Dody Nash is a visual designer and artist specialising in music-based performance and installation projects in the field of dance, opera, music and visual arts, often involving technical innovation. She explores relationships between sound, image, word and movement, underpinned by an ability to realise musical form as visual experience.

She is the creator of the Listening Shell. This is a unique project which had its source in a 2004 commission by the South Bank Centre. The shell has been exhibited at the Royal Festival Hall, 100% Design and V&A Museum, as well in Paris and in the international design press. Dody has worked with designers, engineers and composers through several stages of this project, notably with Julian Brown RDI on the design of the shell; Sound Intermedia, Listen Hear Sound Projects and LeadtoWill on applications and content, and DuPont Corian on the manufacture and exhibiting. Other work in this series of designs investigating new material technology with DuPont include Frame and Score (Gallery for DuPont, 100% Design) and Media Tables 1 2 3 (Berio Lounge). These are currently housed at the London Knowledge Lab and in the Fusion Glass showrooms, and have featured on C4s Grand Designs.

Clients include English National Opera, Opera North, the Opera Group, Scottish Opera, South Bank Centre, DuPont Corian, Rambert Dance Company, SharpWire, London Sinfonietta, Endymion Ensemble, Royal Opera House.

Her professional training was as an opera designer, working for many years as the ENO studio assistant to artists such as Tom Phillips, Michael Levine and Hildegard Bechtler; she has created intricate costumes for Rambert Dance Company and The Opera Group in collaboration with fabric dyer Penny Hadrill. 2008 sees her return to period costume design for Scottish Opera. Many projects are initiated through collaborations with colleagues from different fields. She has a particular love for contemporary dance and classical ballet, having worked several times with choreographers Clare Whistler and Maresa von Stockert, and consults on the developmental stages of performance projects, e.g. for SharpWire and Tilted Productions.

In 2004 she created a major public installation, the Berio Lounge, at the Royal Festival Hall, exploring themes of classicism, quotation and experimentation in the music of Luciano Berio and, more broadly, Italian culture. She brought together several different worlds - presenting projects made by children; co-commissioning creative responses from artists, designers, composers, filmmakers and working, with design manufacture companies such as Unifor, Cabas, Montina and Ryalux to develop new or bespoke products. She invited Maresa von Stockert to create a solo work in response to a public seating bank resembling a giant polo mint, which later found a home in the foyer at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Dody was 2003 Visiting Lecturer for MA Perfomance at Queen Marys, University of London. She gives talk and masterclasses, and has led design projects for Opera North, Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House and was a regular contributor to the Royal Designers for Industrys Dartington summer school. She is part of a small group, the Museum of Learning, led by Dr James M Bradburne (Director of the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence).