Nimmi was selected as one of 35 artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 with her painting titled "Friday Evening." One of her drawings, "Burnout," was featured in the Trinity Drawing Prize Exhibition 2019. She completed an MA in Painting in 2019 from UAL - Wimbledon College of the Arts. Recently, her painting has shifted towards expressing socio-political realities, aiming to raise awareness of human structures, as seen in works like "The Big Issue 1 and 2." However, she also creates Still Life paintings to lighten the mood and convey hope and peace. She identifies her art as metamodern rather than postmodern. She is British-Indian by nationality.
‘’While much of my work queries the socio-political milieu of the global village in which we live, I have always turned to painting to glean therapeutic benefits from the very process of painting itself. Still lifes provides me the opportunity to quieten my mind and turn my focus outward. Rather than being dark and somber and intense as are my political work (see for example ‘Stop the Boats 1 and 2’) my still life paintings portray sunshine and love and joy and mindful presence to Providence within my own life. They have been influenced by both Chris Gollon and Howard Hodgkins to whom I owe a debt of gratitude. The ability to remain hopeful in the presence of apocryphal disaster is what I see as Metamodern art.
I work with oils and acrylics on canvas, paper, and board. In my most recent Still Life ‘My Favourite Things 1’ I have experimented with mixing the two media in layers on the canvas. I deliberately broke the traditional norm of acrylic first then oil to create an interesting effect of rolling white oil paint mixed with water on top of a layer of acrylic. This is therefore a durational painting and will change over time.‘’
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