Isabel
Isabel founded Nemo Arts, a charity that supports people recovering from poor mental health to participate in visual art, drama, and music workshops.
Name: Isabel McCue
Years: 1990s – Present
Isabel founded Nemo Arts, a charity that supports people recovering from poor mental health to participate in visual art, drama, and music workshops.
She shares what it was like to set up an arts organisation from the ground up.
Excerpts:
“It was a total dump. There was nothing, no heating, no phone, no kitchen as such – there was a sink but that was it, and a concrete floor.”
“Nemo is the Latin meaning no one. And that’s the way all the people we were working with at the beginning… You go to the doctor, they don’t know you, you go to somebody else, what’s your name, you’ve to tell your story over and over and over.“