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Nicola Green
Self-portrait
Born1972 (age 51–52)
NationalityEnglish
Alma materEdinburgh College of Art
Spouse
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(m. 2005)​
Children3
Websitenicolagreen.com

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

In 2005, Green married the Labour politician David Lammy, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since the 2000 Tottenham by-election, and is currently (2023) the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs. They have three children.[2]

Accolades for Green include twice being an exhibitor for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and 2008.[3][4]

Artwork and exhibitions

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] Green was inspired by her mixed-heritage children to record these events for the future.[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 was placed in 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 all 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 represented were the Pope, the Dalai Lama, Ali Gomaa, Jonathan Sacks and Justin Welby.[12] Encounters was a collaboration with Coexist House, the University of Cambridge and King's College London.[13] An accompanying book edited by Aaron Rosen, Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue, was published by Brepols.[14][15]

Other work

Green is a co-founder and trustee for Sophia Point,[16] an education and conservation charity working in Guyana.

References

  1. ^ Adam Jacques (29 December 2013). How we met: Nicola Green & Elle Macpherson. London: The Independent. Accessed March 2018.
  2. ^ "Labour MP And Wife Adopt Baby Girl". The Voice. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  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. ^ "Encounters Exhibition". St Martin-in-the-Fields. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  14. ^ Aaron Rosen (editor). Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN 9782503580326.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "SOPHIA POINT RAINFOREST PROJECT - Charity 1190870". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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