House Slave - Field Slave: Nicola Green

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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

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

House Slave - Field Slave

Nicola Green's recently completed painting, made in collaboration with Anti-Slavery International, celebrates Black History Month and commemorates the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. Called "House Slave - Field Slave" it will soon go to the newly opened International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. Meanwhile the picture is on show in the Sackler Centre for Arts Education at The Dulwhich Picture Gallery.

"The reason Nicola Green has painted feet and not faces in this particular picture is that slaves have very little sense of their own identity; slaves don't even own their bodies...although you don't see the faces, we all know what these people look like."
Ian Dejardin, director of The Dulwich Picture Gallery

The picture reflects the fact that even though the slave trade was abolished 200 years ago, there are 12 million people in the world today who are still enslaved.

The painting is strikingly made of a gold leaf background to evoke the iconography of saints and martyrs of the past. As Ian Dejardin stresses, "the gold's sheer value, and its rich connotations, project onto these faceless slaves a universal value, in defiance of today's global racism and prejudices."

As part of Dulwich's Education Programme, Nicola has been teaching children from Kingsdale Secondary School, and Southwark's Gifted and Talented pupils, at The Dulwich Picture Gallery.

David Lammy, Nicola Green's husband and Minister for Skills in the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said, "This project epitomises the social action through art philosophy which has been the driving force of the Education Department at Dulwich Picture Gallery since it was started by Gillian Wolfe, 24 years ago."

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