Dr Haycock is a specialist on British art in the first half of the twentieth century and the author of several acclaimed books including A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009) and Brilliant Destiny: The Age of Augustus John (2023). He has previously curated Piano Nobile’s Paul Nash Watercolours 1910–1946: Another Life, Another World (2014) and Dulwich Picture Gallery’s British Surrealism(2020).