About

Miriam Nabarro is a UK based, British/ Australian artist and scenographer. Her work is characterised by its politically and socially engaged focus, and often incorporates elements of participation and co production in creating art works of the highest critical value.

As theatre maker, she has extensive experience in creating designs for mid-scale, national and international touring productions in the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, as well as creating immersive and site specific environments, and working in collaborative processes to co-produce art works and performances.

Recent performance designs include award-nominated productions of Mojisola Adebayo’s Stars ( ICA/ Tamasha/ Uk tour) and High Times and Dirty Monsters (20 Stories High/ GraeAe/ Liverpool Everyman/ Leeds 23), as well as The Bone Sparrow (Pilot Theatre/ York Theatre Royal/ UK tour), The Little Prince, reworked by Inua Ellams for Fuel/ EIFF (curtailed by Covid-19), Buttercup (BBC Culture in Quarantine/ 20 Stories High/ Tigerlily), and award winning contributions to The Welcoming Party (MIF/ Theatrerites), I Told My Mum I Was Going on an RE Trip (BBC Performance Live) and ongoing collaborations with Clean Break. Other collaborators include Fuel, Clean Break, National Theatre, Talawa, Royal Court, Unicorn, Arcola, Headlong, Helen Chadwick Song Theatre and Theatrerites. Visual and participatory projects include Processions with Clean Break/ 1418 Now/ Artichoke and Digital Shadows with Art Refuge.

In 2023, together with Gemma Kerr, she co led At the Forest’s Edge, a large scale participatory placemaking sculptural project for the RSC in Stratford upon Avon.

As creative collaborator, since 2014, Miriam has been Artist in Residence in the Development Studies Department at SOAS, University of London; associate artist with award winning 20 Stories High Theatre; team member of Art Refuge UK’s projects in Northern France and a commissioned artist with Mothers Who Make.

Her visual work is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Library collection, the Arthur Boyd Collection, Bundanon, Australia and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.

Miriam has developed many participatory and co produced projects, performances, installations and workshops in the UK and internationally, including in Iran, Australia, Sudan, Syria, Georgia, Kosova, Eritrea and DRC supported by the British Council, the National Theatre among others, with communities and artists of all ages. She spent five years developing creative arts psychosocial humanitarian projects for children and communities affected by conflict, with War Child Netherlands in conjunction with IRC, SCF- UK, Care International and Unicef. She has an MA in English Literature (Edinburgh), an MSc in the Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS (London) and a distinction in MA Scenography at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, HK Utrecht and DAMU Prague.

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