Nan Collantine is a Manchester-based painter and artist-curator.  She was a recipient of the Castlefield Gallery Award in the Manchester Open and finalist in the Beep Painting Prize in 2022.  To strengthen her self-taught practice, Nan completed the Turps Banana Correspondence Course 2020-22 and a year with alternative art school, the Islingon Mill Art Academy in 2019.

It was whilst living in Australia from 2016-17 that Nan returned to her art practice and became immersed in Australian painting, citing Nongirrna Marawili, Tony Tuckson, Brett Whiteley, Aida Tomescu and John Olsen as significant influences in her own work which examines the human connection to place and landscape. 

In 2022 Nan established Mura Ma Art Space in Stockport which for two years exhibited predominantly female painters. In 2024 Nan exhibited in The Pearls and the Oyster at Birley Studios in Preston, The Cabinet of Fancy, with Terrace Gallery, The Canal Boat Contemporary and a duo exhibition 'Chasing the light and tracing the tides of Ynys Môn’ with Comme Ça Gallery.  In 2025; A Bell is a Cup at Bloc Projects in Sheffield, ‘The Landscape’ with Comme Ça Gallery in Manchester, Helm Contemporary in New York, Hedge Studios and Gallery Space, Sheffield, A Small Space at Macclesfield Silk Museum, Manchester Made at Waterside Arts Centre, Simulcast, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, Simulcast II at Gage Gallery Sheffield and the Bankley Open, Manchester.