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BIO / CV

b.1976 Hitchin, Herts UK

Lives & works in Letchworth Garden City, UK

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Nade is a UK-based visual artist exploring the quiet tension between beauty, danger, and decay. Through raw mark-making, layered textures, and unfiltered observation, her work queries the spaces where nature unravels and survival persists.

A current Fellow at Digswell Arts Trust, she exhibits widely across the UK and was recently awarded an Artist Residency at The Letchworth Settlement.

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whatnademade@gmail.com

WHAT NADE MADE

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Fellowships & Residencies

  • Fellow, Digswell Arts Trust (2023 – present)

  • Artist in Residence, The Letchworth Settlement (2024 – 2025)

  • Chairman, The Wynd Gallery (2022 - 2025)

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Awards & Professional Affiliations

  • Bursary Winner, School of Stitched Textiles (2022)

  • Wraptious Prize Winner (2019)

  • Member, Society of Embroidered Work

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Education & Mentorship

  • Wendy Brightbill Mentorship Programme (2024)

  • BA (Hons) Applied & Media Arts (2000)

  • HND Design & Creative Arts (1998)

  • Diploma, Interior Design (1996)

  • Furniture Design (FHEQ4) (1995)

  • BTEC Art & Design (1994)

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Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions

  • Revolutions, The Wynd Gallery (2025)

  • Petal Epidemic, The Wynd Gallery (2025)

  • Artist Takeover, The Letchworth Settlement (2025)

  • Order | Chaos, Fenners Gallery (2024)

  • All Our Stories, The Wynd Gallery (2024)

  • Dichotomy, Fenners Gallery (2024)

  • Wanderwild, The Wynd Gallery (2022)

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Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Broadway Open, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (2025, 2024, 2023)

  • Insights, The Wynd Gallery (2025)

  • Passion, Determination, Vision, St Albans Museum & Gallery (2024)

  • Kimpton Art Show (2024, 2023, 2022)

  • Ayot St Lawrence Art Show (2024)

  • Open Studios, Digswell Arts (2023, 2024)

  • The Garden & The City, The Wynd Gallery (2024)

  • Artist of the Year, Wynd Gallery, Letchworth (2024)

  • Art in the Barn, The Old Vic, Hitchin (2024)

  • What Lies Beneath, Southern Maltings, Ware (2022)

  • Madeira Threads UK Tour — ExCel London, SEC Glasgow, NEC Birmingham (2022)

  • Open Studios, Gordon Craig Theatre (2022)

  • Restriction, Correspondence Collective, (2021)

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Press & Features

 

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NADE SIMMONS

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Nade Simmons. Original Paintings & Sketchbooks.

Based in Letchworth Garden City, UK

©2025 what nade made

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