Kate Chisholm

Women of substance

Plus: the happiness hiding in the little things in life from a Brazilian poet and what it was like to be rich and black in 1950s America?

issue 18 June 2016

Three women, three writers, three very different life experiences. On Monday afternoon the artist Fiona Graham-Mackay introduced us to Imtiaz Dharker, whose portrait she has been painting. While she attempts to capture a visual impression, Imtiaz, who is a poet, tells us what it feels like to be the sitter, the one who is being looked at, drawn, observed with such sharp-eyed scrutiny.

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