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Nicola McCartney
Nicola McCartney is an artist and educator (www.nicolamccartney.co.uk). She has undertaken residencies overseas and in the United Kingdom, including last year at Yinka Shonibare MBE’s studio. She is a lecturer in cultural studies for fashion/textile and jewellery programmes at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and is currently Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, History of Art Department, University of London, where she completed her Ph.D. researching artistic identity and authorship. Her monograph, Death of the Artist: Art World Dissidents and Their Alternative Identities (I.B. Tauris) is out later this year. She is interested in gender, ageing, celebrity culture, performance, authorship and modes of documentation/artistic historiography.