilities in visual art, design,
writing and music.
Contents
Entering the Koestler Awards 02
What you can enter: artforms 05
Terms & conditions of entry 13
5 top things to remember 21
Thank-you, Stirling Council Justice Service, Highly Commended Award for Portrait
Making many creative art pieces has helped me in my emotional moments,
it has also helped me in coming to terms with my prison sentence.
Outdoor UK exhibition, Southbank Centre, London 2020 Koestler Awards Entrant
Guidance booklet 1
Entering the Recognition for your work
We give over 2,000 Koestler Awards
We give you feedback
Entrants receive feedback on their
Koestler Awards
each year. Every entrant gets a work from the judges or the
certificate and many winners receive Koestler Arts team, who give their
a cash prize. The total prize money is responses to the work and ideas on
over £30,000. how to develop it.
Unlock feedback on your creative work, chances
to win cash awards and opportunities for Platinum £100 + certificate Fast feedback for those under 18
mentoring, exhibition, publication and sales. Gold £60 + certificate All entrants under 18 can receive
Silver £40 + certificate their certificate and feedback within
Bronze £20 + certificate 4 weeks of entry and enter at any point
Special Awards £25 + certificate of the year. The parcel containing the
Highly Commended certificate entry must be marked ‘Under 18s Fast
Commended certificate Feedback Programme’ to be eligible.
Participation certificate Please note, there is a new Under 18s
Entry Form.
Prestigious judges
Entries are judged by over 100 experts Sales
from different fields. 2020 judges We can try and sell your visual arts
included Bob and Roberta Smith, and crafts on your behalf. We do this
George the Poet, Hot Chip, Jeremy online, in our building and at our
Deller and Sarah Lucas! exhibitions.
Extra encouragement for new
entrants
Let us know if this is the first time
you have taken part in the Koestler
Awards on the entry form and you
will be considered for Awards specially
reserved for new entrants.
UK exhibition, Southbank Centre, London
2 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 3
What you can
UK exhibition, Southbank Centre,
London
The 2021 UK exhibition will be back in
its usual gallery in the autumn at the
Southbank Centre in London. Artist enter: artforms
Camille Walala will make the selection
from all the entries to the 2021 Koestler
Awards. Camille is a French-born artist
living and working in East London.
Over the last decade, she has become
renowned for her large-scale murals
and installations in public spaces Camille Walala photographed by Charles Emerson
around the world. Characterised by
bold patterns and vibrant colour, her Marketing
mission is to spread joy and positivity. We may reproduce your work online,
As well as work exhibited on the on our merchandise or in publications.
gallery walls, the national exhibition We may send reproductions of
features events, performances and your work to the media and other
tours. organisations to publicise our work
Let’s Celebrate International Women’s Day, HMP Bronzefield, Weavers’ Company Platinum Award for Fashion
and exhibitions, which is a great
Exhibitions and events across the UK chance to get your work seen by
We also showcase local artwork in a wider audience.
different areas of the UK each year.
This gives work in those areas an Membership scheme
extra chance to be seen. Covid-19 has The Associates Programme is a
disrupted museum and art gallery membership scheme for our entrants.
schedules, so we will confirm later in Entrants opting into the scheme
the year if we can proceed with will benefit from greater contact
hoped-for shows in Scotland and with Koestler Arts through a regular
Northern Ireland. Koestler newsletter. Sign up to the
Associates Programme by ticking the
Displays of work throughout the year box on the entry form.
Some work is selected to be shown
in displays in a wide range of public Mentoring
spaces including offices, restaurants We run an arts mentoring scheme for
and prison visit halls. entrants to the Koestler Awards who
want to develop their work further.
Eligible entrants will receive further
information about this bespoke
programme after entering.
