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Dean Kelland has spent almost five years making art with inmates at Europe’s only fully therapeutic jail – with a little help from Elvis and David Bowie
How an artist used pop iconography to engage with inmates whose own work has gone on display.
The centrepiece of the exhibition at Britain’s only contemporary art gallery in a prison is an installation, consisting of two broken, stained armchairs. They’ve been placed face-to-face, as if for a therapy session. Elsewhere there are silkscreen prints and paintings. This outbuilding-cum-art studio and gallery is where prisoners are also taught dry-point etching – surprising