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Nancy Durrant is a British journalist. Since February 2020 she has been the Arts Editor of the Evening Standard in London; previously she worked as 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, Times Radio and LBC, and writes, programmes and presents Cultural Capital, a ten-minute weekly culture programme on the Evening Standard's YouTube channel. She has been a judge for 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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  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Nancy Durrant (20 September 2013). "My (tiring) days as a sculpture model". The Times. Retrieved 8 June 2017.

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