Nicola McCartney is a British artist and educator. She has exhibited throughout London and the UK, received public commissions and undertaken residencies in Jordan and her home country. Her edited volume Animal Drag (2026) is published with Manchester University Press, and her monograph Death of the Artist (2018) is published with Bloomsbury. She has also written for The Spectator, Apollo, British Art Journal and Galleries. She was a trustee of the Association of Art Historians and has been Getty Scholar. She has taught Cultural Studies and Fine Art and/or critical theory at Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts, London, Birkbeck, University of London, and The Cass, London Metropolitan University, and external institutions like the National Gallery, London. Nicola is a graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art and Oxford University. She obtained a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, teaches dance and is also a Forest School Leader.