Nancy Durrant

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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]

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  1. "Nancy Durrant". The Times . Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  2. "BBC Two - The Culture Show, 2010/2011, Episode 19". Bbc.co.uk. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  3. "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.
  4. "Nancy Durrant: Arts journalist". Ideastap.com. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  5. "Jerwood". Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  6. Jon Edgar - Sculpture Series Heads: Terracotta Portraits of Contributors to British Sculpture (2013) Scott, M., Hall, P., and Pheby, H. ISBN   978-0955867514
  7. "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.
  8. Nancy Durrant (20 September 2013). "My (tiring) days as a sculpture model". The Times . Retrieved 8 June 2017.

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