Nancy Durrant

{{Short description|British culture journalist and broadcast}}

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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Nancy-Durrant |title=Nancy Durrant |work=The Times |date= |access-date=9 January 2014}} She has presented on the BBC Culture Show,{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ysk62 |title=BBC Two - The Culture Show, 2010/2011, Episode 19 |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=20 February 2011 |accessdate=9 January 2014}} 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{{cite web |url=http://www.fadwebsite.com/2012/05/17/artist-julia-vogl-named-winner-of-the-catlin-art-prize-2012-public-vote-winner-adeline-de-monseignat/ |title=Artist Julia Vogl named winner of the Catlin Art Prize 2012 Public vote winner Adeline de Monseignat |publisher=Fadwebsite |date=17 May 2012 |accessdate=9 January 2014 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108234139/http://www.fadwebsite.com/2012/05/17/artist-julia-vogl-named-winner-of-the-catlin-art-prize-2012-public-vote-winner-adeline-de-monseignat/ |archivedate=8 January 2014 |df=dmy-all }} and Sky Arts Ignition Futures Fund.{{cite web|url=http://www.ideastap.com/ideasmag/the-knowledge/nancy-durrant-sky-interview |title=Nancy Durrant: Arts journalist |publisher=Ideastap.com |date= |accessdate=9 January 2014}} She is referenced in the Rose Wylie painting PV Windows & Floorboards 2011, featured in the film by Adolfo Doring.{{cite web |url=http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/channel/4/afternoon-with-rose-wylie |title=Jerwood |accessdate=2014-02-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102191828/http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/channel/4/afternoon-with-rose-wylie |archivedate=2 January 2014 |df=dmy-all }}

A terracotta portrait by Jon Edgar was exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2013 as part of the Sculpture Series Heads Jon Edgar - Sculpture Series Heads: Terracotta Portraits of Contributors to British Sculpture (2013) Scott, M., Hall, P., and Pheby, H. {{ISBN|978-0955867514}} exhibition. The sitting was documented{{cite web |url=http://www.ingramcollection.com/how-to-get-a-head-in-sculpture-my-tiring-life-as-a-model/ |title=How to get a head in sculpture: My tiring life as a model « the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art |accessdate=2014-04-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140403171517/http://www.ingramcollection.com/how-to-get-a-head-in-sculpture-my-tiring-life-as-a-model/ |archivedate=3 April 2014 |df=dmy-all }} in The Times.{{cite web|author=Nancy Durrant |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/my-tiring-days-as-a-sculpture-model-bwq0gk8n09j |title=My (tiring) days as a sculpture model |work=The Times |date=20 September 2013 |access-date=8 June 2017}}