Andrew Lambirth (b.1959) is a writer, critic, curator and collagist. He has written on art for a number of publications including The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, The Sunday Times, Modern Painters, The Art Newspaper and RA, the Royal Academy magazine.
Among his many books are monographs on John Nash, Helen Clapcott, Craigie Aitchison, Roger Hilton, Maggi Hambling, John Hoyland, David Inshaw, Margaret Mellis, Allen Jones, William Gear, L. S. Lowry and R. B. Kitaj.
He has curated exhibitions of work by Eileen Agar, Peter Blake, Jean Cooke, Keith Grant, Maggi Hambling, Roger Hilton, Ivon Hitchens and Cedric Morris for various museums and public galleries, and an exhibition of his own collages was shown at the Redfern Gallery in London in 2022.
He was art critic of The Spectator between 2002 and 2014, and his reviews have been collected in a paperback entitled A is a Critic. Recent books include The Uglow Papers and Craxton's Cats. He is currently editing the memoirs of film director Christopher Miles.
