Nicola Green and International Curators Forum (ICF) in partnership with University of the Arts London (UAL) with the support of Arts Council England, present Diaspora Platform and Beyond the Frame, designed to deliver 22 months of mentoring and professional development by twenty selected mentors. Twenty emerging British artists and curators from racially and culturally diverse backgrounds will be selected for involvement. During this time the artists will produce works that will be showcased in the Diaspora Platform exhibition at the Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina during the time of the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Curated by ICF Director, David A. Bailey it will be the first of its kind. The provisional launch events in Venice span from Tuesday the 9th May to Thursday 13th May 2017.
Partners for Beyond the Frame include Iniva, New Art Exchange and Liverpool Biennial. Diaspora Platform is co - directed by Mark Crawley (UAL), David A. Bailey ( ICF), Nicola Green and Peter Clayton.
The launch of the two initiatives took place on the 9th November 2016 at UAL’s Chelsea College of Arts, during which the selected artists and curators were officially announced.
The Diaspora Platform exhibition will be running from 13th May – 26th November 2017 at Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, Venice, Italy.
From 6 October – 3 January 2020 Nicola Green’s work will be exhibited in the 252nd annual Summer Exhibition, 2020, at the Royal Academy, London.
The edition of 15 prints has completely sold out, but remaining prints in the series are available to purchase here.
Spires, Landscape Before Golden 2017 is one of four silkscreen print art works depicting the landscape of the Rocky Mountains, based on photographs taken by Nicola Green in 2000. In recording these landscapes, the artist contemplates our desire to still and control. These works offer a space for reflection, and a means to reconsider our relationship with nature and the natural.