CONVERSATIONS AT THE CHAPEL – ABERGAVENNY – LAURA CUMMING – WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER – 7.30 – £13

Laura Cumming has been the art critic at the Observer since 1999.   She is also the writer of acclaimed books that combine a deep love of art, a critical eye and autobiography.

Her latest Thunderclap is a memoir that connects her own life with that of her father’s paintings and those of the Dutch Golden Age.  It has been published to rave reviews:

‘Cumming is a word-painter … When something fascinates Laura Cumming, she makes sure, with her beguiling prose, that we too are caught up in her fascination’
The Times

Her other books include A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits (2009) and The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez (2016) which won the James Tait Black Biography Prize.

A previous family memoir, On Chapel Sands: my mother and other Missing Persons (2019) was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Costa and Rathbone’s Folio prizes.

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