These powerful pieces come from The Peace Museum in Salts Mill, Saltaire. Prisoner of Conscience is a three part work by Malcolm Brocklesby. This is what he says about the image above:
Then there is a second piece:
This illustrates …
The third image is simply a locked padlock, keeping a small heavy door irrevocably shut. We imagine, behind it, a prisoner the world has forgotten.
A sombre piece for an increasingly sombre world.
For Becky’s NovemberShadows.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
The first one gives me the heebie-jeebies, but that’s what art is intended to do- draw attention to a sad cause xx
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Exactly. This rather small exhibit stayed large in my mind for hours.
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Very touching post and art
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Yes. It was well-realised.
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Extremely powerful, particularly that second image. Not a museum I’ve heard of before.
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Nor me. The museum itself has apparently been around since the 90s, but only here since 2024. It’s small, but full of though-provoking – not always distressing – content.
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Almost too much for me late on a Saturday night
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Sure. Not good thoughts to go to bed with.
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Not really
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Beautiful pieces which are true and a very sobering
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It definitely gave a long pause for thought.
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Understandable
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This is so powerful. And truly sobering.
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It was quite a small piece. But a huge impact, I found.
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wow makes you pause for a moment doesn’t it, and just think . . .
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It certainly stopped me in my tracks.
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Sombre indeed, and very powerful
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It was. Once seen, not soon forgotten.
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Powerful thought provoking pieces Margaret, there lurks the shadow.
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Indeed it does. A long shadow.
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Thanks for this, Margaret.
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It was a sombre, necessary piece in such a place.
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Very shadowy in concept and physical imaging.
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Indeed. And rightly so.
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Definitely sombre and disturbing. In the context of shadow I like the two different views of the hand its shadow reveals.
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I really liked that one too. And I was surprised when I went to the Cathedral to sing today that there was another sculpture by the same man. I’d never noticed it before. Judging by this one, he works to themes his social conscience dictates.
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Small, but extremely powerful!
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Small said it all, in fact.
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Wow! Even without the signs, those sculptures express those feelings. Beautiful and powerful!
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I definitely thought so.
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Oh that ending really hits hard Margaret. Nothing is more chilling that a prisoner the world has forgotten, and I have no doubt there are many
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Sadly so. And our world is getting no better. We’re slow learners.
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Very emotional sculptures, with a strong message about oppression
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It stopped me in my tracks, for sure.
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Truly sobering, and stays with you once seen. very powerful
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I definitely felt that, Sue.
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powerful art
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