- Nimzo-Indian

Nimzo-Indian work across a wide range of creative disciplines producing work that is both playful, coy and deliberately uses avoidance as strategy to evade easy definition against established predominant art categories. Both ‘making’ and placing the work within different contexts are deliberate strategies designed to disrupt and rupture current image and aesthetic dogmas. In this way the work has the potential to disrupt and neutralizes established discipline hierarchies, harking back to ‘dada’ and surrealist sensibilities and the potential for micro utopian and revolutionary art making.

Nimzo-Indian's work include painting, music and object making. They work under a range of other adopted personas including the art duo the Habsburg's, art noise band OHMMM, experimental music group the Nimzo-Indian

In May 2011 Nimzo-Indian formed the art noise band OHMMM as an intensive period of ‘making’ and improvised musical ensemble performance.

OHMMM members were allocated an instrument case of restrictive fixed size, and then individually designed and made sound objects to be performed within the case in accordance with a constitution/ manifesto of rules. OHMMM have performed at the London Short Film Festival, the Public, Axis arts c...

2006 - present Course Director/ Senior Lecturer Coventry University.2004 - 2006 Visiting Lecturer Foundation Art and Design - Thames Valley University.2003 - 2005 Visiting Lecturer Graphic Design - University of the West of England1999 - 2004Lecturer Media Production - City of Bath College/ Bath Spa UniversityEducation2007 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Professional Practice2000 - 2002 1st Class - BA (hons) Graphic Design UWE, Bristol1993 - 1995 HND Arts Administration Arts Institute Bournemouth

2014

- possession show 2 - Lanchester Gallery, Coventry

2013

– Balsall Heath Biennial
- The Open Project – Midland Arts Centre
– Possession Show – Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre, Bangkok – exhibition of Book A+B
– Exhibition of 3 video works by the arts collective the Habsburgs at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham.
– performance of Habsburg Script – How to Paint.

2012

– Instrumental – Does making things make us human - Aspex Gallery – exhibition of mini guitar
- The Function of Folk - Third International Illustration Research Symposium, Ethographic Museum, Krakow, Poland. Exhibiting objects- Mini Guitars, 7 inch turntables and video.
– 7 inch Turntable/ Mini Guitars featured on Booooooom/MTV – Made of Imagination project
– Zoom Quartet track Regress played on Tom Robinson - BBC 6 Introducing Mix tape
- OHMMM – Bruit De Fond – Experimental music night – Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
- OHMMM – Album release on iTunes
- OHMMM – performance at London Short Film Festival.
- Zoom Quartet – Album release – Oh No.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/oh-no/id481970654
- Habsburgs – How to Paint – Single Channel Video
http://youtu.be/rUKwmML8HCA

2011

- OHMMM – performance at ‘The Art of Noise’ Exhibition...