4 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 5
Multi-artform Writing
1. Themed Category: 2. Arts Project camera 3. Flash Fiction 9. Poetry Collection 13. Screenplay
Together A project with » the aims of the project and Short Story 10 or more poems Script with directions
Have a go at producing a components that cover » the artforms involved A short story, flash fiction arranged in order with for TV or film.
poem, drawing, painting, several Koestler Awards » a documentation of or part of a novel. Entries an overall title – in book
song or any other artforms, created the artistic outcomes must be no more than or pamphlet form, or 14. Song Writing
Koestler artform using to engage people as (photos, DVD, audio, 5 sides of A4 paper. as if being submitted Lyrics for a song – not
the word ‘Together’ as a artists, participants and book, etc.) for publication. Short including the musical
theme. Written work and audience. Your entry » the organisation/ 4. Longer Fiction collections featuring score or any recorded
DVDs/CDs submitted should include: individual(s) that co- and Novel the strongest poems are element. Please state the
into this category will ordinated the project A longer story, novel or encouraged. genre of the music piece
not be returned to you » an overview of who the part of a novel. Entries on the entry.
and will be disposed of participants/artists/ must be 6 sides of A4 10. Anthology
securely following the audience were and the paper or more. A volume of mixed lease retain copies
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Awards. benefits of, or response writing, such as a of all written work, as
to, the project (include 5. Non-Fiction, mixture of poems and submitted entries will
quotes or figures) Blog, Essay, Article and fiction or essays. Short not be returned. We
Review anthologies featuring will dispose of your
One piece of factual the strongest pieces of work securely.
writing as if written writing are encouraged.
for a magazine, paper, Number the pages and
biography, blog or non- 11. Stage Play – in put the title on every
fiction book. partnership with page.
Synergy Theatre Project
6. Life Story Script with stage If you write about real
Autobiographical prose directions – a short events, do not identify
of any length. play, full-length play or any individuals.
part of one. Additional
7. Braille guidelines are available
Braille text, embossed on request and on the
illustrations and Koestler Arts website.
diagrams.
12. Radio Play
8. Poem Script with studio
Enter one poem as directions – a full-length
one entry. drama or part of one.
Reflection, Colnbrook IRC, Gold Award for Printmaking
6 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 7
Performance and audio Film and animation
15. Spoken Word 19. Choral Music 23. Hip Hop, Rap 25. Film 26. Animation
lease retain copies of
P
Audio recording of a A recording of a and Grime Dramatic or Animated film
all film and animation
performance or reading performance of choral A recording of a musician documentary film on DVD.
entries, as submitted
of an original work. music by a group of or group performing on DVD.
entries will not be
singers. Please state on their own material.
returned. We will
16. Performance the disc or packaging
dispose of your work
DVD, video or audio whether the music and 24. Computer
securely.
recording of a lyrics are original or Generated Music
performance. This existing. A recording of original
rite the length of the
W
includes theatre, dance music generated
film or animation on
and performance 20. Singer- entirely, or mostly, using
the disc or packaging.
art, as well as audio Songwriter – Original computers.
performances of existing A recording of a
Make clear which
scripts, poems or stories. performance by a Please retain copies
elements of the
E.g. this could be a musician or group, that of all performance
production were
reading of a story on writes, composes and and audio entries, as
carried out by
CD (ideal for Storybook sings their own material submitted entries will
entrants and which
Dads) or a DVD of a including lyrics and not be returned. We
by professionals.
dance routine. Audio melodies. will dispose of your
recordings of original work securely.
e will not publicly
W
texts should be entered 21. Cover Version
screen any film
in Spoken Word. A recording of an Write the length of
entry without first
individual or group the recording on the
consulting the
17. Radio Production performing an existing disc or packaging.
establishment that
Audio recording of an song. Your own
submitted it.
original broadcast radio interpretation of the ake clear which
M
production or an edited song is encouraged. elements of the
I f you are entering
compilation, e.g. spot/ production were
pieces in different
advert, documentary or 22. Instrumental carried out by
artforms, make sure
interview. Up to 30 mins. A recording of a musician entrants and which
that they are on
or group performing by professionals.
different DVDs.
