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BP Portrait Award 2008

Nicola Green's portrait of Mark Pritchard has been selected for the 2008 BP Portrait Award showing from 12 June to 14 September 2008 in the Wolfson Gallery at the National Gallery in London.

The East Wing Collection at The Courtauld

The portrait of the Late Joshua Compston is currently on view in the East Wing Collection at the Courtaul Institute of Art. Joshua Compston was at the Courtauld himself and set up the East Wing Collection, the first contemporary art exhibit at the Courtauld. The portrait is a tribute to him and his work.

There are on-going events and performances at the East Wing Collection. Details can be found on www.eastwing.co.uk .

Blind Art Exhibition - New York October 2006

Permanent Collection - Touring Exhibition

Nicola Green's No 1 Hit - The Laughing Record is part of The Blind Art Exhibition touring the U.S in 2006

Podcasts

* Click here to listen to Martha Kearney interviewing Nicola Green on Woman's Hour May 2003
* Click here to listen to Claudia Hammond interviewing Nicola Green on Emotional Rollercoaster March 2004

House Slave - Field Slave

Touring exhibition "House Slave - Field Slave" October 2007 Dulwich Picture Gallery - exhibition and workshops in the Sackler Centre for Arts Education

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Nicola Green is an artist that uses portraiture as a means to describe complex human issues through a powerful yet simple and familiar language.

A full time painter since the early 1990's, Green is a portrait painter with a difference.

Nicola Green’s portraits capture her subjects by finding the one special aspect that sums up the whole person, be it their stance, the tilt of their chin or the way they hold their hands. It might even be a favourite object such as shoes or a childhood toy.

By focusing on this one aspect and imbuing it with the greatest importance, Nicola succeeds in portraying the whole person. Her particular skill is in finding, defining and then capturing that aspect, successfully conveying the whole through it.

While Nicola's main focus is painted portraits, she has also made multimedia portraits using film, photography and sound. The Laughing Record is a portrait of many different people through the sound of their laughter.

The Laughing Record stayed at No.1 for seven weeks as the B side of the 2005 Comic Relief single, "On The Way To Amarillo".

Nicola's more recent project involves bringing attention to the on-going existence of slavery, even though the slave trade was abolished 200 years ago. Her painting "House Slave - Field Slave" was exhibited at The Dulwich Picture Gallery and will travel to Liverpool to The International Slavery Museum.

The Late Joshua Compston 76cm x 184cm oil on board

House Slave - Field Slave
oil and gold leaf on canvas 2007 3 x 150 cm x 212 cm