Nicola Green
Nicola Green is a British portrait painter. Among her subjects have been the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, and Elle Macpherson.
In 2005, Green married David Lammy, a Labour Member of Parliament. They have three children.
Green has twice been among the exhibitors for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and in 2008.In 2010, Green created In Seven Days... a set of seven silk-screen prints depicting Barack Obama's presidential election campaign. Green was inspired by her mixed-heritage children to record these events for the future. 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. No other artist has got this close to a presidential campaign in history. In 2011 a set of In Seven Days...was donated to the Library of Congress; another set is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This series has also been exhibited at Harvard Law School, Walker Art Gallery and Said Business School.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. 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. The portaits included Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Baha’i, Jain, African Traditional, Confucian, Humanist, Shinto and indigenous leaders. Encounters was shown at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square.
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. Contributors to the book include Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Dr. Rowan Williams, Prof. David Ford OBE and Gabrielle Rifkind.