18. Music Composition their own or existing
Audio entry on display at Southbank Centre
A written score (not music with no lyrics. If you are entering
a recording) with or Please state on the disc pieces in different
without lyrics. If lyrics or packaging whether artforms, make sure
are included, say whether the music is original or that they are on
or not they are original. existing. different CDs, DVDs etc.
8 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 9
Fine art
27. Painting 34. Digital Art 40. Textile Art
A painting mainly in oil, A digital print (with little Weaving, macramé,
acrylic or tempera. or no text) produced or machine embroidery
formatted by computer. and collage. Flat or raised
28. Watercolour and surface, in 2D or 3D.
Gouache 35. Graphic Novel Includes soft furnishings
A full length graphic such as cushions, table
29. Drawing novel or up to 3 short linen, bed linen, bath
Pencil, charcoal, felt pen comics, comic strips or linen, rugs, etc.
or ink. one-off cartoons, with
or without text.
30. Pastel
If possible, use fixative 36. Mural and Wall
tto prevent smudging. Hanging camera ll artwork should be
A
original. The judges
31. Portrait 37. Printmaking will not assess copies I n artforms marked
All portraits, in 2D Block prints, etchings, of other people’s camera you may enter by
visual artforms should lino prints, mono artwork highly and we sending photographs
be entered into this prints, screen prints, can’t sell direct copies with notes. Show the
category. handprinted wallpaper or artworks made entry from all sides
etc. from kits. in good light, give
32. Mixed Media its dimensions, and
2D work including 38. Photography e do accept drawings
W explain fully how
collages, silk painting or An original photograph or paintings based it was made. If we
use of unusual materials. as an individual print, on photographs, but, choose the entry for
or up to 5 in a portfolio again, you will score exhibition, we may ask
33. Sculpture camera or book (counted as one higher with our judges you to send the actual
Sculptures may be made entry). Any size or shape, if you develop your item.
with any materials but colour or black-and- own style rather than
we recommend items white. Slides and discs copying exactly. I f you use degradable Mannequin, HMP & YOI Forest Bank, First-Time Entrant Award for Drawing
made in clay are entered are not accepted. materials, please enter
into the Ceramics I f your entry is very your work in a sealed
category. 39. Ceramics camera large, heavy, valuable container so it does
A vase, plate, bowl or or fragile, please ring not attract vermin or
sculpture made from us: we may need it insects. This work may
clay, air-dried or fired. to be delivered and degrade while in our
collected. possession.
10 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 11
Craft and design Terms & conditions
41. Handmade Book
A handmade original or
46. Craft camera
Including toys, jewellery,
51. Hairstyling camera
Includes cutting, dying,
of entry
limited-edition artist’s mosaics and paper styling and braiding.
book, containing visual folding.
artwork and/or text. The 52. Beauty camera
judges will be looking for 47. Woodcraft camera Including make-up,
creativity and artistry in Emphasis on skills theatre make-up and
the binding and content. in joinery, veneering, nail art.
marquetry, turning,
42. Calligraphy carving and fine ll artwork should be
A
Hand-lettering of your decoration. Metal and original. The judges
own or others’ words other materials may will not assess copies
in any language. May be added. of other people’s
include street art–style artwork highly and we
lettering, decoration and 48. Furniture camera can’t sell direct copies
pictorial elements. Only photographs may or artworks made
be submitted. Do not from kits.
43. Handmade send the original item.
Greetings Card Any material may I n artforms marked
be used. camera you may enter by
44. Graphic Design sending photographs
A printed item with 49. Needlecraft with notes. Show the
images and text which Knitting, crochet, entry from all sides
may be produced or needlepoint and any in good light, give
formatted by computer, other items made by its dimensions, and
e.g. a poster, leaflet, hand using needles explain fully how
booklet, sign, logo or up or hooks. Include it was made. If we
to 3 issues of a magazine, explanatory notes, choose the entry for
judged for visual quality. preparatory sketches and exhibition, we may
Also includes web any pattern used. ask you to send the
design which should be actual item.
submitted on CD or DVD 50. Fashion
with a printout on paper. Dressmaking and If your entry is very
tailoring. Include large, heavy, valuable
45. Matchstick Model camera explanatory notes, or fragile, please ring
May be coloured and preparatory sketches us: we may need it
include other supporting and any pattern used. to be delivered and
materials. collected. Bird Cage - Imprisoned!, HMP Exeter, Paper Craft Gold Award for Craft
12 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 13
Who can enter? What can I enter? How do I enter? Will my name be made
public?
