Andrew Graham-Dixon
Best known for:
Best known for being one of the leading art critics and broadcasters in the English-speaking world.
Summary:
Andrew is an art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster, serving as current chief art critic for the Sunday Telegraph, and formerly held the same position with the Independent newspaper. Andrew also is regularly demonstrates his artistically au-fait knowledge on the BBC 2 show, The Culture Show. Andrew has also been a part of the judging panel for the Turner, BP National Portrait, and British Animation awards.
Biography:
Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world. He has presented six landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed A History of British Art, Renaissance and Art of Eternity, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. For more than twenty years he has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and more recently, in the Sunday Telegraph. He has written a number of acclaimed books, on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture to the art of the present.
He has a long history of public service in the field of the visual arts, having judged the Turner Prize, the BP National Portrait Prize and the Annual British Animation Awards, among many other prizes. He has served on the Government Art Collection Committee, the Hayward Advisory Committee, and is currently a member of the board of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.
In the course of his career, Andrew has won numerous awards for writing and broadcasting and his achievements have been acclaimed by many of his most distinguished peers.
According to Robert Hughes, former art critic of Time magazine and writer of the epoch-making Shock of the New: “Andrew Graham-Dixon is the most gifted art critic of his generation. Unsparing, witty and probing, with a supple style, a real passion for the concrete body of art and a clear sense of its social environment, he encourages you to think and feel”.
John Russell, long-time art critic of The New York Times, has written that “In fifty years’ experience as a fellow workman in the field, I have never known an art critic in London who responds so well, year in and year out, to the challenge of subjects that cover the whole range of Western art.”
Andrew's most recent book is a biography of Caravaggio. Published by Penguin Books in July 2010, it was short listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and has recently been released in America, published by Norton.
Fee range:
5,000-10,000 GBP