Drawing a line: Meet the convicted terrorist turned art teacher

A new documentary shows how art was the saving grace of a former convicted loyalist terrorist and drug dealer, writes Suzanne Harrington

Artist Stephen Greer

Creativity is an inside job, but can art save your life? Stephen Greer is living proof that it can. 

The 43-year-old artist from Bangor, Co Down, is an ex-inmate of Magilligan Prison, Co Derry. He’s a convicted terrorist, former drug dealer and addict, and former Loyalist paramilitary, who was sentenced to a total of 42 years, of which he served around six.