The next on-line show from Cultivate goes by the name of Alright? And yes, we are asking if you are and yes we are still thinking, whatever happens in terms of a potential new normal and potential light at the end of the tunnel and gallery re-openings in a physical sense, that there just might…
We just posted a preview piece om the Organ website, Monsur’s paintings have figured in three Cultivate shows over the lasy year ORGAN THING: Monsur Awotunde and a solo show, Moving Entities, bold paintings, paintings with roots, exciting paintings, opening tonight… Organ Thing of The Day: I can’t actually recall how Monsur’s rich paintings first…
As Emma pointed out on her Instagram feed a couple of days ago, “WOW – 8 years ago tonight we opened YEASTIE GIRLS! a group show curated by myself at Cultivate, London on Vyner Street…. it was a packed evening, full of energy and positivity with performance, video art, walls filled with work, zines, feminist…
And so the day of the Self show is upon us, Self opens on-line tonight, Tuesday February 23rd at 8pm UK time via the pages of our hosts, Organ magazine. Here’s a small taste of what you might espect… STOP PRESS: tHE SHOW IS NOW OPEN – Cultivate presents Self – a carefully curated show…
Cultivate presents Self – a carefully curated show of self portraits o an on-line show and 33 invited artists, mostly painters, one or two who paint with cameras or pencils or… Self will open on-line at 8pm (UK time) on Tuesday February 23rd Self will be just that, a show alive with artists challenged to…
x The full and final list of participating artists for the Self show has now been confirmed. We’ll have full links to them all posted with the actual show. The show will open on Tuesday 23rd February, 8pm UK time, hosted once more on the pages of our sister website Organ magazine. Rather pleased with…
Today is mostly about pulling together the final details of the next Cultivate show. Self will open at 8pm UK on Tuesday February 23rd. I’m feeling rather excited about the art and artists in this show, we’ll announce the final list of confirmed artists on Wednesday. The Self show will be the second on-line show…
Australian painter Kim Leutwyler will be joining us for Self, we really do like the strength of Kim’s work. Here’s a feature that ran via organ back in 2017 – KIM LEUTWYLER – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Kim Leutwyler… – Kim Leutwyler is a painter who we’ve been admiring for some time, her beautiful use…
This preview piece just ran on the Organ website, we’ll repeat it here…. Organ preview: Once again the forthcoming Cultivate Gallery on-line exhibition, Self, will be hosted right here on these pages. All of Cultivate’s on-line exhibitions so far have been hosted on the Organ website (there is a close relationship between Organ and Cultivate…
We’re busy working on a programme of on-line shows that will run throughout 2021. At the moment, in terms of Cultivate, we don’t really know when we will be back with physical shows, the on-line shows over the last 12 months have been rather successful though, so whatever happens with covid and lockdowns and getting…
Start of February, we are still getting on with a busy programme of on-line shows, I expect they will happen at least once a month is 2021 for as long as we can keep things going. ReCultivate opened in January, Self will happen in February and Alright? will take place in March. We’re also working…
Cultivate is mostly funded, especially now during this ongoing extended period of lockdown and lockdoors, by the sales Emma and I make ourselves as artists. All the time spant dealing with the open calls and putting together the on-line shows is funded from the sales of our own art. Most years we’d be well in…
We just sent out our first Gallery mailout of the year, if you’re not on the mailing list or you missed it, here’s what we had to say… CULTIVATE UPDATE: Our first show of 2021 is now open, ReCultivate features the work of 35 carefully selected artists. This is the start of Cultivate’s tenth year,…
A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters…
The ReCultivate on-line exhibition is now open and ready to be viewed on the Organ magazine pages via this link
