PROFILE Career Highlights 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 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 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 has a studio at Bruce Castle Museum, London and a residency at John Jones, London.    2008 - 2010    In Seven Days..., A Portrait of a Presidential Campaign, launched at Harvard University (see Time.com and The Boston Globe).   2007 & 2010   Nicola's series of work 'House Slave  Field Slave', was a collaboration with Anti-Slavery International, exhibited in 2007 at the Dulwich Picture Gallery,  London and in 2010 at The Bruce Castle Museum, London.  A series of educational workshops with London schools coincided with the exhibition. 2006 & 2008   Nicola was a finalist in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, which subsequently toured U.K. museums. 2003 - 2004     Nicola's Laughing Portrait 'The 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 'On The Way To Amarillo'. Public Collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. The Courtauld Institute of Art, London GlenHyrst 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, UK Wood Green Library, London Anti-Slavery International, London Royal Brompton Hospital, London BBC Radio 4 Sound Archive, London Private Collections include:      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                                                                                  Solo Exhibitions include: 2010      Harvard University, Boston 2010      Bruce Castle Museum, London 2007      Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2003      Vinyl Factory, London 2003      Royal Brompton Hospital, London 2001      56 Viceroy Road, London 1999      28 Cork Street, London 1998      Pump House Gallery, London 1996      Dunedin Gallery, Edinburgh 1994      Cockburn¹s Art Gallery, Edinburgh Selected Group Exhibitions include: 2010      'Inspired by Soane', The Soane Museum, London 2010      'Touching Art Touching You', Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton 2010      East Wing Collection, The Courtauld Institute, London 2009      Royal College for the Blind, Permanent Collection, Hereford 2008      BlindArt, MOMA, Wales 2008      BP Portrait Award:                    National Portrait Gallery, London                    Wolverhampton Art Gallery                    Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum,Scotland                    Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales 2008     'A Sense of Space: The Blind Culture'                     McIntosh Gallery,                     University of Western London,                     Ontario Glenhyrst Gallery of Brant, Ontario 2008     'Touching Art Touching You', Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro 2008     'On Time', The Courtauld Institute, London 2007     Permanent Collection, Glenhyrst Gallery of Brant, Ontario, Canada 2007     'Boundless' Menier Chocolate Gallery & Southwark Council, London 2006-7  BP Portrait Award:                    National Portrait Gallery, London                    Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland                    Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2006     Blind Art U.S.A:                    National Public Library for the Blind,New York                    British Embassy, Washington D.C. 2006    'Shoes - The Agony & Ecstasy':                    Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead                    Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich                    Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford                    Tully House Museum, Carlisle 2005     Portraits 2005, Arndean Gallery, London 2005     Blind Art, Royal College of Arts, London 2004     'New Sound New York', The Kitchen, New York 2004     Winchester Festival of Art & the Mind, Winchester 2004     'Retrospective' 291 Gallery, London 2003     'A Laughing Portrait' :                    Cork Arts Festival, Ireland                    Port Eliot Lit Fest, Cornwall                    Royal Brompton Hospital, London                    Your Shout Awards, Winchester 2001     Group Show, 'B Contemporary', London 1999     Art '99 London, Davies and Tooth Gallery 1999     The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College, London and Bath 1998     City Art Fair, London, Davies and Tooth Gallery 1997     'Up' curated by Mel Gooding, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 1997     The New Generation, Compass Gallery, Glasgow