Virginia Nimarkoh facts for kids

Virginia Agyeiwah Nimarkoh (born in January 1967) is a British artist and activist who lives in London. She was born in London and studied at Goldsmiths College London from 1986 to 1989. She earned a special art degree focusing on both art theory and practice.

Virginia Nimarkoh often uses photography in her art. She also helps organize art shows for other artists. Outside of her art, she works to improve communities and help the environment in London. Today, she mostly works with food. She runs a business that sells raw food and a social project that helps people get enough food.

Her Art and Projects

Virginia Nimarkoh is interested in how people understand who they are, especially when thinking about their past. She explores how we record our lives, how we choose to remember things, and how our memories might be different from what really happened.

Early Works and Photo Series

In 1990, some of Virginia Nimarkoh's photo artworks were chosen for an important show called East Country Yard Show. This exhibition was put together by artists Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas.

In 1993, she created The Phone Box: Art in Telephone Boxes. This project involved putting original artworks inside telephone boxes. She also made an artist's book called Postcard, which was made of 144 color postcards that formed one big picture.

Her photo series Urban Utopias started in 2005 and is still ongoing. This series shows different green spaces in South East London, like community gardens (allotments), city farms, and parks.

Curating and Collaborations

In 2008, Virginia Nimarkoh organized a special project called Edge of a Dream: Utopia, Landscape & Contemporary Photography. This project looked at how artists show perfect or ideal places in nature through photography, especially in today's world. It received support from the Arts & Humanities Research Council and several universities. The project included artists from different countries, like Simryn Gill and Mandy Lee Jandrell. A book about the project, also called Edge of a Dream, was published in 2011.

In 2019, Virginia Nimarkoh worked with Fan Sissoko on a short film called We The People. This film was made with the Advocacy Academy, which is the UK's first campus for young activists. The film had special music by Dubmorphology and was asked for by the Museum of London.

Art Shows

Virginia Nimarkoh's art has been shown in many places.

Solo Shows

• 2011: Urban Utopias, Kunstraum Lakeside, Germany.

Group Shows

• 1991: Four x 4, a show with sixteen artists in four different galleries. This included the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston and the Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
• 1994: Mise en Scene, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
• 1995: Care and Control, at Hackney Hospital in London, where she showed work with Donald Rodney.
• 1995: Exotic Excursions, at Iniva in London, with several other artists.

See also

In Spanish: Virginia Nimarkoh para niños