In a new series of free evening talks, leading writers are invited to the National Gallery to give their personal response to a painting of their choice in the Gallery collection. Talks take place during Friday Lates in front of the writer’s choice of painting. Speakers so far have included Arvon tutor Philip Hensher.
Dyer’s latest novel is Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (2009), a beautifully told story of erotic love and spiritual yearning set partly in Venice where journalist Jeff Atman is covering the opening of the Biennale. The novel confirms Dyer as one of Britain’s most exciting and original writers.
On July 1oth at 6.30pm Geoff Dyer will speak in front of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, which depicts a steam engine as it advances across a bridge in the rain. In front of the train, a hare runs for cover. The scene has been identified as the railway bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead and the picture demonstrates Turner’s ability to capture atmospheric effects in paint.
Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 1958 and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Dyer is the author of four novels, a critical study of John Berger, and six other nonfiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award, Dyer is a regular contributor to publications including the Guardian and the New Statesman. He lives in London.
Engaging and funny… Dyer is a witty and concise observer of landscapes: social, geographical and emotional… [his] eccentric charm and barbed perceptiveness will hook you to the end.
The Times
Geoff Dyer will be a Guest Reader on Arvon’s Creative Non-Fiction course Shaping the Raw Material at Lumb Bank, September 28 – October 3 with tutors Miranda France and Hannah Pool.
For more information on the Writers in the Gallery series, please contact nicola.freeman@ng-london.org.uk or visit www.nationalgallery.co.uk
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