Simon Withers
Garden Manager
Upon the conclusion of the Newstead Abbey residency Simon will no longer be working as a Nu-Urban Gardener. The NUGs will continue with Garden Manager Chris Lewis-Jones.
Live art & Performance events
2014 Cousin Itt & Brain Bug Performances, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd. Nottingham Contemporary
2012 Cyril Seaton's Cycle Roots, PRIMARY launch event
2011 Speaking in Tongues. Beacon live art evening, Lincolnshire
2010 Cyril Seaton's Cycle Roots - Reunion exhibition, Oldknows Studios, Nottingham
2010 Cyril Seaton’s Cycle Roots@Wunderkammer. Sideshow event, Nottingham
2010 Making Sandcastles. Bathing Beauties Festival, Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire.
2010 Nu-Urban Gardeners. Watch This Space Festival, National Theatre, Southbank Center,
2010 Nu-Urban Gardeners. City of London Festival. Hampstead Heath & New Street Square events
2010 Nu-Urban Gardeners. BLINK Summer Sundae, Northampton
2010 Box ‘BoomBox’ Dayekine Street-Backlit studios Nottingham. Bowed cymbal performance
2009 Watch this Space-Alternative Village Fete. National Theatre, Southbank Center, London.
2008 Seaton’s Cycle Roots. Stuff of Life Festival, Sherwood, Nottingham
2008 Seaton’s Cycle Roots. Ram Jam & Concertina. St Werburgh’s Church, Derby
2008 Seaton’s Cycle Roots. Finding Beauty. 22.05.08 & 23.05.08, The Old Police Station,
2008 Drill Hall Lincoln. Cyril Seaton’s Cycle Roots. Collaborative live art performance
2007 Bloc Assembly Event. Bloc Studios, Sheffield (Considering Venus#3)
2007 Seaton’s Cycle Roots. Live music performance with Chris Lewis-Jones. mere jelly HQ
2007 Considering Venus. Angel Row Gallery. 28.02.07
2006 Rex Barker on Seaton. Nottingham Open Festival
2006 Considering Venus. August 9th @ mere jelly HQ
Selected Exhibitions
2015 Extended Studio Project, Aid & Abet, Cambridge & Primary
2014 All Glitched Up, Tate Britain
2014 Ghost, Nottingham Castle & Art Gallery
2013 Rashleigh Jackson Collection, Nottingham Contemporary
2012 Artefacts of Failure, Quad, Derby
2011 Contrivances, Tarpey Gallery, Derbyshire
2011 Wildflowers. Nottingham Studios presents...Exchange Building Nottingham
2010 Northern Stars. A Foundation, Liverpool.
Selected by Rebecca Wilson, Associate Director, Saatchi Gallery
2010 I can see your house from here. Actual Wall, Nottingham
2009 Memory & Migration. Actual Wall, Nottingham. Inaugural Cruiser exhibition
2009 Art of Ideas. Curated by Stephen Snoddy. Baskerville House, Birmingham
2008 Solo Exhibition. Meta Hang. Nottingham Castle & Art Gallery
2007/08 Pricked: Extreme Embroidery. Museum of Art & Design, New York.
2007 Out of Place. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. Curated by Mary Doyle. Group show
2007 Terra Incognita. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. Curated by Indra Khanna. Group show
2006 yes I said yes I will yes. 1851 Gallery. Nottingham Trent University. Group Show
2005 (dis)Comfort. Angel Row Gallery. Group Show
2004 mere jelly @ On the Wall 04. London Olympia
2004 A breath of Fresh Air. Byard Art. Cambridge
2002 Linking Rhythms. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2002 East Midlands Business Centre. Brussels
2002 The affordable Art Fair. Battersea Park, London
2001 Year of the Artist Symposium Exhibition. Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2001 AV Modern Brittisk Knonst. Foreningen, Norden, Gothenburg. Sweden
2001 Museum of the South West. Midland, Texas. USA
2001 Multi- Folds 1991-2001. Solo show of paintings. Wrexham Arts Centre
2000 Multi-Folds. Solo show of paintings. Nottingham Castle & Art Gallery
2000 Beach hut residency work. Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2000 ‘Works’ Three person show. The Art Exchange, Nottingham
2000 Beach hut residency exhibition. Year of the Artist. Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire
2000 Box project. Museum of Installation, Museum of Installation/Angel Row Gallery
1998 Mostyn 10 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
1998 Painters Painting Four Artists, Atrium Gallery, Derby
1996 somewhereinbetween. Four-person installation show. Broad Street Gallery, Nottingham
1994 Box Art. Nottingham Castle & Art Gallery
Short listings/Prizes
2013 Open 100 - Artangel
2012 AXIS - artist of the Month for November 2012
2008 Stuff of Life Festival Bread Competition. First Prize for breads - Banana / Breakfast Bread
2007 Stuff of Life Festival Bread Competition. First Prize for breads
2007 Heart’s Pumpkin Competition (First Prize) ‘Invisible Pumpkin’
Judge Alex Farquaharson Director of Nottingham Contemporary
2006 Jerwood/Artangel Commissions ‘The March of Silence’ Short listed
2006 Nottingham Castle & Art Gallery. Nottingham Open Exhibition award
2002 Breedon Books Award. Prize for artworks
2001 BBC Birmingham Film Award. A Postcard From Sutton On Sea Short listed
2001 Great East Midlands Landmark, Business East Midlands.
Designs of ‘Rainbow Arch’ short listed
1999 City Arts. Solo Exhibition Award. Nottingham
1999 Natwest Art Prize.Five works make the second round of judging
* For further information see artist's website (Clubs & Societies links page)