Jan
Nimmo is a Glasgow based artist and designer who studied at Glasgow
School of Art. Over the past 20 years she has worked on a wide range of creative projects - encompassing exhibitions, interior design, film-making, research into popular arts and facilitating for community groups - and has explored an equally wide variety of media, from painting and collage, through printmaking, to film making.
Jan's recent work is essentially people centred, and about the lives that people lead - from portraits of musicians and artisans to documenting picket lines in Ecuador; from transcriptions of banana workers' testimonies to working on community arts projects in Scotland. In all of this Jan sees her role as that of bridge-builder, building bridges between people and across cultures.
Jan has specialist working knowledge of popular Mexican art and Cuban traditional music. Since 2000 she has been involved in a art project entitled Green Gold
which documents the lives of banana workers in Costa Rica, Panama
and Ecuador. This project has been developed in collaboration with Banana Link in the UK and
with trade unions in Latin America. The Green Gold exhibition will be ready for showing in 2007.
Jan
Nimmo can offer an extensive range of creative skills and services. These include educational
talks and workshops, graphic, textile and interior design, illustration,
facilitating community arts projects, interpreting and translating Spanish.
