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Jan Patience | |
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| Occupations | Journalist, author, broadcaster, communications specialist |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
| Notable work | Arrivals and Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie (2016) |
Jan Patience is a Scottish arts journalist, author, and broadcaster. She is a long-standing arts columnist for The Sunday Post[1][2] and previously wrote on visual art for The Herald.[1] She is the co-author, with Louise Wyllie, of Arrivals and Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie (2016), a biography of the Scottish artist George Wyllie.[3][4][5][6]
Career
[edit]Journalism
[edit]Patience has worked as a journalist and editor for more than 30 years, contributing to a range of publications including The Times, the Sunday Times, The Herald, the Daily Record, The National, The Sunday Post and Homes & Interiors Scotland.[1][2][7] She was previously editor of the Daily Record Saturday magazine, which won Magazine of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards during her tenure.[8]
Broadcasting
[edit]Patience appears regularly as an arts commentator on radio and television, including BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 4's Front Row,[9]BBC Scotland and STV.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]- Arrivals and Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie (with Louise Wyllie), Polygon/Birlinn, 2016. ISBN 978-1-84697-306-2.[3]
Memberships and affiliations
[edit]- Founding member and former co-chair (2019–2021) of Women in Journalism Scotland.[10]
- Former chair of the Friends of George Wyllie.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Jan Patience". Art UK. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- 1 2 Patience, Jan (10 November 2021). "Jan Patience: From Joan Eardley to Antony Gormley, our new art columnist reveals a few of her favourite pieces". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- 1 2 Vass, Stephen (18 November 2016). "A question of art". Scottish Review of Books. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- ↑ "Book review: Arrivals & Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie by Louise Wyllie and Jan Patience". The Press and Journal. 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- ↑ "The Making of George Wyllie". Scottish Affairs. Edinburgh University Press. 2017. doi:10.3366/scot.2017.0195. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- ↑ "Arrivals and Sailings: The Making of George Wyllie". Scottish Legal News. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- ↑ "Jan Patience – Journalist Profile". Muck Rack. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- 1 2 "Faclan Authors: Jan Patience". An Lanntair. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- ↑ "Front Row". BBC. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
- ↑ "Our Members". Women in Journalism Scotland. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Jan Patience at Art UK
- Jan Patience at Muck Rack