Nicola Green

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Nicola Green
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Self-portrait
Born1972 (age 51–52)
NationalityEnglish
Alma mater Edinburgh College of Art
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]

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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

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. [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

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

Green is a co-founder and trustee for Sophia Point, [17] an education and conservation charity working in Guyana.

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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. ↑ BP Portrait Award 2006 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
  5. ↑ BP Portrait Award 2008 - Exhibitors. London: National Portrait Gallery. Accessed March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Nicola Green: A Selection of Work". Wall Street International. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  7. 1 2 Brown, Mark. "Barack Obama exhibition offers 'deconstruction of hope'" . Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  8. ↑ Jenkins, Simon (13 February 2013). "And on the seventh day . . ". Church Times. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  9. ↑ [Office of Communications] (28 September 2011). Library Receives Gift of Artwork by Nicola Green (press-release). Library of Congress. Accessed January 2020.
  10. ↑ Leung, Vivian W. (16 November 2010). "Democracy Goes Green". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  11. ↑ "A Witness to Power: ground-breaking art exhibition at Oxford Saïd". Said Business School. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  12. ↑ "In Seven Days...by Nicola Green". Liverpool Museums. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  13. ↑ [s.n.] (17 September 2018). Artist says faceless portraits of faith leaders is a comment on celebrity status. Shropshire Star. Accessed January 2020.
  14. ↑ "Encounters Exhibition". St Martin-in-the-Fields. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  15. ↑ Aaron Rosen (editor). Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN   9782503580326.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ "SOPHIA POINT RAINFOREST PROJECT - Charity 1190870". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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