David Trigg

David Trigg is a Bristol-based writer, critic and art historian. He has written widely on contemporary art for books and major art journals, including Studio International , The Art Newspaper , Art Monthly , ArtReview , Frieze and The Burlington Magazine . He is the author of Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers (Phaidon Press, 2018), named one of the 'art books of the year' by The Times , which examines how artists have depicted books as symbols, subjects and objects. His book Spring (Tate...See more

David Trigg is a Bristol-based writer, critic and art historian. He has written widely on contemporary art for books and major art journals, including Studio International , The Art Newspaper , Art Monthly , ArtReview , Frieze and The Burlington Magazine . He is the author of Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers (Phaidon Press, 2018), named one of the 'art books of the year' by The Times , which examines how artists have depicted books as symbols, subjects and objects. His book Spring (Tate Publishing, 2020) explores the season of spring through artworks from Tate's collection. A selection of his interviews with artists is included in Talking Art 2 (Ridinghouse, 2018). See less