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Nu-Urban Gardeners

NUG C

Chris Lewis-Jones
Garden Manager

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Cultivation

1996 -98  Member of Windmill Garden Allotments
1980 –82  Chair of Raunds Archaeoligcal Allotment Asociation
1979       Gardener for Sunderland City Council


selected live art/performance
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2016    Lace Market Gallery - Accoutrements of Domestic Ritual
2012    PRIMARY - Launch event, Cyril Seaton's Cycle Roots 
2010    The Art Organisation/Side Show  Nottingham  Cyril Seaton’s Cycle Roots
2010    Nottingham Contemporary   Scribal Gathering  Cold War Baby
2010    Nottingham Contemporary   portrait of an exhibition
2010    2009  Watch this Space   Home Live Art Festival   National Theatre  London
2010    Saint George’s Day (filmed performance) Borough Museum Gallery   Newcastle
2010    City of London Festival New Street Square Urban Gardeners hopeful habitats
2010    Never mind the Pollox  (filmed performance)  Notts Loves Learning Festival
2010    ‘Yes, I am an Englishman!’   Tate Modern/Guggenheim, Bilbao (Spain)
2009    Watch this Space   Home Live Art Festival   National Theatre  London
2008    Cyril Seaton’s Cycle Roots Drill Hall, Lincoln &  Speak Freely Festival, Derby
2006    ‘Yes, I am an Englishman!’   Tate Modern/Guggenheim, Bilbao (Spain)
2005    Searching 4 Albion Tate Modern (filmed performance) 
2003    Strangers in the Night   Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (filmed performance) 

selected exhibitions

2011    Richard Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
2011    Durban House Museum, Eastwood (Nottingham Contemporary/BBC)
2010    Borough Museum and Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
2010    Air Space Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
2010    Gallery Déda, Derby
2010    National Theatre, London
2009    Yard Gallery, Nottingham
2009    National Theatre, London
2008    Air Space Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
2008    Derby Museum and Gallery
2008    Yard Gallery, Nottingham
2008    Another Road Side Attraction Gallery, London
2007    City Gallery,  Southampton
2007    Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
2006    Nottingham Castle Gallery  (solo exhibition) 
2006    Corner House, Manchester
2004    Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
2004    Derby Museum and Gallery
2003    Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
2003    Q Arts, Derby  (solo exhibition)
2002    City Gallery,  Leicester
2002    Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
2001    Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
2000    National Museum of Installation Art,  London
1999    Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
1999    Stamford Arts Centre (solo exhibition)
1999    City Gallery,  Leicester
1997    Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham  (solo exhibition)
1994    Nottingham Castle Gallery  (solo exhibition)
1992    City Gallery,  Leicester

selected public art

2005    Money’s Yard (installation of shaped paintings opposite Hub Gallery), Sleaford
1993    Westminster  Banner  Project, Victoria (and other) railway stations, London 
1992    Lincolnshire Life Mural, Lincoln Castle (largest mural in UK)

selected curated exhibitions

2008    ram jam + concertina  Derby Museum and Gallery
2006    id4me  (refugee artists)  Nottingham & Notts Refugee Forum
2000    Viva Zero   (Gallery Art Group) Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
1996    Forest-Coal-Forest  (with Bilsthorpe youth club),  Angel Row Gallery
1995    Freedom of Expression  (with Amnesty/Tom Hackett), Angel Row Gallery
1995    Every Cloud  (elderly practitioners),  Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham

selected screenings

2008    triptych4theboys (projection) Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
2004    triptych4theboys (projection) Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
2006    S4Albion screening and seminar City Arts, Nottingham

selected collaborations

2010   Simon Withers, Simon Raven, Wholesome Fish,  Saira Lloyd,  Angela Warren
2011   IGNITE futures- collaborating with scientists in schools
2009   IGNITE futures- collaborating with scientists in schools
2008   IGNITE futures- collaborating with scientists in schools
2008   Pritam Singh/Guru Ravidas/Assembly Rooms, Derby (composition/performance)
1994   Tom Hackett/Amnesty International/Angel Row Gallery (workshops and exhibition)

professional qualifications

2007   Professional Trainer’s Award (Credit)  Broadway Media Centre Nottingham 
2004   MA Art & Design Advanced Practice & Theory (Distinction) University of Derby
2002   Post Graduate Certificate in Arts Practice (Fine Art) University of Derby
1991   Certificate in Adult  & FE  (Stage II) City & Guilds, Basford Hall College Notts
1989   Certificate in Adult & Further Education (Stage I)  Northamptonshire  LEA
1978   BA Hons Fine Art (2.1) Sunderland Polytechnic School of Art
1975   Art & Design Foundation, Stourbridge School of Art

selected teaching/lecturing experience

2010         Lecturer in Contemporary Art, Nottingham Contemporary
2010         Visiting Lecturer, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
2010         Lecturer in Visual Studies, University of Derby
2009         Course Leader, Emerging Artist’s PCDL Course, Castle College, Nottingham
2006          Visiting Lecturer Derby University P/T (PGC Arts Practice/Year Zero/Fine Art)
1997-2005  Access to Art+Design/Foundation  Course Leader, People’s College
1996-2000  Gallery Art Group Coordinator, University of Nottingham (P/T)
1991-1997  Lecturer in Art & Design, Highbury Hospital/The People’s College (P/T)

selected conferences/seminars

2010    PiCL Travelling Hopefully Creative Learning seminar, Burselm School of Art
2008    talk & seminar ‘rationalism revisited’  British Humanist  Association, East Midlands Branch
2007    ‘Using installation art to enhance understanding of language/s’ 
           Creative Curriculum Conference, University of Nottingham
2006    paper exploring ‘extent to which an artist’s practice informs his/her work within       
           educational contexts’  CP creative practitioners’ conference at Nottingham Trent University
1998    artists’ panel/seminar on Public Art, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham

other professional experience

2009 -2011    Associate Artist, Nottingham Contemporary (P/T)
1994-2005     Artistic Director  Sambawamba (participatory arts company) (P/T)     
1992-1993     Education Officer for Visual Art, Castle Museum/Nottingham City Council

selected voluntary work

2005- 2007    Chair, NCAN (Nottingham Contemporary Artists’ Network)
2005- 2009    Chair, Oldknows Studio Group
1992-1996     Board of Directors, Meadows Community Arts, Nottingham
1988-1989     Coordinator Oxfam Campaign Group (Hungry for Change) Northampton

awards

2008    Nott’m City Big 10 Award: Neighbourhood Project of the Year (for Stuff of Life)
2008    Most Original Robin Hood Prize, International Gathering at Nottingham Castle
2001    Best Troupe Award, Nottingham Afro Caribbean carnival
1999    Best Troupe Award, Nottingham Afro Caribbean carnival
1993    1st Prize  Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade (processional sculpture)
1993    3rd Prize (Painting)  Rufford  Arts Centre/East Midlands Open 



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