Alicia Foster

Dr Alicia Foster is an art historian, curator and novelist. Her latest book, Gwen John, Art and Life in London and Paris (Thames & Hudson, 2023) was accompanied by a major exhibition at Pallant House Gallery that was praised by Waldemar Janusczak in The Sunday Times as one of his ‘shows of the year’, and by Nick Robinson in an interview with Foster on BBC4’s Today programme. Her biography of John has won wide critical praise, from Laura Freeman in The Times, ‘Foster’s book and the Pallant House exhibition give us a different Gwen John, sensuous, single-minded and experimental in how she chose to live and work,’ to Jenny Uglow in The New York Review of Books, who wrote ‘Foster makes us think again … (her) study is a genuinely critical biography...letting us see a great artist working out her own way to live, draw, and paint.’ Gwen John, Art and Life in London and Paris was a Times Book of the Year in 2023.