I think it would be reasonable to say that the Nothing Is Square opening last Thursday evening, the second part of the latest month-ling Cultivate Columbia Road take over. went rather well. You can find quite a few words and a bag load of photos from both that show and the Chips, Starz, What Would…
We have an outburst coming up, a month of shows, another Columbia Road Takeover, three Cultivate shows that will take in all of November at East London’s rather well proportioned Shipton Street Gallery. The gallery, in a former greengrocer’s shop by Columbia Road, the Flower Market and everything that that involves and this time the…
These days, as you probably know, Cultivate in nomadic, you might say homeless, in some ways we kind of like it like that, we like popping up in different places and spaces, we like the excitement of different buildings, different streets, we might one day put down roots again but for now, while we…
The brilliant late afternoon light you get at this time of year in Hackney and East London makes it rather difficult not to think about the Autumn eight years ago when Cultivate first got off the ground. one of the very first (rather rushed) shows we put on was a group show called Red…
The 7th annual Art Licks Weekend starts on October 17th so we’re told. This year, the city-wide London event “takes on the theme of Interdependence, the importance of which is considered in light of increasing economic and political pressures”, personally as someone who has been involved in running an artist-;led London gallery for as long…
It might not look like it but we are very busy, busy juggling different hats and paint brushes and looking at weather reports, come on weather gods, one more weekend of glorious seaside sunshine please, some of us have hardly made it out of Hackney this summer! Whatever the weather the Art Car Boot fair…
We have some new Emma Harvey prints, some fresh new handmade prints, each one slight different to the last, the perfect way to do it. Some new Emma Harvey handmade A4 lino prints, “all A4 lino prints and all have eco glitter (biodegradeable, you get it from here)”. Two new Ponies Against Patriarchy prints (blue…
CURRENT OPEN CALLS: But please do read the policy on open calls on the open call page OPEN CALL: Nothing Is Square is mostly a group show featuring invited artists, but Cultivate is also about new blood and opening doors, we are very very picky, but it is important that new artists or artists we…
We’ve been relatively quiet in terms of Cultivate activity since those shows back in April (and the Art Car Boot Fair back in June of course) but we are plotting and doing things, it isn;t so full-on these days as it was, Emma and I are busy with our own art and there’s no point…
A quick one, there never really is time to write blogs and bits and you know the score, we’d rather be doing that writing about doing. The website and the blog was probably far more important when we did have a permanent home and running a full-time gallery was a priority, probably not quite so…
A quick Cultivate update, we’re busy, we’re in a rush, you know we are, we’re always busy, we said this last time (and the time before that), today we’re making signs ahead of Sunday’s Art Car Boot Fair, the Art Car Boot Fair is one of the best days on the London art calendar, always…
I wrote a piece for my own website yesterday, a piece about this year’s Art Car Boot Fair, I’ll reproduce it here, it is relevant to Cultivate and the boot I will be sharing with Emma Harvey and Quiet British Accent this year We were 43 days away from the 2019 Art Car Boot Fair…
