Nicola Green
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Nicola Green | |
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 Self-portrait | |
| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh College of Art |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | nicolagreen |
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]
According to The Times, she has a diverse heritage that includes Ashkenazi Jewish, Russian Orthodox, and Anglican roots. She explored atheism and various other religions before ultimately returning to her Anglican faith. [2]
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 (2024) the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. They have three children.[3]
Accolades for Green include twice being an exhibitor for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and 2008.[4][5]
Artwork and exhibitions
[edit]In Seven Days
[edit]In 2010, Green created In Seven Days... a set of seven silk-screen prints depicting Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election campaign.[6] Green was inspired by her mixed-heritage children to record these events for the future.[7] 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.[7][8] 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.[9] This series has also been exhibited at Harvard Law School,[10] Walker Art Gallery[11] and Said Business School.[12]
Encounters
[edit]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.[13] Encounters was a collaboration with Coexist House, the University of Cambridge and King's College London.[14] An accompanying book edited by Aaron Rosen, Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue, was published by Brepols.[15][16]
Other work
[edit]Green is a co-founder and trustee for Sophia Point,[17] an education and conservation charity working in Guyana.
References
[edit]- ^ Adam Jacques (29 December 2013). How we met: Nicola Green & Elle Macpherson. London: The Independent. Accessed March 2018.
- ^ "Faith: how talks between the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop of Canterbury". The Times. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ "Labour MP And Wife Adopt Baby Girl". The Voice. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ BP Portrait Award 2006 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
- ^ BP Portrait Award 2008 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
- ^ "Nicola Green: A Selection of Work". Wall Street International. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ a b Brown, Mark. "Barack Obama exhibition offers 'deconstruction of hope'". Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ Jenkins, Simon (13 February 2013). "And on the seventh day . . ". Church Times. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ [Office of Communications] (28 September 2011). Library Receives Gift of Artwork by Nicola Green (press-release). Library of Congress. Accessed January 2020.
- ^ Leung, Vivian W. (16 November 2010). "Democracy Goes Green". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ "A Witness to Power: ground-breaking art exhibition at Oxford Saïd". Said Business School. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ "In Seven Days...by Nicola Green". Liverpool Museums. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ [s.n.] (17 September 2018). Artist says faceless portraits of faith leaders is a comment on celebrity status. Shropshire Star. Accessed January 2020.
- ^ "Encounters Exhibition". St Martin-in-the-Fields. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ Aaron Rosen (editor). Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN 9782503580326.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "SOPHIA POINT RAINFOREST PROJECT - Charity 1190870". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- 20th-century British painters
- 21st-century British painters
- English people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
- British portrait painters
- 21st-century British women painters
- Spouses of British politicians
- 20th-century British women artists
- 20th-century British women painters