Jonathan Meades
'Britain's finest and most controversial architectural writer since Ian Nairn' - The Royal Fine Art Commission
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'Jonathan Meades is the most significant cultural critic writing in English today.'
Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph
'Never has television been used so intelligently, so imaginatively, as by Jonathan Meades.'
Roger Lewis, The Oldie
'The best history programmes on television... A marriage of Borges, Betjeman and Bronowski.'
Paul Lay, History Today
'Often dark, sometimes bleak, a believer in lost causes, Meades is Britain's finest and most controversial art critic since Ian Nairn.' Royal Fine Art Commission
Books
Meades's books include three works of fiction - Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business - and several collections of non-fiction, including Museum Without Walls and, most recently, Pedro and Ricky Come Again.
Television
Meades has written and performed in more than 60 television shows on predominantly topographical subjects such as shacks, garden cities, megastructures, buildings associated with vertigo, beer, pigs, and the architecture of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Franco.
Art
Meades has had two solo exhibitions of his artworks, which range from the stubbornly monochrome to the tartily gaudy, in London and Harrogate. A collection of his photos was published by Unbound in the form of a box of 100 postcards entitled Pidgin Snaps.
