Sarah Watling
Sarah Watling is the author of ‘Noble Savages’ (Vintage), a biography of the Olivier sisters, and ‘Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War’, which will be published in February 2023 by Jonathan Cape.
The unflinching gaze of Gerda Taro
The photographer who bore witness to the Spanish Civil War paid the ultimate price for her fearlessness
26 Jan 2023
The Vorticist who was nearly painted out of history
Helen Saunders was briefly at the forefront of British modernism – before she was cancelled by Wyndham Lewis
27 Oct 2022
Duncan Grant’s private erotica finally gets a public outing
There’s nothing remotely shameful about the artist’s exuberant and explicit sketches of cavorting satyrs and manly men
22 Sep 2022
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