» A nyone in custody in a UK prison, » Y ou can enter original work in any of » Y ou can submit up to 5 entries into
young offender institution, secure the artforms listed in this Guidance, the Koestler Awards. Fill in 1 entry » Y ou and the member of staff signing
training centre, secure children’s up to a maximum of 5 in total. form for each entry. You are welcome your form can choose for you to use
home, immigration removal » Generally entries must have been to photocopy the form. first name only or you can remain
centre, or high or medium security created in the last 12 months. » Ask an authorised member of staff anonymous. We will make your first
psychiatric hospital or unit However, if you couldn’t enter your to sign each form and give their name public in exhibition only if
(including the Channel Islands and artwork into the 2020 Awards due to contact details. We cannot accept you are aged 18 or over and we have
Isle of Man). Covid-19 lockdowns, you may enter it your entry if it is not approved permission on the entry form, both
» Any current client of the National into the 2021 Awards – even if it was and signed-off by an authorised from you and an authorised member
Probation Service or a Community made more than 12 months ago. member of staff. The staff member of staff.
Rehabilitation Company, a Youth » Do not enter artworks copied directly should consistently work in your » Please think carefully about having
Offending Service, the Scottish from other artworks. establishment, they should not your first name shown, especially if
Criminal Justice Social Work Service » Do not enter work that includes your be temporary project worker, it may identify you as an offender to
or their equivalents elsewhere in name in the artwork or work made for example. In the community, relatives, employers or the press. We
the UK. through purchased kits. an authorised member of staff cannot accept responsibility for any
» Any UK citizen currently in a prison should be a probation officer or an repercussions.
overseas (must submit via Prisoners equivalent professional case worker. » You and the authorised member
Abroad). » In artforms marked camera you may enter of staff who signs your entry
» You may enter as an individual by sending photographs. form should consider if there are
or as a group. » You can send items up to 2kg free sensitivities around your first
using ‘Freepost KOESTLER ARTS’. name being published next to your
» Pack your work carefully so that artwork, particularly concerning
it reaches us safely. The maximum victims of a crime or heightened
weight limit is 15kg per parcel. Many media profile.
establishments send a van of entries » Don’t sign your artwork with your
each year - ask if this happens at full name, or put it on the back of
your establishment. your work, or otherwise reference it
in the entry. If you do, we will need to
remove it before exhibition or sale, or
may not be able to display your work.
Dene, The Black Dog
Priory Hospital Burgess Hill,
Highly Commended Award
for Sculpture
14 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 15
Selling visual artwork How will I get any money How will my entry be
from prizes or sales? returned?
» K oestler sales are for visual arts and » I f your work is for sale tell us the
crafts only. minimum amount you’d like to » W e issue prize money in October » W e pack all artwork carefully for its
» We will sell your work only if we receive. We’ll then make the sales and money from sales in December. return journey.
have permission from you and from price double this. The lowest amount » If you are in a prison or secure » If you are in a secure setting, we will
your establishment. you can receive is £10 (sales price £20) setting, we send the money in a return your work there, usually to
» If your work does not sell we will and the highest amount is £250 (sales cheque to your establishment. The the Education Department.
return it to you, unless you have price £500). If you indicate that you’d Finance staff will credit it to your » If you are in the community, we
donated it to Koestler Arts. like to receive more than £250 we’ll be private cash. will return your work by post if you
» We purchase a small amount of unable to sell it, and it will be marked » If you are not in custody we can provide your home address (UK only).
