Home Ground

Home Ground is a creativity and wellbeing initiative for women who have experienced
incarceration or are engaged in the justice system, and artists who choose to collaborate
with this community. This initiative is designed so women and artists can co-create an
artistic response to the current issue’s women and whānau face during the experience of
incarceration and reintegration back into the community.

Each Home Ground project runs for three weeks intensively, with four weeks of
maintenance sessions. The project uses creative arts practice such as theatre,
photography, creative writing and music as a non-threatening, strengths-based approach to
self-empowerment, community connectedness and wellbeing. Home Ground is a
collaborative project, co-designed by women in the justice system and uses
trauma-informed practice.

Previous projects have been supported by Creative New Zealand, The Department of
Corrections, Sonja Davies Peace Award, Heather and Brian Main, The Ministry of Women's
Affairs.

Home Ground is a collective of artists, responding to the challenges women and whānau
face in the justice system.

Creative Director: Jacqui Moyes
Clinical Director: Anita Grafton

Participants: Women in the justice system (Prison/Probation/community sentence), women
who are no longer in the system but have experienced the system, emerging artists and peer
mentors (those that continue to work with Home Ground for more than one project).

Contributing Artists: A range of multidisciplinary practitioners, as available or as the project
calls for. Fraser was responsible for delivering a series of workshops examining identity and story-telling through personal photography.

Further information:

https://www.homegroundnz.com/