{"id":1649,"date":"2024-06-06T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/?post_type=exhibitions&#038;p=1649"},"modified":"2024-09-24T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:23:23","slug":"postcards-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/exhibitions\/postcards-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Postcards from Prison <\/em>sees current and former prisoners sharing their unique perspectives, emotions and talents through a diverse array of artworks, offering a glimpse into the complexities of life behind bars and the transformative power of art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through programs such as JETA, art-making has shown to have a significant role in the rehabilitation and reintegration of incarcerated people into wider communities, preventing alienation and recidivism. To learn artistic skills and thinking promotes self-critical thinking and imagination, an access to a refreshed sense of self and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opening:<\/strong> 16 May 2024<br><strong>Exhibition Continues: <\/strong>17 May &#8211; 8 July 2024<br><strong>Supported By:<\/strong> Justice and Equity Through Art (JETA) program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Evening-Landscape-2023-Acrylic-on-Canvas--1920x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1653\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Evening Landscape 2023, (detail). Every evening I watch the sun go down and think how my life is passing by. I think to myself how much I miss my family and my Country, the South West, and being free. Being free is like the eagle soaring through life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"template":"","exhibition-locations":[3],"class_list":["post-1649","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","hentry","exhibition-locations-john-curtin-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition-locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition-locations?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}