Nicola Green Explained

Nicola Green
Nationality:English
Alma Mater:Edinburgh College of Art
Children:3

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.

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. [1]

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.[2]

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

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

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. Encounters was a collaboration with Coexist House, the University of Cambridge and King's College London.[9] An accompanying book edited by Aaron Rosen, Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue, was published by Brepols.

Other work

Green is a co-founder and trustee for Sophia Point,[10] an education and conservation charity working in Guyana.

Notes and References

  1. News: Faith: how talks between the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop of Canterbury. 17 October 2014. The Times. 12 July 2024.
  2. News: Labour MP And Wife Adopt Baby Girl. 17 October 2014. The Voice. 9 April 2020.
  3. Web site: Nicola Green: A Selection of Work. 3 June 2020. Wall Street International.
  4. News: Brown. Mark. Barack Obama exhibition offers 'deconstruction of hope'. 8 June 2020.
  5. News: Jenkins. Simon. 13 February 2013. And on the seventh day . . .. Church Times. 8 June 2020.
  6. News: Leung. Vivian W.. 16 November 2010. Democracy Goes Green. The Harvard Crimson. 8 June 2020.
  7. Web site: A Witness to Power: ground-breaking art exhibition at Oxford Saïd. 8 June 2020. Said Business School.
  8. Web site: In Seven Days...by Nicola Green. 8 June 2020. Liverpool Museums.
  9. Web site: Encounters Exhibition . 2024-01-16 . St Martin-in-the-Fields . en.
  10. Web site: SOPHIA POINT RAINFOREST PROJECT - Charity 1190870 . 2022-12-20 . register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk . en-GB.