A designer & community artist based in Manchester, Nerissa designs and makes stuff. She also helps others to design and make stuff.
I have designed youth & community projects for Aqueous Humour, Creative Partnerships, Rochdale Council, M6 Theatre Company, Activ8, Bury Met, Burnley Youth Theatre, Box of Frogs and TIPP. I create projects in various visual art forms but my specialism is in working alongside other practitioners particularly in performance-based disciplines to bring a visual element to a project.
For a full list of projects please download my Community & Education CV.
I worked with Bury Met’s Theatre Arts & Performance Project to create the props & costumes for their spy project for Garden of Delights directed/choreographed by Clare Fildes. They created strolling work either on there own or in small groups as well as a static movement piece which involved all of them.
Directed by Dinos Aristidou
Ziggurat was a devised project on the theme of communication based on the story of the Tower of Babel. Over 100 children from schools around Manchester worked with artists from the Lowry’s partner companies to create the piece.
Summer 2002 proved very busy in Manchester with events for the Jubilee and Commonwealth Games. The Jubilee parade theme was Feast of Delights. Bury’s link country was Tuvalu, a set of pacific islands slowly sinking into the sea.
Performed at Bolton Octagon, Studio & Mainhouse
Directed by Pete Smith
I was involved in the devising process of this health and education project. I worked closely with the young people as they created their characters which made designing the costume very straightforward. The set had to be suitable for both spaces at the Octagon.