Insider Art

What I hope this timely and fascinating book does is to take the reader beyond the lurid interest in art by society''s outcasts, to discovering the hugely positive role art plays in prison life - Grayson Perry.

This is a book on the artwork produced by ''insiders'' i.e. prisoners and ex-inmates of Her Majesty''s Prison Service. The book is laid out as an art catalogue. It starts with an essay on th...