A high quality limited edition print and poster on the theme of injustice has been created by emerging artist Patrick Maguire in conjunction with the UK's leading master printmaker, Kip Gresham. As one of the Maguire Seven, Patrick Maguire was a victim of a miscarriage of justice when he was wrongly convicted of explosives offences in 1975 at the age of just 14. Kip Gresham has been making original prints for artists, galleries and publishers for over 30 years, and has worked with some of the world's leading artists including John McLean, Willard Boepple and Stephen Chambers RA.

The limited edition print has been screenprinted on 300g Somerset Velvet paper in a set of 10 numbered copies signed by the artist and featuring the blind stamp of Kip Gresham's renowned Print Studio. The copies will be sold in a series of auctions in the coming 6 months.

100 posters have also been screenprinted on poster paper and signed copies will shortly be available to buy online at a cost of £5 + P&P. See colour image here

SOMEONE TO BLAME

A theatrical production highlighting Sam Hallam’s case titled Someone to Blame receives a four week run at Islington's prestigious  Kings Head Theatre commencing 6 March 2012. The theatre's publicity for the play reads:

Sam Hallam has spent the last seven years of his life in prison. At the age of 17 he was tried and convicted of murder following an attack in Finsbury by a group of Hoxton youths . Sam denies that he was even there. With little education and no funds, he was at the mercy of the justice system. The evidence that put him in prison was so deeply flawed that in 2011 the Criminal Cases Review Commission referred Sam's case back to the Court of Appeal. The prosecution's evidence consisted of two unreliable eye-witnesses; one retracted his accusation in court, and the other admitted that when she accused Sam she had been looking for “someone to blame.”
 
Playwright Tess Berry-Hart has used extracts from recent interviews and written sources to create the verbatim play Someone to Blame in order to highlight the case, directed by David Mercatali (Tender Napalm "sensationally staged" - The Guardian). 

 

Miscarriages of justice might not always make the news, but they still happen. This is Sam's story, word for word.



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See Hackney Citizen interview with Tess Berry-Hart about Someone to Blame