Angela Findlay (www.angelafindlay.com) gave two really excellent talks to the Williams Project, based on her twenty years’ experience encouraging prisoners to paint and draw. After a shocking introduction to the demographics of the prison population (particularly the huge proportion of prisoners with mental health issues), she described how she worked, for example, with two prisoners sharing a canvas: it was fascinating to observe (and, for the prisoners, revealing and therapeutic) the different responses to borders – how much would they genuinely share the space, and how much would they mark off half-way and stick to their own side?

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