Chantal Joffe & Olivia Laing: Painting Writing Texting

Painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing on friendship and collaboration.

In 2016 the painter Chantal Joffe approached the writer Olivia Laing to ask if they would sit for a portrait. Out of that meeting emerged a close friendship and collaboration, and out of that collaboration has emerged Painting, Writing, Texting (Mack), an account in words and images of what can happen when those two ways of looking at the world converge. Both painter and writer were in conversation at the London Review Bookshop to talk about art, writing and collaboration, chaired by Emily Labarge (Dog Days).