Start of August, glorious sunshine, where are we? What is going on? Some start of the month thoughts on the what, where, when and the why not do it all again? People are calling us and asking about new physical shows, when will we back? Will we ever be back? “Come on, the virus is…
Nice piece about Cultivate during lockdown on the Curator Space website today, Curator Space is one of the more positive sites in terms of working artists wanting to connect up with artist-led galleries and such, we always post our Cultivate Open Calls of their website, we’ve found quite a few exciting artists via the site.…
It isn’t broken so why fix it? Well no, pretty much everything is broken, we still don’t know where we are as Cultivate in terms of future plans and future physical shows, we still don’t know where we are as working functioning artists, will we even get to exhibit work in a physical way this…
How have we been spending our Cultivate lockdown? Well like everyone else involved in curating art shows, we got hit by the virus and having to close exhibitions that had only just opened and cancel shows that were coming up and throw all the plans out of the window, you’ve heard the stories from many…
“And with good reason” she said, (And with good) Reason then, a third and final on-line art exhibition brought to you by Cultivate during these strange locked-down virus-fearing times, it opened on-line last Thursday evening. When we first planned April’s #43Artists show, the first of what has now become a trilogy of on-line exhibitions, we…
The third and final Cultivate on-line show durng this lockdown period is now live and can be viewed over on the Organ website via this link. “And with good reason” she said, (And with good) Reason then, a third and final on-line art exhibition brought to you by Cultivate during these strange locked-down virus-fearing times.…
The full artist line up for the (And with good) Reason show that open’s tomorrow night, looks like this… AMY ROBSON, ANNABELLE RICHMOND-WRIGHT, BEN FENTON, BRETT BANKS, DAN BROUGHTON, EMMA HARVEY, FERGUS HARE, GIRL SHIT, HARRY MARTIN, HELEN SHULKIN, IZZIE BEIRNE, JAMES HALLINAN, JAMES JOHNSTON, JEREMY MORGAN, JESSICA HILL, JOHN GATHERCOLE, KAREN BEATTIE, KATYA GRANOVA,…
One last on-line show during these strange locked down times, while the Arts Council here in England congratulate themselves, we’ll get on with actually walking it rather than just talking it. Yeah, I know I said I’d shut up about the damn council, I did promise we’d never mention the damn Art Council again but…
Someone just objected to us posting this photograph on the Cultivate Facebook page this morning, seems he thinks it is “meaningless”, so just for him we’ll post it here as well. That damn statue in Bristol should have been pulled down years ago, that photo is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in ages,…
A third show during these times of Lockdown and closed galleries, a third on line show once again hosted on the Organ website and opening at 8pm on Thursday June 18th. A third on-line group show since the gallery doors were locked back in the middle of March. Out ninth on-line show in all and…
Yesterday someone politely asked if we had a policy in terms of who gets to take part in Cultivate shows, I think the person was asking (on #BlackoutTuesday) about the skin colour of the artists who actually take part in our shows, about the ethnic background of our artists. Generally, in terms of open calls…
#BlackoutTuesday #Theshowmustbepaused – Tokenism I know, but all black lives do matter, community matters, these things matter …
CULTVATE Presents (And with good) Reason – opening night Thursday June 18th, 8pm, same place as last time and the time before that for there is good reason to do it all again.Whatever the Art Council might think about us not really needing emergency funding while others who do far (far) less that us in…
well after a number of slightly annoying e.mails from them yesterday, we just got a phone call from Art Council England for which we say thank you. Clearly they are now trying to reach our a little more than they have done over the last nine years of Cultivate, clearly the blogs and the social…
We did get a reply yesterday from the grandly titled “Senior Manager, Compliance & Improvement” at the Arts Council, we were told to expect a reply by whoever rums the Arts Council Facebook page, we were told that someone was “preparing a response”, the ” “prepared response” came though a couple of hours later, his…
