Exhibition
Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison
04 Sep 2016 – 04 Dec 2016
HM Prison Reading
Reading, United Kingdom
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Jean-Michel Pancin's In Memoriam (2016). Materials: Concrete plinth, steel frame, Original wooden door to Oscar Wilde’s cell. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Analix Forever and Galleries of Justice Museum, Nottingham. Installed in the old chapel which rises through the first and second floors of the Victorian wing of HM Prison Reading, part of Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison. Photograph: Marcus J. Leith, August 2016
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Jean-Michel Pancin's In Memoriam (2016). Materials: Concrete plinth, steel frame, Original wooden door to Oscar Wilde’s cell. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Analix Forever and Galleries of Justice Museum, Nottingham. Installed in the old chapel as part of Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison. Photograph: Will Eckersley 2 September 2016.
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Inside the chapel which rises through the first and second floors of the Victorian wing of HM Prison Reading. Photograph: Morley von Sternberg, June 2016
Talk
Fiona Shaw reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol
4 Dec 2016
Event times
12:00 – 13:15
Cost of entry
£20 (includes entry to exhibition)
HM Prison Reading
Address
- Forbury Road
- Reading
England - RG1 3HY
- United Kingdom
Event map
"All that we know who lie in gaol; Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year; A year whose days are long." – Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
About
Award-winning actor Fiona Shaw will give a reading of Wilde’s final work The Ballad of Reading Gaol – written after Wilde's release on 19 May 1897 – and other writings from inside the prison chapel.
