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    • Events 2014 >
      • Monsters & Mischief
      • The Alternative Village Fete-September 2014
      • Watch this Space 2014
      • Transported - Cabbages & Kings
      • NUG Away Day (2014)
      • Wassail!
    • Events 2013 >
      • Knot Garden Nugging
      • ChuggaNugging
      • Hedley Villas
    • Events 2012 >
      • Access all Areas
      • Long Eaton
      • Eastwood Event
      • WEYA
      • Lakeside
      • Hemlock Happening
      • NUGS@Nottingham Contemporary
      • Attenborough Nature Reserve
    • EVENTS 2011 >
      • Tattershall Castle
      • Tate Tea Trolley
      • A Walk in the Park
    • EVENTS 2010 >
      • Watch This Space
      • Blink Summer Sundae
      • New Street Square
      • Hampstead Heath
    • EVENTS 2009 >
      • The Alternative Village Fete
  • In the Shed
    • Moving Pictures
    • NUG / MUSIC + IMAGES
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Nu-Urban Gardeners

NUG S

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
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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)
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