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Nick Hugh McCann (born 5 July 1957) is a maverick British painter and film-maker who graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

=Early life=

Nicholas Hugh McCann was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. His parents are Ray Hugh McCann, a retired bank manager (born 8 July 1931) and Beryl Elizabeth McCann (born 5 March 1934). He has a younger brother, Jeremy. In 1969, when Nick was 12, the family moved to Bramcote, Nottingham, where he attended The Bramcote School. He spent a year at the Falmouth School of Art for a year before studying for a degree in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, graduating in 1979.