Christine Lindey

Art historian Christine Lindey uncovers a forgotten or marginalised area of socially committed British art from the 1930s to the Cold War and argues that the work deserves to be rediscovered and enjoyed.

Lindey looks at the circumstances that made these artists socially committed and made them swim against the artistic conventions of their time. She argues that the work of these artists takes on a new relevance in an age when capitalism is in a seemingly continuous state of crisis.

Before retiring Lindey was an associate lecturer in art history at the University of the Arts, London, and at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a visual arts critic for the Morning Star.