Exaggerated Expression

In this lecture William Feaver will be talking about the pursuit of excess in everything from caricature to IMAX via the Grand Canyon by way of the overdone, the overworked, the oversized (and the marvellous).

William Feaver, for many years the art critic for The Observer, is also a painter and has been the curator of exhibitions ranging from George Cruikshank at the V&A to the Tate retrospectives of Michael Andrews and Lucian Freud (the subject of his most recent book) as well as Constable: Selection by Lucien Freud at The Grand Palais, Paris in 2003. His book Pitmen Painters was recently adapted by Lee Hall for an award-winning play and he is at present organising an exhibition in Vienna titled When We Were Young, a study of children's book illustration. His book, Frank Auerbach, was published in 2009 and he is currently completing volume two of his Lucian Freud biography.