Reading Prison and its most famous inmate inspire major new project

Artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve McQueen, Marlene Dumas, and Robert Gober will show new works in Reading Prison as part of a project inspired by its most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde. The Irish playwright was imprisoned in Reading prison, formerly known as Reading Gaol, from 1895 to 1897 for committing acts of gross indecency with male persons.The initiative InsideArtists and Writers in Reading Prison (4 September-30 October), organised by the non-profit art commissioning body Artangel,