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BIO / CV

b.1976, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK
Lives and works in Letchworth Garden City, UK

A current Fellow at Digswell Arts Trust, Nade is a UK-based visual artist whose work begins with walking, foraging and drawing from life.

 

Working across painting, printmaking, collage and sketchbooks, she explores overlooked plants, found objects and everyday encounters, building layered works that balance observation with experimentation.

 

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)

Awards & Professional Affiliations

  • Bursary Winner, School of Stitched Textiles (2022)

  • Wraptious Prize Winner (2019)

  • Member, Society of Embroidered Work

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)

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)

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)

Press & Features

 

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NADE SIMMONS

Nade Simmons. Original Paintings & Sketchbooks.

Based in Letchworth Garden City, UK

©2026 what nade made

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