College of Arts & Humanities

Creative Conversations: Olivia Laing

College of Arts Creative Conversations
Date: Thursday 15 September 2022
Time: 18:30 - 19:30
Venue: St Andrews Building, Lecture Theatre 213
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Olivia Laing
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-olivia-laing-tickets-403166089627

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She’s the author of six books, including To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013) and The Lonely City (2016). She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her books have been translated into 19 languages.

Laing’s first novel, Crudo, is a real-time account of the turbulent summer of 2017. It was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Laing writes on art and culture for the Guardian, Financial Times and New York Times, among many other publications. She’s written catalogue essays on a variety of contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Chantal Joffe. Her collected essays on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, were published in 2020.

Her most recent book is Everybody: A Book About Freedom (2021). It’s an ambitious survey of the body and its discontents, using the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom.

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