This is a proposal for an innovative community arts project – a collaboration with LandWorks – which will actively improve prisoners and ex-prisoners chances of gaining employment, while building trusting relationships within the local community by:

• Teaching and developing practical skills in dry stone walling, cob-walling, carpentry, landscaping, construction work, and horticulture.
• Inviting the local community closer to the LandWorks project by creating an interactive visitors space.
• Building trainees self-worth by fulfilling the need to create something they are proud of and sharing ownership of the work.
• Improving trainees social skills by working collaboratively with a range of skilled professionals, volunteers, and artists.

This project is in the process of gaining funding from arts institutions – more to follow soon!

Special thanks to Jakob Benjamin for frame drawings below.

Cob wall drawing for LandWorks timeline art project

Frame drawing of LandWorks project by Jakob Benjamin

Frame drawing of LandWorks project by Jakob Benjamin