Untitled
Prison Vernacular
Artist name
Artist year born
1955
Artwork make date
2002
Artwork material
digital print
paper
paper
Artwork dimensions
height: 43cm
width: 30cm
width: 30cm
Artwork type (categories)
Photographic Installation
Accession method
Donated by F Marquespenteado 2003
Accession number
1:5-2003
Label text
f.marquespenteado's voluntary involvement with the Prison Service resulted in the development of a project entitled Prison Speech (2002) for which the Prison Vernacular series is a precedent. Out of a prison employment programme run by the charity Fine Cell Work f.marquespenteado developed a series of more creative workshops. These workshops recreated the oral traditional of the sewing-circle, with inmates giving accounts of their experiences on the inside which were they then made into sewed drawings.
While carrying out the workshops, and as research for his own work, f.marquespenteado interviewed inmates and officers in their cells and work spaces. Displayed in a pre-determined cycle, this series of photographs relates his intimate insight into the everyday life of Wandsworth prison, and also creates a common architectural vernacular out of the interior spaces of the prison.
Isobel Whitelegg
While carrying out the workshops, and as research for his own work, f.marquespenteado interviewed inmates and officers in their cells and work spaces. Displayed in a pre-determined cycle, this series of photographs relates his intimate insight into the everyday life of Wandsworth prison, and also creates a common architectural vernacular out of the interior spaces of the prison.
Isobel Whitelegg
Last updated date
2008