Nicola Green
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Early Life and Education
Nicola Green was born in London in 1972. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1998 with a Distinction in Master of Fine Arts under the supervision of minimalist Alan Johnston.Career
Nicola is inspired by the Northern European painters and Glasgow School (John Bellany, Ken Currie etc.) as well as the conceptual works of 'Young British Artist' friends in London such as Gavin Turk.A series of seven serigraphs, titled In Seven Days... A Portrait of a Presidential Campaign, has recently been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
and the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
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.
Her works have been purchased for corporate, public and private collections including those of Hannah Rothschild, Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...
, Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson
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and the late John Diamond, Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson
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, Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis
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and Emma Freud
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, Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), Simon Mayo
Simon Mayo
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, Angus Deayton
Angus Deayton
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, Anthony Fry, Charlotte Lloyd Webber.
Career Highlights:
2008 - 2010 In Seven Days..., A Portrait of a Presidential Campaign, launched at Harvard University (see "In Seven Days..." TIME review and ).
2007 & 2010 Nicola's series of work House Slave - Field Slave, was a collaboration with Anti-Slavery International, exhibited in 2007 at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and in 2010 at Bruce Castle Museum, London.
2006 & 2008 Nicola's work was in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, which subsequently toured U.K. museums.
2003 - 2004 Nicola's Portrait of the World,The Laughing Record toured the U.K and USA. In 2005 it was the b-side to Peter Kay's On The Way To Amarilloa No1 hit in the U.K.
Public Collections include:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
GlenHyrst Gallery of Brant, Canada.
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.
Paintings in Hospitals, UK.
Bruce Castle Museum, London.
Royal National College for the Blind, UK.
Wood Green Library, London.
Anti-Slavery International, London.
Royal Brompton Hospital, London.
Personal life
Green married Labour MP David LammyDavid Lammy
David Lindon Lammy is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000.Lammy has commented on Britain's history of slavery.-Early life and Education:...
in 2005. Her father is Professor Sir Malcolm Green, physician
Physician
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the former Commodore of Itchenor Sailing Club
Itchenor Sailing Club
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and the former head of the National Heart and Lung Institute.