Editing Jeff Nuttall (section)

==Life and work==
Nuttall was born in [[Clitheroe]], [[Lancashire]], and grew up in [[Orcop]], a village in [[Herefordshire]]. He studied at Hereford College of Art, (1949–1951) and Bath Academy of Art, Corsham Court (1951–1953) He married Jane Louch, his former art teacher in 1954 and in the same year gained a teaching MA at The Institute of Education in London followed by [[national service]] completed in 1956. With his family he moved to London in 1959 where he worked as a secondary school teacher in Finchley.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Charnley |first=James |title=Anything But Dull: The Art and Life of Jeff Nuttall |publisher=Academica Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781680536744 |location=Washington DC, London, UK |pages=51–62 |language=English}}</ref> He was active with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) until 1962, then inspired by [[Alexander Trocchi]] and [[Peter Currell Brown]], he committed to making art to change society. He made connections with other avant-garde writers and artists in Group H including [[Bob Cobbing]]<ref>{{cite news |author=Robert Sheppard |title=Obituary: Bob Cobbing &#124; Books |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/oct/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |access-date=2014-07-24}}</ref> and [[John Latham (artist)|John Latham]].<ref name="guardobit"/>

In 1963 Nuttall produced the first of 17 issues of ''[[My Own Mag]]'' with contributions from [[William S. Burroughs|William Burroughs]]. ''MOM'' was one of the first underground magazines which were a defining feature of the 1960s counterculture.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Charnley |first=James |title=Anything But Dull: The Life and Art of Jeff Nuttall |publisher=Academica Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781680536744 |location=Washington DC, London UK |pages=88–95}}</ref>

During 1965 Nuttall staged early Happenings at Better Books in London.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keshvani |first=Rozemin |title=Better Books / Better Bookz, Art, Anarchy, Apostasy, Counter Culture and the New Avant-garde |publisher=ZKM, Koenig Books |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-96098-458-0 |location=London |pages=159–163 |language=English}}</ref>

An overload of creative work and marital difficulties caused Nuttall to retreat to the [[Abbey Arts Centre|Abbey Art Centre]] where he formed The People Show in 1966, one of the first and longest lasting Performance Art groups.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nuttall |first=Jeff |title=Performance Art: Memoirs |publisher=John Calder |year=1979 |isbn=0714537888 |location=London |pages=20–23 |language=English}}</ref> During 1967 he contributed regularly to ''[[International Times]]'', and wrote ''[[Bomb Culture]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Charnley |first=James |title=Anything But Dull: The Life and Art of Jeff Nuttall |publisher=Academica Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781680536744 |location=Washing to DC, London UK |pages=125–128, 187–189 |language=English}}</ref> his personal account and critical analysis of the birth of the alternative society. The book was published in 1968 and then in 1970 as a best selling Paladin paperback. During this time Nuttall was  teaching and writing in Norwich and would move first to Bradford College of Art in 1969 and then to Leeds Polytechnic Fine Art Department where he was a senior lecturer for ten years from 1970 to 1981. Nuttall was active in Performance Art collaborating with Rose McGuire (Priscilla Beecham),<ref>{{cite web |first=Anna |last=Tomkinson |title='What a bright beam we had cast into their lives': exploring the papers of Priscilla Staples (Beecham) 1947–2018 |work=Rylands Blog |publisher=John Rylands Research Institute and Library |date=15 November 2018 |url=https://rylandscollections.com/2018/11/15/what-a-bright-beam-we-had-cast-into-their-lives-exploring-the-papers-of-priscilla-staples-beecham-1947-2018/ |access-date=27 February 2023 }}</ref> and influencing other performers and students including [[Marc Almond]].  His presence in the Fine Art department did much to define the radical creative ethos at Leeds.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Charnley |first=James |title=Creative License: From Leeds College of Art to Leeds Polytechnic 1963–1973 |publisher=Lutterworth |year=2015 |isbn=9780718893477 |location=Cambridge, UK |pages=146–150 |language=English}}</ref> 

He was elected Chairman of the National Society of Poetry in 1975 and with [[Eric Mottram]] tried to introduce radical modernist poetry occasioning the Poetry Wars.<ref name="barry">{{Cite book |last=Barry |first=Peter |title=Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court |publisher=Salt Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=9781844712472 |location=Cambridge |pages=144–172 |language=English}}</ref> From 1979 to 1981 Nuttall was poetry critic for ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref name="guardobit"/>

Appointed Head of Fine Art at [[Liverpool Polytechnic]] in 1981, his tenure was marked by controversial teaching initiatives, residencies at [[Deakin University]], Australia, and increasing alcoholic consumption, all of which contributed to his early departure in 1984.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Charnley |first=James |title=Anything But Dull: The Life and Art of Jeff Nuttall |publisher=Academica Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781680536744 |location=Washington DC, London |pages=341–360 |language=English}}</ref>

With his last partner, Jill Richards, he moved to [[Abergavenny]], Wales, in 1991, and later to [[Crickhowell]]. His creative output continued with soft sculptures, landscape paintings, poetry, and writing. His last two books were ''Art and the Degradation of Awareness'' (1999) and ''Selected Poems'' (2003).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saltpublishing.com/ |title=Salt – Publishers of Lesley Glaister, Alison Moore, Alice Thompson, the Best British anthologies and Modern Dreams |publisher=Salt Publishing |access-date=2014-07-24}}</ref> He died aged 70 on 4 January 2004 at the Hen and Chickens pub (known as the Hen and Chicks) in Abergavenny, where his jazz band had performed regularly for ten years.<ref name="guardobit"/>