Jennifer Higgie: Bedlam

A painter of fairies, a deranged murderer, and an inmate of history’s most notorious insane asylum: Victorian artist Richard Dadd is the mesmerising subject of Jennifer Higgie’s ‘dream-fever’ of a novel, Bedlam.

Former editor of Frieze magazine, Turner Prize judge, and celebrated author of The Other Side, Higgie brings her formidable art critic’s intelligence to an enthralling conversation with Di Speirs about art and illness, vision and delusion, and the transcendent, unsettling power of paint.