The Arts Desk

Lisa-Marie Ferla

Emma Dibdin

Matilda Battersby

Matilda has worked at The Independent online since 2009 and is also a regular contributor to Viewpoint magazine. She writes about art, theatre and new music.

Tom Birchenough

Tom has been based in Moscow since 1991, from where he writes for a range of publications. He has contributed to Variety since 1993, and is the film critic for...

Ismene Brown

Ismene was a musician and political journalist before becoming the Daily Telegraph's dance critic for 13 years. She regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio on dance...

Geoff Brown

David Cheal

Russ Coffey

Russ directed the award-winning documentary Hookers For Jesus and has also written on serial killer Dennis Nilsen, the Church of Scientology and been a...

Alexandra Coghlan

Alexandra is the classical music critic of the New Statesman, and has written on arts for publications including the Guardian, Prospect, Opera Now, The Oxford...

Peter Culshaw

Peter is a music and arts broadcaster and has written for the Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Songlines, among others in the UK and internationally. He...

Bruce Dessau

Bruce specialises in music, television and comedy. He writes regularly for The Times and The London Evening Standard and has written books on a number of...

Jillian Edelstein

Jillian photographed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa for the New York Times and many other stories for The New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity...

Judith Flanders

Judith is the author of A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Louisa Baldwin, Agnes Poynter and Georgiana Burne-Jones, The Victorian House:...

Graham Fuller

Graham is a British writer and editor based in New York since 1986. He was the executive editor at Interview magazine (1990-2000) and the Sunday arts editor at...

Gerard Gilbert

Gerard has been a television critic and feature writer for the Independent since 1994. He has also written about TV and cinema for Time Out, The New Statesman...

Ryan Gilbey

was named Reviewer of the Year in the 2007 Press Gazette Magazine Awards. He is the film critic of the New Statesman and also contributes to the Guardian and...

Thomas H Green

Thomas writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and Mixmag. He has been a consistent presence in the UK dance music media since the mid-Nineties and has also...

Nick Hasted

Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Sight...

Mark Hudson

Mark is the author of Titian, the Last Days. He writes on art and music for the Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and The Observer. His other books include...

Sheila Johnston

Sheila worked on the launch of the Independent, where she was a writer-editor and film critic for 10 years. She has written on cinema for the Daily Telegraph...

Sarah Kent

Sarah was the visual arts editor art of Time Out, the ICA’s Director of Exhibitions, has served on Turner Prize and other juries, and has written catalogues...

Mark Kidel

Mark is a documentary filmmaker and writer specialising in the arts and music. Recent films include Grierson Award-winner Hungary 1956: Our Revolution and...

Holly Kyte

Holly was formerly the Arts...

Veronica Lee

Veronica is an award-winning writer and critic who contributes on theatre and comedy to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and London Evening...

Charlotte MacMillan

Charlotte is a London-based photographer specialising in portraiture and theatre photography. She has exhibited at the Royal Opera House and City Hall and has...

Howard Male

Howard has written on music for the Independent, Songlines, The Word and other publications. He is also a musician and has just completed his first novel, Etc...

Sam Marlowe

Sam trained as an actor, and began her writing career as a critic and features writer for What's On In London magazine. She later became the magazine's theatre...

Demetrios Matheou

Demetrios Matheou is the film critic for The Sunday Herald. He also writes about film for a number of other publications, including The Independent on Sunday,...

Joe Muggs

Joe writes regularly for The Word, Wire and Mixmag, specialising in electronic music and the anything-but-grey areas where genres and media dissolve into one...

David Nice

David was formerly a music critic for the Guardian and Sunday Correspondent. A regular BBC music broadcaster, he has written books on Elgar, Richard Strauss,...

Marcus O'Dair

Mark Pappenheim

Mark was arts editor and music critic of the Independent and has written on music for the Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, BBC Music Magazine...

Peter Quinn

Peter has written on classical music and jazz for Tempo, Jazzwise, The Times Literary Supplement, BBC Music Magazine and International Record Review, among...

James Rampton

James writes on television and comedy for the Daily Telegraph, Independent, The Times and The Scotsman.

Jasper Rees

Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and...

Graham Rickson

Graham, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds. He works in primary schools as a languages and music specialist and is a keen advocate of the ukulele as...

Edward Seckerson

Edward is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the...

Aleks Sierz

Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at...

Emma Simmonds

Emma is a film and TV critic whose words have appeared in Time Out, Little White Lies, The List, The Spectator and Popmatters, amongst many others. She is also...

Neil Smith

ASH Smyth

ASH Smyth has written about music and the arts for The Oxford Times, The First Post, The Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today, whatsonstage.com,...

Josh Spero

Josh is the editor of Spear's magazine. He has written for The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, the Economist and the National Theatre. He is a regular...

Sue Steward

Sue is a writer and broadcaster on world and fringe music and photography for the Telegraph, Observer, Guardian, BBC, Songlines, and British Journal of...

Adam Sweeting

Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph,...

Graeme Thomson

Graeme has written extensively on popular culture for, among others, the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, The Word, Uncut, Time Out and the Herald. His books...

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Igor is a critic, curator and film-maker. He writes for The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, The Economist, Opera and a wide range of...

Kieron Tyler

Kieron contributes to MOJO, and his writing has also appeared in Q, The Guardian, The Independent, Music Week, Billboard and Rockfort, the website covering the...

Stephen Walsh

Stephen is a former Observer music critic and a regular contributor to The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and the BBC. He is the author...

William Ward

William has lived between London and Rome for 30 years, writing and broadcasting in Italian and English as a political analyst and cultural commentator. He is...

Hilary Whitney

Hilary has written on theatre and film for the Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times, and has been a judge for the London Fringe Theatre...

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