Conversations at The Chapel – LAURA CUMMING

In conversation with Alastair Laurence.

Laura Cumming’s latest book Thunderclap is a memoir that connects her own life with that of her father’s paintings and those of the Dutch Golden Age.

She has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. 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. Her 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.

Alastair Laurence, who is curating this series, is a freelance documentary film maker who lives near Abergavenny. In recent years Alastair has made films about The Battle of the Somme, a history of British Photography and the poets John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and TS Eliot.

Online tickets available HERE.