AWW22 Writing Art - Angela O'Keeffe and Claire Thomas

Chaired by Kate Mildenhall.


Two of 2021’s most innovative and engrossing books have works of
art at their heart. Claire Thomas’s The Performance is set over a
single theatrical performance, and uses the potent image of the
trapped Winnie in Beckett’s masterpiece Happy Days to explore the
colliding but disparate lives of three women. Angela O’Keeffe’s
Night Blue is audaciously told from the perspective of our
National Gallery’s most famous acquisition, Jackson Pollock’s
Blue Poles, as it examines an artist’s life and the eternal
conundrum of great art that springs from monstrous creators.