ROEBOURNE PRISONERS EXHIBIT

Cossack Art Gallery is exhibiting work by 16 prisoners from Roebourne Regional Prison.

Education Tutor Kim Riordan said the prisoners had produced the work as part of a vocational training program.

“They really have to be involved in the whole process,” she said. “They buy the canvasses themselves and they pay for it, and then we do a program of the art where they can use the paint, create whatever design they choose, the story that they choose, the pricing that they choose.

“They have to get it all ready for the gallery hanging plus quite a lot of paperwork. You have to sign for consignment, and there is always a gallery commission and that is part of becoming a working artist.

“So they really learn that process of what happens when you want to put work in a gallery all the way to the end if you sell something in a gallery.”

The exhibition is a National Reconciliation Week program and it will be on display until June 7