works annually for our collection, ‘not for sale’. issue a cheque in your name, or you » You or your establishment can really
with a view to exhibiting them at » If your work can be sold but you do can collect cash from the Koestler help us keep costs down by coming
future displays and events. not indicate a minimum price we will Arts Centre if you let us know to collect your work. Please let us
» If your work sells you get 50% of the price it for you. beforehand. know beforehand so we can have
sales price. At the same time it raises » You can also choose to donate your » Scotland only: Artists in Scottish it ready.
money for Koestler Arts (25%) and artwork to Koestler Arts. This means prisons are aware that they cannot » Apart from a few exceptions,
Victim Support (25%). it will not be returned to you and if directly benefit from the sale of writing, performance, audio, film
sold the money raised will help us to their artwork. If an artist does and animation entries will not be
continue our work. agree that their work can be sold, returned – please only send copies.
the monies raised will be sent to
We will not sell lower than the price the establishment to be placed in
you indicate, but we may try and sell the ‘common good fund’ or similar.
your work for more! But, if you are An artist can of course choose not
keen to sell, bear in mind, that most to sell, or to donate their work to
online and Pop-Up Shop purchasers Koestler Arts. This does not affect
are looking to spend less than £100. any potential prize money, which
the artist will receive.
Koestler Pop-Up Art Shop at Southbank Centre Clean View, HMP Peterborough, Themed Category: Window
16 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 17What other conditions are there?
By entering the Koestler Awards, you » Th
e Koestler Awards decisions
agree to all the Terms & Conditions of are final – we will not enter into
Entry set out in this Guidance. Also: any correspondence about these
decisions. Entrants must not
» Information included on the entry attempt to correspond with
form can be held on the Koestler Arts Koestler Awards judges.
secure database. If you would like » Visual artwork left unclaimed or
a copy of the Koestler Arts Privacy donated for more than 1 year from
Policy or Safeguarding Policy, you the end of March 2022 may be
can view them on our website or destroyed, sold or donated.
write to us. » One of our aims at Koestler Arts
» All artworks are handled by our team is to demonstrate that the arts
with the utmost care. In the unlikely are beneficial to offenders, secure
event of damage or loss, for example patients and detainees. We need
in transit to us, Koestler Arts will do evidence to show to funders and
what it can to put things right. But policy makers. We would be very
the charity and its agents accept no grateful if you agreed to help with
liability for loss or damage to entries. this by completing the Monitoring
» Artists always retain copyright of for Diversity section on the entry
their work. By entering the Koestler form. Any research carried out will
Awards you agree that we can only use anonymised data.
exhibit, publish, and reproduce your
entry in reasonable ways in print,
merchandise, online, film, audio
etc. We can allow press and other
partners to do so in reasonable ways,
to promote our work.
Waving to the World, St Mary’s Hospital, Commended Award for Portrait
Hope, HMP & YOI Low Newton, Bowman Smart Bronze Award for Textile Art
18 Koestler Awards 2021 Guidance booklet 19Koestler Arts timeline
5 top things
22 April Closing date for all 2021 entries to reach Koestler Arts
Centre to remember
June to July Judging of entries
End August Awards results published on our website 1. You can enter up to five original works
September to UK exhibition at Southbank Centre
2. Your entries should not contain your name
November
End October Certificates and prizes sent out 3. Include a completed entry form with every entry
End December Sales money sent out
January 2022 2022 entry forms published
4. Your entry form must be signed by an authorised
End of March 2022 All visual entries returned. member of staff
5. Tell us if you move address
Offender
Littlehampton Probation,
Calligraphy
20 Koestler Awards 2021Like a balloon, full to
bursting point. I’ve been
writing all my life, since
I was a kid. I wasn’t
always confident with
it, and kept it hidden
for years and years.
Since I have learned
to trust myself and
others and let people
hear what I have to say,
I’ve felt very balanced
inside.
2020 Koestler Awards
Entrant
Koestler Arts Going Mad
Sandwell Youth Offending Service,
168A Du Cane Road Portrait
London, W12 0TX
Cover: Meltdown
HMP Long Lartin, Patrick Holmes
Freepost KOESTLER ARTS
Platinum Award for Painting
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