Talking about: Another Kind Of Life, photography exhibition, Barbican
Murillo, The Self-Portraits, National Gallery
Picasso 1932, Tate Modern
Sutra - the play, with Antony Gormley, Sadlers Wells

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi | Sun 11 March 2018

Art Critic Estelle Lovatt FRSA talks to Nikki Bedi on BBC Radio London.
Round up of the London art scene highlights include:
- Monet & Architecture, National Gallery,  Includes paintings of London across the Thames, painted when Monet stayed at The Savoy hotel
- Degas: Drawn in Colour, National Gallery.  On loan from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland
- Anthea Hamilton: The Squash, Tate Britain.  Performance Art with Sculpture from the 2016 Turner Prize nominee with her giant bottom, Tate Britain
- Charles II: Art & Power, Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The Royal Collection includes Italian Renaissance and Dutch Golden Age masterpieces

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi | Sun 8 April 2018

Today the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square in London was unveiled. Millicent Fawcett, the suffragist who fought for women's right to vote in the early 20th century, joins 11 male figures including Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandi. Art critic Estelle Lovatt gives her verdict on the artwork.

Broadcast: Tue 24 Apr 2018 
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Edwina Pitman

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zt3g1#play

Front Row

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio 4 FRONT ROW | Millicent Fawcett Statue Review

13/5/18 BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi, reviewing Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, British Museum; Shape of Light: 100 years of photography and abstract art, Tate Modern; Bernard Cohen, Tate Britain; Millicent Fawcett public street sculpture by Gillian Wearing, Parliament Square.

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi | Sun 13 May 2018

10/6/18 BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi, reviewing RA Summer Exhibition 2018, & ‘The Great Spectacle: 250 Years of the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy; Thomas Cole: 'Eden to Empire’ and Ed Ruscha: 'Course of Empire’, National Gallery; All Too Human; Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, Tate Britain

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi | Sun 10 June 2018

A comprehensive retrospective of the legendary British photographer Don McCullin at Tate Britain.

Is This Tomorrow? at The Whitechapel Gallery

Phyllida Barlow at Royal Academy.

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi | Sun 24 February 2019

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi | Sun 16 Sept 2018

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi | 31 March 2019

Misinterpreting masterpieces
Art critic Estelle Lovatt explains why we might have been misinterpreting one of the world’s most famous paintings.

Estelle Lovatt on Monocle Radio | 22 March 2019

Disgusting artworks: enthralling or revolting?
Revulsion is one of the strongest human reactions and if art is designed to instil an emotional response in the viewer, what is the role of disgust in art? Stig Abell explores what makes us disgusted and how artists have used disgust to enthral or repel audiences. He speaks to artist Andrea Hasler, whose wax-based sculptures re-imagine luxury goods like handbags with raw fleshy innards, along with art critic Estelle Lovatt and horror fan Kim Newman to explore the role of disgust in visual art and film.

Image: Andrea Hasler, at Andrea Hasler, 'Burdens of Excess' installation at Gusford Los Angeles.
Image credit: Andrea Hasler/Gusford Gallery, Los Angeles

First broadcast on Front Row, 22 October 2018.

Estelle Lovatt on BBC Radio 4 Front Row

“Art Critic Estelle Lovatt FRSA has the experience of being on both sides of the canvas; having trained as a painter, read art history and as a gallery exhibition curator, Estelle is able to teach, judge and talk about works of art, from Cave Art to Banksy, with expert opinion.”

Estelle Lovatt is a freelance art critic for the BBC (radio and TV), Radio 2’s flagship arts programme ‘The Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman‘, as well as for various independent radio stations throughout Great Britain. She writes reviews for numerous magazines and newspapers, including Art of England magazine. And lectures at the Hampstead School of Art, London. She has also written art exhibition catalogues, including ‘Henry Moore at Work’, and ‘Isis’ Halcyon Gallery, London.

“Estelle Lovatt is very interesting, articulate, knowledgeable and passionate about art.”

Contact Estelle Lovatt to speak at illustrated lectures, panels and media appearances.