Laura Cumming

Art Critic

Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her book The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez won the James Tait Black Biography Prize; her memoir On Chapel Sands was a Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. Her latest book, Thunderclap, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Writer's Prize for Non-Fiction and was Book of the Year at the 2024 Saltire Society Awards.