Nicola Green

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

Nicola Green
Self-portrait
Born1972 (age 48–49)
NationalityEnglish
Alma materEdinburgh College of Art
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2005)​
Websitenicolagreen.com

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, Baháʼí, 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. 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. 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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