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.
1999 Hunting Art Prize finalist.
2003-2004 Nicola's 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 'On 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.
2008 - 2010 In Seven Days… Portrait of a Presidential Campaign
Collectors of her work include museums in the U.K and Canada, Hannah Rothschild, Elle Macpherson & Tony and Cherie Blair.
Nicola is a Trustee of the charity Paintings in Hospitals and a Patron of the Prince's Drawing School Drawing Clubs.
She has a studio at Bruce Castle Museum, London.



Public Collections Include:

The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
GlenHyrst Gallery of Brant, Canada
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
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
Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim)
Gavin Turk                                                                 
Isaac Julien
Sir George Martin CBE 
                                                                             
Solo Exhibitions Include:
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