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Laura Cumming
From Velazquez and Vermeer to Fabritius and Ravilious, this richly illustrated talk centres on some of the paintings that have shaped art writer Laura Cumming's experience and understanding of life. For her, the two are never separate and she explains why.
A Life in Art
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Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of The Observer since 1999. Her award-winning books include On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez. Her recent memoir Thunderclap: Art and Life and Sudden Death was The Saltire Book of the Year 2024, was shortlisted for The Women's Prize and won the Writer's Prize for Non-Fiction in 2023.
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