The Times named Gavin Plumley a ‘leading cultural historian’. Known for his work on Central European art and music – through his live lectures at museums, galleries and festivals, in articles for newspapers and magazines, and on radio, TV and film – Gavin’s expertise spans various periods and disciplines.

His first book, A Home for All Seasons, was published in 2022. Gavin is currently working on his second, The Gay Apocalypse: Queer Life and Culture in Vienna 1900, which will be published in 2027 by Constable (Little, Brown) and in German by Molden (Styria Buchverlage).

Born in Dundee in 1981, Gavin is half-Welsh, half-English. He studied music at Keble College, Oxford and lives in Herefordshire with his husband, Alastair Tighe, and their dogs, Nimrod and Scudder.

You can follow Gavin on Instagram.

He is represented by John Ash at CAA.
Foreign rights enquiries should be sent to Jake Smith-Bosanquet at CAA.

Text © Gavin Plumley, 2025.
Photographs © Theresa Pewal, 2017.