Virginia Nimarkoh


Virginia Nimarkoh is a British artist and activist, based in London. She graduated with a PhD in Fine Art from Goldsmith College London. 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 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. Her photographic series Urban Utopias is concerned with spaces in South East London, depicting allotments, city farms and parks.
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 Hand Eye Projects. The international selection of artists included Simryn Gill, Mandy Lee Jandrell, Virginia Nimarkoh and David Spero. The research project commissioned new writing by Anthony Iles, Kate Soper, John Wood, and a preface by Paul Halliday. The book Edge of a Dream was published in 2011 by Affram Books.
In 2019, Nimarkoh collaborated with Fan Sissoko 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.

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