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Books Pitmen Painters, The art of John Martin | ||
William Feaver (born 1 December 1942) is a British art critic, curator, artist and lecturer. From 1975–1998 he was the chief art critic of the Observer, and from 1994 a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. His book The Pitmen Painters inspired the play of the same name by Lee Hall.
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Education
Feaver was educated at Nottingham High School and Keble College, Oxford. After graduatiing from Oxford he became a teacher at Newcastle's Royal Grammar School (1965-71) before being appointed the Sir James Knott Fellow at Newcastle University. He is currently an academic board member of the Royal Drawing School.
Career as art critic
While at Newcastle, Feaver became the art critic of the Newcastle Journal before being appointed auccessively to the Listener (1971-75) and the Financial Times (1974-75) before being joining the Observer. He won the Art Critic of the Year award in 1983.
Exhibitions curated
Feaver has curated a number of exhibitions in the UK and abroad, including:
Books published
Family
His father was the Rt Rev Douglas Feaver. In 1964 Feaver married Victoria Turton (the poet Vicki Feaver). They had one son and three daughters. He married, secondly, in 1985, Andrea Rose OBE; they have two daughters, Alice and Dorothy.