On Making Art and Finding Love

The Guardian asked me to write one of their big essays. So I had to think long and hard about why I wanted to spend years and years researching and writing about these two long-dead and almost-forgotten men. I looked at their world, of Fascism in the 1940s, and our world now. I saw what had changed and what had not. And I started writing.

“The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?”

You can read the whole article here (a warning: it contains some spoilers).

You can catch me at Hatchards on publication day in conversation with Tom Dyckhoff. Or at Pallant House Gallery on 5th September in conversation with Simon Martin. Please ask your local library to get the book in or preorder it, if you can.

Thank you for reading and sharing.