Jan Nimmo
Individual
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https://jannimmo.com/Jan works in a variety of media, using portrait, testimony and film to tell the stories of working people, from Latin American and African banana workers and Spanish cork cutters to Scottish coalminers. She has exhibited regularly since leaving Glasgow School of Art and her award-winning documentaries have been screened internationally.
Jan has produced a collection of 50 memorial portraits, Ayotzinapa: Mexico's Missing Students, highlighting forced disappearance, which have been exhibited across Latin America, the US and at the Scottish Parliament. This body of work has been embraced by the students' families and has become an integral part of the collective memory.
Jan is a fluent Spanish speaker and between 2000 -20208 spent a significant part of her life in the Sierra de Huelva in Andalusia. During this time she covered thousands of kilometres on her horse, Chaparro, to document the rural traditions and agriculture and to make portraits of the people she met.
Recently, Jan has been working with the University of Glasgow on the Colombia River Stories project for which she created a series of portraits of the Chocó River Guardians and coordinated the Rios Solidarios participatory art/solidarity project.
Jan has continued to work with communities in Scotland, building on the testimonies in her film, The Road To Drumleman, to facilitate an exhibition and ongoing community heritage project about coal mining in her native Kintyre.
Jan has designed and delivered a subsequent heritage project, Top Skippers' Choice: The Story of Campbeltown Shipyard, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first boat launched at Campbeltown Shipyard.
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