Joyce Laing, who used art to help rehabilitate some of Scotland's most violent prisoners, has died.
Joyce Laing OBE spent most of her life in Pittenweem in Fife, where she founded a local arts festival
Born in Aberdeen, she studied at Gray's School of Art before becoming Scotland's first art therapist. She went on to work with patients in mental health wards and prisoners, most notably at the Barlinnie special unit.She was a collector of "outsider art", which she preferred to call "art extraordinary"Claire Coia, a curator for Glasgow's Open Museum who has researched Ms Laing's life, said: "The prison governor didn't get it, but he knew the inmates were bored and had no structure.
Author and psychotherapist Sara Trevelyan married Jimmy Boyle, a convicted murder, in 1980 while he was an inmate in the Barlinnie special unit.Ms Trevelyan said: "Jimmy was inspired by Joyce to go on a journey of expressing his talents through sculpture."When I first visited I expected a bland prison waiting room - but there were sculptures in the yard, a big mural downstairs in the cell block, and the inmates were encouraged to decorate their own rooms.
Ms Trevelyan said: "She wanted to find art produced by 'compulsion' - but the doctors and nurses said there wasn't any since what their patients produced wasn't considered art by normal standards."So Joyce went rummaging in bins and found the extraordinary art."She discovered creations by many artists including Angus MacPhee and Adam Christie, who used everyday materials to create art while they were in hospital.
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