Nicola Green

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Nicola Green
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Green in 2025
Born1972 (age 53–54)
Spouse
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(m. 2005)​
Children3
Website nicolagreen.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] She is married to David Lammy, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2025 until 2026.

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Family and personal life

The daughter of Sir Malcolm Green and Julieta Preston (1943−2018), Green has Ashkenazi Jewish, Russian Orthodox and Anglican roots. She explored atheism and various other religions before ultimately returning to her Anglican faith. [2]

In 2005 she married the Labour politician David Lammy, who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor in the United Kingdom from September 2025 to July 2026. They have three children. [3]

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. [4] Green was inspired by her mixed-heritage children to record these events for the future. [5] 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. [5] [6] 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. [7] This series has also been exhibited at Harvard Law School, [8] Walker Art Gallery [9] and Said Business School. [10]

In October 2026, HENI Publishing released Nicola Green: In Seven Days..., [11] the first in-depth examination of her 2010 series In Seven Days.... The book includes previously unpublished sketches, drawings, and photographs from Green's time on Obama's 2008 Campaign. [12] Featuring contributions from Katherine Blood, Ben Rhodes, Dr. Sarah Lewis, Dr. Louise Bernard, Ekow Eshun, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dr. Flavia Figeri, Dr. Aaron Rosen, Suki Kim and Jana Degrott. [13]

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 Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Ali Gomaa, Jonathan Sacks and Justin Welby. [14] Encounters was a collaboration with Coexist House, the University of Cambridge and King's College London. [15] An accompanying book edited by Aaron Rosen, Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue, was published by Brepols. [16] [17]

Awards

Accolades for Green include twice being an exhibitor for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and 2008. [18] [19]

Other work

Green is a co-founder and trustee for Sophia Point, [20] 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. ↑ "Faith: how talks between the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop of Canterbury". The Times . 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  3. ↑ "Labour MP And Wife Adopt Baby Girl". The Voice. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Nicola Green: A Selection of Work". Wall Street International. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  5. 1 2 Brown, Mark. "Barack Obama exhibition offers 'deconstruction of hope'" . Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. ↑ Jenkins, Simon (13 February 2013). "And on the seventh day . . ". Church Times. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  7. ↑ [Office of Communications] (28 September 2011). Library Receives Gift of Artwork by Nicola Green (press-release). Library of Congress. Accessed January 2020.
  8. ↑ Leung, Vivian W. (16 November 2010). "Democracy Goes Green". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "A Witness to Power: ground-breaking art exhibition at Oxford Saïd". Said Business School. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "In Seven Days...by Nicola Green". Liverpool Museums. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  11. ↑ "I'm drowning' — Barack Obama's verdict on my election night picture of him". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
  12. ↑ White, Katie (16 September 2026). "New artist book, featuring behind-the-scenes photos of Obama's campaign, to be published this fall". Artsy. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
  13. ↑ Plugged, Art (26 August 2026). "Nicola Green's In Seven Days… Revisits Barack Obama's Historic 2008 Election". Art Plugged. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
  14. ↑ [s.n.] (17 September 2018). Artist says faceless portraits of faith leaders is a comment on celebrity status. Shropshire Star. Accessed January 2020.
  15. ↑ "Encounters Exhibition". St Martin-in-the-Fields. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  16. ↑ Aaron Rosen (editor). Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN   9782503580326.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ BP Portrait Award 2006 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
  19. ↑ BP Portrait Award 2008 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
  20. ↑ "SOPHIA POINT RAINFOREST PROJECT - Charity 1190870". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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