Notes from Grendon marks the midway point of Kelland’s residency at HMP Grendon, Europe’s only wholly therapeutic prison.
The book demonstrates the artist’s prolific writing practice, seen in spiralling sketchbook notes and monolithic diarised texts that chart the first year of the residency.
It also features an interview with Jonathan Watkins, former Ikon Director, alongside a series of etchings made by prison residents.
The final section of the book includes examples of more than 60 letters exchanged with the prison during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020-2021.
