Choirstaidh Iona NicArtair is a multidisciplinary artist from Greenock, currently based in Glasgow. NicArtair was educated through Gàidhlig Medium Education from 2-18, then went on to study Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art. She predominantly works in the Gaelic language. 

Since 2022, NicArtair has been creating Gaelic clothing under the brand name Bragail, the Gaelic word for brazen. The project seeks to celebrate the cheek it takes to keep a culture and language alive. Part of Bragail's mission statement reads, "'S e iomairt punc a th'ann an Gàidhlig". 

NicArtair was named the Young Gaelic Ambassador of the Year at the 2021/22 Scottish Gaelic Awards, for her work on social media to normalise the use of the language. This also led to the creation of the CBBC ALBA kids’ art strand A’ Chùil in 2021, as well as her position as Seachdain na Gàidhlig Ambassador in 2023. In the same year, NicArtair’s short film Priob (2022), featuring music by Billy McArthur, the artist’s brother, won the FilmG Choice Award at the 2023 FilmG Awards.

In Spring 2024, NicArtair launched Sgioba Ealain, a kids' Gaelic language art club, currently held monthly at An Lòchran in Partick. NicArtair has, additionally, spent the last several years teaching art at Fèises and after school clubs across Scotland, as well as at the Girls Rock Glasgow Summer school. 

Her film We Don't (Go To Church) (2024) was featured in the Shrine, Museum, Holy Place show in Dundee, and her film Mair (2023) was featured at the Flos Collective IRIS Short Film Screening that same year in Glasgow.

In 2025, NicArtair's contributions to curator Holly Rennie Brown's The City, a queer, working class archival project, were on display at The Alasdair Gray Archive, in the form of an interview and exhibited lino cut print.

She also co-produced the group exhibition Gaelic Futurisms alongside Jesse Scott, Ruth Hamilton and Sigi Whittle in the Autumn of 2025, creating a large multi-media piece featuring elements of screen printing, embroidery, digital illustration, and crochet for the exhibition which ran at Strange Field from November 22nd-December 15th.

In addition to this, NicArtair produced the Gaelic Futurisms X Sgioba Ealain creative engagement programme, in which P1-P7 pupils from GME schools across the Greater Glasgow area created and later screen printed their own folklore, as well as attending workshops guest-facilitated by celebrated Gaelic actors, artists, poets, and musicians. Nine final pieces by the Sgioba Ealain cohort were exhibited alongside NicArtair's own work, prompted by the the question, "whose stories get to be remembered?"

NicArtair sporadically writes on a Substack account called Rabbit holes to Praxis, and is currently working on a large Gaelic-language creative publication project.

Full CV can be found here.