Laura Freeman is chief art critic of The Times and author of Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists.

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Laura is chief art critic of The Times. Formerly a freelance arts critic she has written about art, architecture and books for the Spectator, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Apollo, Literary Review, World of Interiors, Country Life and the TLS.

She is a former dance critic for the Spectator and Evening Standard and has spoken on Front Row, Saturday Review, Start the Week and the Today programme.

She read History of Art at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with a double-first in 2010.

Laura’s first book The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite was published in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and for First Book and Food Book at the Guild of Food Writers Awards. The Reading Cure was a Times, Daily Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year 2018.

Please email Laura through Janklow & Nesbit queries@janklow.co.uk