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Nu-Urban Gardeners

2010

Location – New Street Square
Event – City of London Festival 2010
Date – Tuesday 13 July 2010
Time – 12pm – 7pm

NUG – Activity – ‘The Square Mile’ Tea Trolley Miniature Gardens
Garden Specialists - Chris Lewis-Jones & Simon Withers (Head Gardeners) 

Artists Chris Lewis-Jones and Simon Withers - dressed for the day as part gardener, part City Gent invited the public to create their very own miniature allotments with a twist. The upper trays of two tea trolleys – wheeled into the Square and embellished with umbrellas, clipboards, trowels and signifying both City and natural world were covered with topsoil and ‘plots’ marked out. Participants were able to choose from a host of materials and props. The NUG memo to the City Gardeners’ invited the contributors to design their own landscape and the design; site specific (e.g. The City of London), sensible (e.g. a bio diverse and sustainable inner London habitat) or surreal (e.g. a habitat for bored bankers).

NUG 'Certificates of Participation' were presented to all contributors

The NUGs would like to thank Corinne Bass & Emma Thomas for inviting us to take part in a brace of City of London festivals. We were made to feel most at home by the people who work in and around New Street Square…at the end of our performance we were welcomed into one of the bars and treated to a much need ice cold larger. Also to Bill Gee for putting us up at this home…just a short and suitable walk to Tate Modern.  

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