Melike is based in Istanbul, Turkey (originally born in Samsun in 1980), if I remember correctly, another artist told her about Cultivate and she got in touch, or was it us who made first contact with her having seen something on a social media feed? I really can’t remember now, I do know she has…
The open call element of our next Cultivate group show, Mixtape No.3, is very very much open at the moment. We do like open calls and we are very vocal about the open call policy and especially in terms of the cynical practice of charging and exploiting artists in terms of so called administration fees…
Spent the morning going through all the submissions so far from the next Mixtape show (well the one’s we hadn’t already responded to), had some good art in from a painter based in Cambridge today, and from an artist working in Brazil, I do keep saying we like the way this on-line shows take us…
We’re off and running, new year, more activity, more looking beyond the London bubble, more shows, more on-line exhibitions for we like the way our on-line shows reach out around the land and the globe to artists like Melike over in Turkey, or Sarah Jones over in Worcestershire or that artist from Manchester or Shrewsbury…
Now we posted this little piece on the Organ website back at the very end of December 2021 in a piece that also featured Five pieces of art – Wawi Navarroza’s beautifully stylised photographs, Wayne Thiebaud’s cakes, Kayla Mahaffey, Martha Cooper, and Petro alongide Madeleine Strindberg’s paintings… and here we are now at the end…
The end of the year, we could look back, it was, even though were were still recovering from the blows dealt by Covid and the various lockdowns, it was a positive year. We could look back but we’d rather look forward and get going with 2023. We’ll be back at the start of February with…
Milly Aburrows is a rather exciting rather colourful artist, she’s one of the artists participating in Mixtape No.2 and she’s just become the seventeenth artist to answer those 13 questions we like to fire out now and again, you can find Milly’s answers and more over on the Organ website, here’s the link – 13…
Where were we? As busy as always here beneath the calm. I think we can say the Mixtape group shows of October and November went rather well, as did the Three x Three shows, positive engagement from all over the country and indeed the globe, I know I keep saying it but I do like…
Ahead of Thursday’s latest Art Car Boot Fair event, it runs from 6pm on Thursday December 1st until end of day on Sunday December 4th here’s an Organ feature on Emma Harvey’s latest prints – ORGAN THING: Oh Bondage, Up Yours! Two new Emma Harvey hand-cut lino prints and a playlist ready for the opening…
Two sets of answers to the question of 13 questions over on our sister website Organ, both from artists who feature in the current Mixtape No.2 group show. SARAH JONES – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Artist Sarah Jones and her recently discovered deep love of posts – Artist Sarah Jones has been busy making posts,…
. Monday Monday, what are we doing today? Too many things at once is the answer to that one. Mixtape No.2 is still being explored by healthy numbers of people from all over the globe and Emma and I have both been busy getting new work together for the next Art Car Boot Fair, more…
Mixtape No.2 is open, 37 artists and 220 pieces of art to explore, an online group show, here’s the link. Once agqain we’ve gathered artists from all over the land and indeed the globe, we’ve mixed things up in a way that would never work in a physical space, a mixtape of art waiting to…
Busy busy “hanging” the latest exhbition, I’m sure these on-line shows take up far more time than physical group shows do. Mixtape No.2 opens on Tuesday evening, we’ll post the link once the show is open, once again the show will be hosted by Organ on the Organ website. Here’s the show poster
Last day of October, we’re pleased enough with how the month has gone, as artists first and curators second, we’re kind of happy with our online activity and the Cultivate situation right now. We do say somewhere on this website that Cultivate is mostly about physical shows but the reality is that the hit we…
Sad news this morning, we’re sorry to hear of the passing, last week, of artist Peter A. Leigh. Peter, a rather prolific artist based in Kent (where he had been studying in Canterbury), had been a regular participant in Cultivate shows over the last couple of years, indeed he was a strong part of our…
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