Nicola Green

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Nicola Green
Nicola Green 4 HR.jpg
Self-portrait
Born1972 (age 50–51)
NationalityEnglish
Alma materEdinburgh College of Art
Spouse
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(m. 2005)​
Websitenicolagreen.com

Nicola Green (born 1972) is a British portrait painter, social historian, and public speaker. Among her subjects have been the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, and Princess Diana.[1]

Education

Green graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a Bachelor of Arts in Drawing and Painting in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1998.[2]

Work

Green has participated in selected group and solo exhibitions since 2003. [2] She has twice been among the exhibitors for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and 2008. [3][4]

Green's work is in many public collections, including The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and The Library of Congress.[2]

Projects

In Seven Days...

In 2010, Green created In Seven Days... a set of seven silk-screen prints depicting Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election campaign.[5] Regarding her inspiration for the work, Green stated, "I started thinking, as a white mother, about my children and what the world would look like for them and how their experience of the world would be different from mine. I was thinking of who the role models for them would be outside of popular culture and started thinking of what this man, who looks like my boys, would mean for them." [6] She gained access to Obama’s campaign, making six trips to events, such as his nomination at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver and Inauguration in Washington D.C.[6][7] In 2011 a set of In Seven Days... was donated to the Library of Congress; another set is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[8] This series has also been exhibited at Harvard Law School,[9] Walker Art Gallery,[10] and Said Business School.[11]

Encounters

Encounters, a series of fifty portraits of religious leaders with their faces and hands painted out, was shown at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square in 2018. Among those portrayed were the Pope, the Dalai Lama, Ali Gomaa, Jonathan Sacks, and Justin Welby.[12] An accompanying book edited by Aaron Rosen, Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue, was published by Brepols.[13][14]

The Princess

Green was commissioned to create a promotional image for a documentary about Princess Diana, titled The Princess. The film was released in 2022. [15][16]

Personal life

In 2005, Green married David Lammy, a Labour Member of Parliament. They have three children.[17]

References

  1. ^ Adam Jacques (29 December 2013). How we met: Nicola Green & Elle Macpherson. London: The Independent. Accessed March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "About". Nicola Green. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  3. ^ BP Portrait Award 2006 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
  4. ^ BP Portrait Award 2008 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
  5. ^ "Nicola Green: A Selection of Work". Wall Street International. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  6. ^ a b Brown, Mark. "Barack Obama exhibition offers 'deconstruction of hope'". Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  7. ^ Jenkins, Simon (13 February 2013). "And on the seventh day . . ". Church Times. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  8. ^ [Office of Communications] (28 September 2011). Library Receives Gift of Artwork by Nicola Green (press-release). Library of Congress. Accessed January 2020.
  9. ^ Leung, Vivian W. (16 November 2010). "Democracy Goes Green". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  10. ^ "A Witness to Power: ground-breaking art exhibition at Oxford Saïd". Said Business School. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  11. ^ "In Seven Days...by Nicola Green". Liverpool Museums. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  12. ^ [s.n.] (17 September 2018). Artist says faceless portraits of faith leaders is a comment on celebrity status. Shropshire Star. Accessed January 2020.
  13. ^ Aaron Rosen (editor). Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN 9782503580326.
  14. ^ Lucinda Allen Mosher (20 March 2019). Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue, edited by Aaron Rosen (book review). The Journal of Interreligious Studies. 26 (26): 87–90.
  15. ^ "The Princess". Nicola Green. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  16. ^ "The Princess". IMDB. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  17. ^ "Labour MP And Wife Adopt Baby Girl". The Voice. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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