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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)​
Websitenicolagreen.com

Nicola Green (born 1972) is a British portrait painter. Among her subjects have been the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, and Elle Macpherson.[1]

In 2005, Green married David Lammy, a Labour Member of Parliament. They have three children.[1][2]

Green has twice been among the exhibitors for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and in 2008.[3][4]

In Seven Days

In 2010, Green created In Seven Days... a set of seven silk-screen prints depicting Barack Obama's 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 Democratic National Convention in Denver and Inauguration in Washington D.C. [6] No other artist has got this close to a presidential campaign in history.[7] In 2011 a set of In Seven Days...was donated to the Library of Congress; another set is 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

Between 2008 and 2018 Green was a witness to interfaith meetings around the world to create Encounters. She attended gatherings of religious leaders including The Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Ali Gomaa and Jonathan Sacks. [12] The resulting work Encounters, is made up of two bodies of work: a series of 12 life sized portraits made from Perspex and 30 mixed media portraits. [13]The portaits included Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Baha’i, Jain, African Traditional, Confucian, Humanist, Shinto and indigenous leaders. [14] Encounters was shown at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square.[15]

An accompanying book Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue was published by Brepols. Edited by Professor Aaron Rosen, it uses Nicola Green’s artwork to explore a variety of debates surrounding interfaith dialogue. [16] Contributors to the book include Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Dr. Rowan Williams, Prof. David Ford OBE and Gabrielle Rifkind. [17]

References

  1. ^ a b 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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  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. ^ Armstrong, Stephen (23 September 2018). "Faith: how talks between the Dalai Lama and the archbishop of Canterbury inspired artist Nicola Green's new exhibition". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  13. ^ Moorhead, Joanna (19 September 2018). "Faces of faith". The Tablet. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  14. ^ "Rabbi Lord Sacks 'honoured' to be featured in art exhibition with faith leaders". Jewish News. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  15. ^ [s.n.] (17 September 2018). Artist says faceless portraits of faith leaders is a comment on celebrity status. Shropshire Star. Accessed January 2020.
  16. ^ "Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue". Brepols publishers. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  17. ^ Allen Mosher, Lucinda (20 March 2019). "Book Review:The Art of Interfaith Dialogue". The Journal of Interreligious Studies. 26 (26): 87–90. Retrieved 11 June 2020.


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