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Nicola Green (born 1972) is a British portrait painter, social historian, and public speaker. Among her subjects have been the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, and Princess Diana.[1]

Nicola Green
Self-portrait
Born	1972 (age 49–50)
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Edinburgh College of Art
Spouse	David Lammy ​ (m. 2005)​
Website	nicolagreen.com

Education

Green graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a Bachelor of Arts in Drawing and Painting in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1998.[2]

Work

Green has participated in selected group and solo exhibitions since 2003. [2] She has twice been among the exhibitors for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and 2008. [3][4]

Green's work is in many public collections, including The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and The Library of Congress.[2]

Projects

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.[5] Regarding her inspiration for the work, Green stated, "I started thinking, as a white mother, about my children and what the world would look like for them and how their experience of the world would be different from mine. I was thinking of who the role models for them would be outside of popular culture and started thinking of what this man, who looks like my boys, would mean for them." [6] 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.[6][7] In 2011 a set of In Seven Days... was donated to the Library of Congress; another set is at 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

Encounters, a series of fifty portraits of religious leaders 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 portrayed were the Pope, the Dalai Lama, Ali Gomaa, Jonathan Sacks, and Justin Welby.[12] An accompanying book edited by Aaron Rosen, Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue, was published by Brepols.[13][14]

The Princess

Green was commissioned to create a promotional image for a documentary about Princess Diana, titled The Princess. The film was released in 2022. [15][16]

Personal life

In 2005, Green married David Lammy, a Labour Member of Parliament. They have three children.[17]

References

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