Andrew Graham-Dixon

Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world. He has presented six landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed 'A History of British Art', 'Renaissance' and 'Art of Eternity', as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. Since 2006, Andrew has also been the face of the visual arts on BBC2's flagship cultural programme, The Culture Show. For more than twenty years he has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and, more recently, in the Sunday Telegraph, writing reviews as well as the popular weekly column 'In the Picture'. He has written a number of acclaimed books, on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture to the art of the present, including 'Howard Hodgkin', 'A History of British Art', 'Paper Museum' and 'Renaissance'. He has won numerous awards for writing and broadcasting, including the Arts Journalist of the Year Award three years in a row, and the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism. He is married with three children and lives in London.