Nancy Durrant
Nancy Durrant is a British culture journalist and broadcaster. From February 2020 to March 2024 she was the Culture Editor of the Evening Standard in London; previously she worked for many years as an art critic and Arts Commissioning Editor for The Times.[1] She has presented on the BBC Culture Show,[2] contributed to Channel 4 News, Sky News, The Today Programme, Front Row, Times Radio and LBC. During her time at the Standard she wrote, programmed and presented Cultural Capital, a ten-minute weekly culture programme on the Evening Standard's YouTube channel including the popular 60 Second Film Review. She has been a judge for the South Bank Show Awards, the Catlin Art Prize[3] and Sky Arts Ignition Futures Fund.[4] She is referenced in the Rose Wylie painting PV Windows & Floorboards 2011, featured in the film by Adolfo Doring.[5] A terracotta portrait by Jon Edgar was exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2013 as part of the Sculpture Series Heads [6] exhibition. The sitting was documented[7] in The Times.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nancy Durrant". The Times. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ "BBC Two - The Culture Show, 2010/2011, Episode 19". Bbc.co.uk. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ "Artist Julia Vogl named winner of the Catlin Art Prize 2012 Public vote winner Adeline de Monseignat". Fadwebsite. 17 May 2012. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Nancy Durrant: Arts journalist". Ideastap.com. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ "Jerwood". Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- ^ Jon Edgar - Sculpture Series Heads: Terracotta Portraits of Contributors to British Sculpture (2013) Scott, M., Hall, P., and Pheby, H. ISBN 978-0955867514
- ^ "How to get a head in sculpture: My tiring life as a model « the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art". Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ Nancy Durrant (20 September 2013). "My (tiring) days as a sculpture model". The Times. Retrieved 8 June 2017.