Nigella Lawson is becoming an art critic.
Nigella Lawson
The 61-year-old celebrity chef has signed up to join artist Grayson Perry in his new series of ‘Grayson's Art Club’ on Channel 4, which mixes celebrity guests and world-renowned artists to judge works of arts submitted by the public.
Nigella – who was previously married to Saatchi gallery owner, Charles Saatchi, for a decade between 2003 and 2013 – will judge the art submitted during a food-themed week, whilst musician Sophie Ellis-Bextor will join Grayson in Dreams week.
Other famous faces including musician Boy George, illusionist Derren Brown, actor Russell Tovey, presenters Sue Perkins and Konnie Huq, and comedians Johnny Vegas and Mawaan Rizwan will all present their own artworks during the series.
Nigella’s interest in art comes after she previously described cooking as an artform, because she often improvises with her own recipes to create something new.
She said: “Cooking, like life, is an improvisational art!”
And the ‘How to Be a Domestic Goddess’ author was also previously asked to nominate the riskiest pieces of art in January last year.
She responded: “I’d have thought all art is, essentially, a risk.”
Nigella will be appearing on the second series of ‘Grayson's Art Club’ when it starts again on February 26 on Channel 4.
The six-episode series will see Grayson incorporate weekly themes for members of the public to submit artwork to, including Family, Nature, Food, Dreams, Work and Travel.
Grayson will also be paying a virtual visit to fellow artists’ studios including Yinka Illori, David Bailey, Rose Wylie, Sir Frank Bowling and Ryan Gander.
Meanwhile, the cooking show host has claimed she will be going on a social "diet" following the coronavirus pandemic.
She said: "I realise that rather than finding solitary confinement alienating, it's what has always passed for real life that seems so unnatural to me now. It seems unfathomable, for example, that we used to go out at night. Why would you do that? How did any of us have the energy?
"...This is not to say I don't love my friends. Nor do I deny that company can be as uplifting as it can be exhausting. I just don't want much of it, not yet.
"And so - in words I never thought I'd utter - I'm going on a diet: the 5:2, only with people, rather than food.
"Whatever we're told we are allowed to do, I am not going to be gadding about, but for two evenings a week - or maybe just lunches at the weekend - I will pretend to be a normal person, letting those strange entities, people, into the garden, and apply myself to learning how to have a conversation again.
"For the other five, I will continue, greedily and gratefully, to feed on solitude and silence."
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