Studio

Dr. Gill Gregory is a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame in London. She is the author of poetry, biography, and memoir, and has reviewed extensively for the Times Literary Supplement.

"Gill Gregory's poetic memoir maps the struggle to be free from a paralysing past by way of an exploration of paintings and psychoanalysis. The Studio breaks the mould of autobiographical writing like Marion Milner's On Not Being Able To Paint, and tells a story that is at once lyrical and scholarly, emotionally gripping and historically intriguing - moving above all. This is an outstandingly gifted and rare book." Isobel Armstrong, Professor Emeritus at Birkbeck College, University of London;"Accompanied by illuminating quotes from volumes of Freud bequeathed by her father, and beautiful reproductions of works of art bequeathed to the Tate by her uncle, Gregory's account details the impact on her and her family of her older brother's epilepsy and early death. The result is one of the most moving books I have come across in a long time." Janet Sayers, Professor Emeritus at The University Of Kent