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 On a low whitewashed outbuilding in the grounds of HMP Grendon, close to double rows of tall barbed-wire fences, an image of Elvis as a cowboy with the orange-mulleted head of David Bowie cuts a surreal figure. The image announces a new studio-cum-art gallery at Europe's only fully therapeutic prison, where 260 inmates - 70% of them lifers - spe...
'It felt like being stripped naked': the prisoners confronting their crimes with art
The Guardian - 11 Dec 2023 11:00
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 On a low whitewashed outbuilding in the grounds of HMP Grendon, close to double rows of tall barbed-wire fences, an image of Elvis as a cowboy with the orange-mulleted head of David Bowie cuts a surreal figure. The image announces a new studio-cum-art gallery at Europe's only fully therapeutic prison, where 260 inmates - 70% of them lifers - spe...
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