Gallery 3
Photographs and images from our archives.
2010-Present.
We have an extensive archive of images, films, and music taken from the many, many projects we have delivered since we were founded in 1991. We can't hope to share it all, but we regularly update and change the galleries that we share, so if you are a regular visitor to our site you will always be guaranteed to find something new.
Trafford Summer Arts College, 2010
images by chris charles
The 2010 Summer Arts College in Trafford was one of four Colleges that we ran that year. The College was built around junk drumming, screen printing, music, and visual arts. Visits to cultural venues are central to all of our projects, and here you can see images of the young people visiting the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
!ntense Board Game, 2010
Photos by TiPP
In the half term of October 2010, TiPP worked with young people from Salford subject to ISSP orders (Intensive Surveillance and Supervision Programme). The young people designed and made a board game that takes the players on the potential journey of a character on the ISS programme, whether from custody or the community. The characters make decisions that affect their progress through the game e.g. failing to turn up to an appointment means missing a turn. The participants designed the look and the rules of the game, including the clay characters that represented the playing pieces. The group then went out to take the photographs that made up the playing surface of the game including Police stations, magistrates courts, clubs they might attend, and the cobbled streets that the players follow on their !ntense journey.
The game has its home at Salford YOT where it is used with young people who may become subject to an ISS order to inform them about the different elements of the programme.
Key 103, 2012
Images by Anna White
Key2Radio103 was a partnership between Manchester's leading commercial radio station, Key 103, TiPP and the Mobile Media Partnership (MMP). The project was targeted at young people under the supervision of Greater Manchester's Youth Offending Teams. Participants took part in participatory arts workshops to develop digital, technical, creative writing and performance skills and culminated in the recording of broadcast quality interviews that formed a part of the their Bronze level Arts Award portfolios.
Swinton Young Parents / Planet Art, 2012
images by tipp
Planet Art was a partnership project between Manchester's young person's mental health charity, 42nd Street and the arts organisation, Box of Frogs. We were commissioned to work with two groups of young people: a group of young parents in Swinton and a group of young men in HMP & YOI Hindley. Installation artists and jewellery designer Sarah Jay worked with a group of young women from Swinton to create pendants, mirrors, mood boards and other wearable art. Some of this work was taken to the prison as inspiration for a group of young men to create soundscapes. The young men, aged 15-17 were led through the process of writing haiku poems based on the themes of home, safety and their responses to the title The Wing. These poems were recorded and formed a part of an installation at the opening of 42nd Streets magnificent new base in 2012. In Gallery 1 you can see some of Paul Gent's illustrations of the work undertaken in HMP & YOI HIndley.
Manchester Summer Arts College, 2015
Images by TiPP
In 2015, young people from Manchester took part in a Summer Arts College that focused on visual art and music.
The young people took inspiration from the natural world and popular culture, combining images to make lino and screen prints, and making an animation. They wrote an original soundtrack to accompany the animation, which was presented at Manchester Art Gallery along with their Arts Award portfolios which were displayed as collage artwork.
Taking Time 2019-20
Taking Time was our family focused creative arts project for prisons which ran between 2019 and 2020. These documentary images were drawn by artist Kate Ireland who joined for some of the journey. You can read more about Taking Time and see some of Andrea Joseph’s drawings for the project here.
Various Projects by Andrea Joseph 2014-20
The extraordinarily talented visual artist, Andrea Jospeh, has worked with us on a range of projects, working as a participatory practitioner, documenting workshops and Taking Time Family Visits prison visits and creating unique and beautiful artwork. Here is a sample of her work.
Recoop Training Film, 2021
In 2021 the charity Recoop, which works with older prisoners, approached us to make a film about working with older prisoners. As prisons were still largely in lockdown, we proposed making use of a life-sized cell that had formed the centrepiece of the creative arts charity Rideout’s Go To Jail project. In 2016 we worked with Rideout to bring the project to Bury, in Greater Manchester and knew it would be ideal. As a result, in the last days of May 2021, when lockdown and social distancing requirements required a high level of diligence on our behalf, director Rachel McMurray spent a week with nine actors recording a series of films that now feature prominently in Recoop’s national training programme.
Summer Arts Colleges, 2019
Photos by Rob Evans, Rachel Scott & Simon Ruding
Working with metalwork artist and welder, Fabian Williams and visual artist Helen Newman, young people from Oldham and Stockport designed their own sculptures, inspired by nature and the storylines they had been developing in other arts activities at the Arts Colleges. Inspired by the Knife Angel sculpture, the pieces were to be made out of knives that had been donated by Cheshire and Greater Manchester Constabularies, having been removed from crime scenes and due for destruction.
We took further inspiration from Stormzy’s performance in a Banksy-designed stab vest at Glastonbury, and we asked the police if we could have half a dozen decommissioned stab vests that were repurposed as pieces of art.
The pieces were on display (in cages) at the 2019 Youth Justice Board Convention in Birmingham.
Manchester Summer Arts College, 2021
The Arts College in 2021 saw us back in action, face-to-face with young people. We were lucky enough to be able to base the project in Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre space, and participants had the opportunity to take part in music, visual arts, and design projects. We particularly liked the photography aspect of the College, as the young people documented some of their favourite street art in Manchester.
