About : Nicola Green

Artist Biography

Nicola Green graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, in 1998 with a 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 founded and directed Cockburn's Gallery in Edinburgh which concentrated on showing the work of Scottish art graduates from 1993 to 1997.

Nicola is a Trustee of the charity Paintings in Hospitals and a Patron of the Prince's Drawing School Drawing Clubs and is on the board of Edinburgh College of Art's alumni council. She is based in London with a studio at Bruce Castle Museum, a residency at John Jones, and a studio in Finsbury Park.

Recent Solo Exhibitions:

2013 Soane Museum, London
2013 Flowers Gallery, London
2013 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2012 Stadium Suite, Olympic Park, London
2011 Library of Congress, Washington DC
2010 Harvard University, Boston
2010 Bruce Castle Museum, London
2007 Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Private Collectors:

Hannah Rothschild
Nigella Lawson
Elle Macpherson
Alex & Elinor Sainsbury
Richard Curtis & Emma Freud
The Right Honourable Tony and Cherie Blair
Nick Lloyd Webber
Lord and Lady Hollick
Lord and Lady Falconer
Gavin Turk
Isaac Julien
Sir George Martin CBE

Public Collections:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Glenhurst Gallery of Brant, Canada
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Paintings in Hospitals, UK
Bruce Castle Museum, London
Royal National College for the Blind, Hereford
Wood Green Library, London
Anti-Slavery International, London
Royal Brompton Hospital, London
BBC Radio 4 Sound Archive, London

Selected Group Exhibitions include:

2013: Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York
The London Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
The Loughborough Hotel, London

2012: BlindArt, Moorfield Hospital, London
Cultural Olympiad, Haringey, London
Pellafort Press, London

2011: BlindArt, Banbury Museum, Banbury

2010: Inspired by Soane, The Soane Museum, London
Touching Art Touching You, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton
East Wing Collection, The Courthauld Institute, London

2009: Permanent Collection, Royal College for the Blind, Hereford

2008: BlindArt, Museum of Modern Art, Wales
BP Portrait Award, exhibited at: National Portrait Gallery, London; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum; Aberystwyth Arts Centre
A Sense of Space: The Blind Culture, exhibited at: McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London; Ontario Glenhurst Gallery of Brant, Canada
Touching Art Touching You, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
On Time, The Courthauld Institute, London

2007: Permanent Collection, Ontario Glenhurst Gallery of Brant, Canada
Boundless, Menier Chocolate Gallery and Southward Council, London

2006: BP Portrait Award, exhibited at: National Portrait Gallery, London; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Blind Art USA, exhibited at: National Public Library for the Blind, New York; British Embassy, Washington D.C.
Shoes - The Agony & Ecstasy, exhibited at: Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich; Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford; Tully House Museum, Carlisle

2005: Portraits 2005, Arndean Gallery, London
BlindArt, Royal College of Arts, London

2004: New Sound New York, The Kitchen, New York
Winchester Festival of Art & the Mind, Winchester
Retrospective, 291 Gallery, London

2003: A Laughing Portrait, exhibited at: Cork Arts Festival, Ireland; Port Eliot Literary Festival, Cornwall; Royal Brompton Hospital, London; Your Shout Awards, Winchester

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