Ebrahim Nazier is a set designer, installation artist, musician, filmmaker and seamster who makes spaces that enhance the places they inhabit. Growing up in a South Africa in a creative household, Ebrahim became accustomed to the natural state of spaces, objects and materials. He nurtures this awareness in his work as a designer and maker, treading lightly in the environments in which he creates his work.
Ebrahim has worked as a designer and artist with Friction Arts, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The RSC, The Legacy Centre, Fox Rocha, BOA Stage and Screen, Ad Infinitum, Natalie Mason, Lynnebec and Artists On The Edge. From 2015-2021, he held posts as Head of Technical Design and Head of Workshops at the Birmingham REP Theatre where he designed technical structures for a multitude of productions including One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, Nativity! The Musical and What Shadows. He also designed sets for REP productions GrimeBoy, Scenes from a Brummie Iliad, Sky Comedy Rep and Foundry Festival.
As an architectural technologist, Ebrahim spent a decade working in commercial, industrial and residential architecture in Cape Town, London and Birmingham. His expertise in spatial design and construction remains with him across disciplines in his theatre and installation work.