Virginia Nimarkoh
Virginia Agyeiwah Nimarkoh (born January 1967)[1] is a British artist and activist, based in London.[2] Nimarkoh was born in London, and studied at Goldsmiths College London from 1986 to 1989,[2] graduating with a PhD in Fine Art (Theory & Practice).[3] Her practice combines mostly photographic and curatorial projects. She also works in community development and environmental regeneration initiatives across London. She currently works mainly with food, running a raw food business[4] and food insecurity social enterprise in London.
Work[]
A series of Nimarkoh's photo-installations was selected in 1990 by Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas for inclusion in their warehouse exhibition East Country Yard Show.
In 1993, Nimarkoh produced The Phone Box: Art in Telephone Boxes (London: Virginia Nimarkoh/Bookworks, 1993), an edition of 300 with original artists works as well as Postcard, an artist's book consisting of 144 colour postcards forming one composite image, (London: BookWorks, 1993).
Her photographic series Urban Utopias (2005–ongoing) is concerned with spaces in South East London, depicting allotments, city farms and parks.[5]
In 2008, Nimarkoh curated the research project Edge of a Dream: Utopia, Landscape & Contemporary Photography, which explored utopian depictions of landscape within recent art photography in the context of global capitalism, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, with support from Camberwell College of Arts, Goldsmiths University of London and . The international selection of artists included Simryn Gill (AUS), (SA/UK), Virginia Nimarkoh (UK) and David Spero (UK). The research project commissioned new writing by Anthony Iles (Mute magazine), Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University), John Wood (Goldsmiths), and a preface by (Goldsmiths). The book Edge of a Dream was published in 2011 by Affram Books.
In 2019, Nimarkoh collaborated with on the short film We The People, in partnership with the Advocacy Academy, the UK's first youth activist campus, based in Brixton. The original soundtrack is by Dubmorphology. The project was commissioned by Museum of London.
Exhibitions[]
Solo Exhibitions[]
- Urban Utopias (2011) Kunstraum Lakeside, Germany.[6]
Group Exhibitions[]
- Four x 4 (1991) Installations by Sixteen Artists in Four Gallery Spaces. Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, with Shaheen Merali, Houria Niati, , Lesley Sanderson; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton with , Val Brown, Stephen Forde, Rita Keegan; The City Gallery, Leicester with , Richard Hylton, Tony Phillips, ; Arnolfini, Bristol with , Alistair Raphael, and , Curated by Eddie Chambers[7]
- Mise en Scene (1994) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.[8] [9]
- Care and Control (1995) Hackney Hospital, London, with Donald Rodney[10][11]
- Exotic Excursions (1995) Iniva, London with , , , , Kate Smith and .[12]
References[]
- ^ "Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Summers, Frances (2002). "Nimarkoh, Virginia". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ Virginia Nimarkoh https://www.virginianimarkoh.net. Retrieved 22 March 2021. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ "goodness raw chocolate & preserves". goodness raw chocolate & preserves. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ Adelaide Bannerman, Open Frequency. October 2008
- ^ "Virginia Nimarkoh - Urban Utopias - Kunstraum Lakeside". Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ Anderson, Emma. "Four from Four x 4". Women's Art Magazine. 44 January-February 1992: 12–13.
- ^ Deepwell, Katy. "Uncanny Resemblances: the Restaging of the mise en scene". Women's Art Magazine. no.62, (January-February 1995): 17–19.
- ^ Irvine, Jaki. "Mise en Scene". Third Text. no.30 (Spring 1995): 101–106.
- ^ Sladen, Mark. "Care and Control". Art Monthly. no. 189 September 1995: 13–15.
- ^ Keen, Melanie; Ward, Elizabeth (1996). Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art. London: Institute of International Visual Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design. ISBN 1899846-06-9.
- ^ "Exotic Excursions". Iniva. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
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