Artist's Statement
Nicola¹s passion as an artist is to tell human stories. Her goal is to understand and reveal without judgement the essence of these stories. In her portraits Nicola explores and develops a number of narratives ranging from a personal family one through to wider social issues. This is then distilled into a simplified image or series of images.
Nicola uses photography, drawing, painting and printmaking as well as developing new techniques. Although the process and execution of her work are painstaking and integral to her practice, the research, concept and narrative are equally important.
Career Highlights
Nicola Green graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, in 1998 with the Highest Distinction in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) following a First Class Honours Degree in Drawing and Painting (BA), winning the Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship in 1997 and 1998 and a Department for Education Scholarship in 1996.
Nicola was taught by the Minimalist artist Alan Johnston and has been strongly influenced by the Scottish school of Northern European figurative painters that she met in Edinburgh (John Bellany, Ken Currie etc) as well as by the conceptual works of 'Young British Artist' friends in
London such as Gavin Turk. Nicola founded and directed Cockburn¹s Gallery in Edinburgh which concentrated on showing the work of Scottish art graduates from 1993 to 1997. 1999 Hunting Art Prize finalist. 2003-2004 Nicola¹s Laughing Portrait "Laughing Record' toured the U.K and USA. In 2005 it was a No1 hit in the U.K., the B-side to Peter Kay's 'The Way To Amarillo'.
2006 & 2008 Nicola was a finalist in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery London, which subsequently toured U.K. museums. 2007 Nicola's series of work 'House Slave Field Slave', in collaboration with Anti-Slavery International, was exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and inspired a series of education workshops with South London schools. 2010 Finalizing an exhibition in Bruce Castle Museum, London, as part of UK Black History Month.
Collectors of her work include museums in the U.K and Canada, Hannah Rothschild, Elle Macpherson & Tony and Cherie Blair.
Nicola is a Patron of the Prince of Wales' Drawing School Drawing Clubs and a Trustee of the charity Paintings in Hospitals.
She has a studio at Bruce Castle Museum, London.
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