Synopsis
'Outstanding' - The Guardian
'Judith Mackrell has done an incredible job in bringing to life the stories of these two great artists' - Anthony D’Offay
'This is a must read . . . a deeply moving account of a family bursting with talent' - Anne Sebba
In Artists, Siblings, Visionaries, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell turns her attention to British brother and sister...
Details
19 June 2025448 pages
9781529095845Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Wonderfully conjures the siblings’ radical lives and the changing world they inhabited . . . Judith Mackrell’s splendid double biography, does full justice to each of these prodigious talents.Financial Times
Superb . . . a fine portrait of these two artists.Oliver Soden, Daily Telegraph
Outstanding . . . Mackrell approaches her subjects with an almost novelistic sensibility.Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
Absorbing . . . Mackrell says in her opening pages, if Gus and Gwen were 'admirable or awful'. By the end of this haunting book they seem admirable in their awfulness.Frances Wilson, The Spectator
