Time to wake things up for 2026? We’re almost ready to go again, I think we are, almost refreshed, almost… The first physical Cultivate show is booked for the Spring, meanwhile we’re ready to get going with more online shows, there tenth Mixtape group show will be along in March, before that a series of…
Those are some Richard Amor paintings up there, more on Richard in a moment. You’re right, 2025 was way way too quiet in terms of Cultivate, long gone are the maximalist days of Vyner Street now, gone are the days when East London was alive with the possibilities offered by empty or unwanted buildings, where…
The 199th Cultivate event, our latest Mixtape on-line group exhibition, opens tonight, 7pm (UK time), tonight being Tuesday 25th March 2025. Here’s the line up and the show poster. The link will appear here as soon as the show is open. 36 carefully selected artists and over 200 pieces of art waiting to be explored…
We’re waking up with Spring, the Madeleine Strindberg on-line exhibition has just opened, the next Mixtape show is on the way in a couple of weeks, and we’re working on a number of other things that we’re keeping under our hats right now, and talking of right now… Cultivate presents: Sean Worrall, #43Leaves, 43 pieces…
And the Madeleine Strindberg exhibition is now open, it opened online last night to good numbers and a more than healthy response. We like doing these on-line shows, they work. Once again the exhibition is hosted on our sister website Organ, here comes the link – Madeleine Strindberg – A Solo Show – An online…
Where were we? We asked that already didn’t we? Time to come out of hibernation? Spin around, a little bit more? Well why not, the Mixtape shows and the online exhibitions aren’t broken so nothing really needs fixing. Time to gather around the tips of bulbs and the shapes of things to come. You know…
Where were we? Time to come out of hibernation? Spin around, a little bit more? Well why not, the Mixtape shows and the online exhibitions aren’t broken so nothing really needs fixing, and well, it must work, we see others trying to do it, impersonation is flattery and the more the merrier. Time for another…
We have new two new limited edition Emma Harvey “F**k Your Boys Club” prints, the original prints sold out in one day at last Summer’s Art Car Boot Fair, there are now two new limited editions of 20 in two new colourways, one black and one pink, both on silver. The prints are 2 layered…
Black Subjective will open next weekend, a solo show from London-based painter Yasmin Grant and her very powerful paintings built with lusciously painted golds, rich dark browns and yellows, deep dark blues that are almost but not quite the blackest of black… Yasmin is an artist we’ve been covering and featuring regularly over on the…
And the latest online Mixtape group show is open. Onc again hosted on the Organ magazine website, here’s the link… Cultivate presents Mixtape No.8 – an online art exhibition… Welcome to Mixtape No.8, once again, just like last time, we’ll let the art do the walking and most of the talking first rather than clutter the…
And so, Three x Three (Part Nine) opened – Cultivate presents Three x Three (Part Nine) – an online art exhibition featuring Edgington, Francesca Alaimo and Melike… Welcome to the latest Three x Three exhibition, the ninth. Once again just three artists sharing our space, this time two rather figurative and one a little more abstract.…
We did explain the idea (and the history) behind the Three x Three exhibitions a couple of days ago, the online shows are just one of many balls we are trying to keep in air right now. Today we have the names of the three artists involved in our latest Three x Three show, three…
About the Three x Three exhibitions Back in the early days of Cultivate, back a dozen or so years ago, we ran a series of shows called “Three x Three” where we gave one of the three gallery walls to an artist, three artists sharing a wall each in the gallery. I think we did…
A Big big thanks to everyone who came along, good to see so many familiar faces and to meet a few new ones. We do love the engage that takes place with the one and only Art Car Boot Fair The Live version of the Art Car Boot Fair may be done and dusted for…
Was that the very very (very) last day of Summer just then? Just there, in the square in Kings Cross? At the Art Car Boot Fair in the last bits of sun? Hopefully not but that was yesterday and our thoughts are now turning to more online things (alongside other things). Thing is, we like…
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