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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 now at the Aberdeen Art Gallery from 29 November 2008 to 24 January 2009 following excellent reviews and high attendance figures from its showing at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London. After this point the exhibition will tour to Aberystwyth Arts Center from 4 February to 14 March 2009.

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 Courtauld 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

The Laughing Booth

In order to make The Laughing Record, I began a year-long mission to record the sounds of all sorts of people laughing in all kinds of situations.

Laughter is very elusive. It's one thing recording friends, but how to capture the laughter of strangers? Laughing is intimate and revealing, and striding up to commuters and demanding a laugh didn't always work. So, with the memory of laughing at fairgrounds and secret giggling under the covers of a home-made den as a child, I created the Laughing Booth.

It is a brightly coloured, portable structure with bunting in seaside stripes on the outside and bright yellow fabric on the inside. It provides a bright, childlike place for people to lose self-conciousness and laugh.
People are surprisingly ready to laugh if they come across a Laughing Booth.

The Laughing Booth has toured all over the UK including events such as:

The Millennium 'Your Shout' Awards, Winchester 2003
Anti War March, Hyde Park 2003
The Royal Brompton Hospital, London 2003
Port Eliot Lit Fest, Cornwall 2003
Cork Arts Festival, Ireland 2003
The Kitchen, New York 2004

All kinds of stories have unfolded in and around the Laughing Booth and all kinds of people have visited it including comedians, politicians and models - even Margaret Thatcher tripped over it.

"In Hyde Park itself, a long line of purple silk lay on the grass, facing Mecca, and Muslims took off their shoes to pray. Beside it, artist Nicola Green had set up her Laughing Booth, and was encouraging people in to, obviously, start laughing, on their own, and be recorded; it was, she says, the most disarming of all weapons. The sky above the nearby stage grew dark, and the park grew even more astonishingly full." The Observer

Copyright © 2003 Nicola Green

Policeman laughing inside The Laughing Booth

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