Our research aims to understand how artworks produced through collaborative methodologies can contribute alternative forms of knowledge to policy discourse. We want to explore the potential of a partnership between criminology, art, and penal reform agendas, which align scholarship, artistic practice, and campaigning to harness the messages contained within each piece of co-produced art. Our first project has focused on the probation system in England and Wales and suggests that this way of working has much to offer campaigns for change in the criminal justice system