TIME TO CAN THE CAN…. Well thanks to everyone who came down over the last week, that was our busiest week for sometime, a quick one week show, some exclaiming, some fresh leaf growth, lots of people, conversation, healthy debate (healthy sales) and, well, thank you. That was last week, this is this week, can…
The second TEN show came down yesterday, and today we open a last minute week-long show of my paintings…. SEAN WORRALL and guests – PAINTINGS, a one week show at Cultivate, Vyner Street Paintings on canvas, on wooden packing cases and broken table tops, on cardboard, on old pieces of wood and other found recycled…
CAN? An exercise in transplanting the art of the street, and the strands of street art’s associated culture, in to the gallery environment, especially the slightly alien Vyner Street environment, our not so alien, rather uniquely positioned, corner space and our ever open street-level front door. This time we intend filling our (almost on the…
The week just gone by at Cultivate then… A week in which the Red Revised show came to a triumphant end Ten 2 opened, a week in which feathers were (rightly) ruffled – seems some don’t like us artists being smart about our art and questioning their practices. Thursday saw Ten 2 open,…
CHANGE OF PLAN AT CULTIVATE Spent the busy weekend chewing all this over in the gallery while really enjoying the art and the positive response to the TEN:2 show that currently occupies our walls and plinths. Feeling really good about the latest Ten show and really not feeling good about the forthcoming YOU show, We…
TEN:2 The very simple act of dividing the gallery walls in to ten sections once again, and once again inviting ten carefully selected artists to do whatever they wish within their space… TEN :2 @ CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET, LONDON, E2 – Opening night, THURSDAY 11th APRIL, 6pm and then usual gallery opening times until April…
So RED REVISED is almost over, the show opened on a Thursday evening (that wasn’t a First Thursday) at our paint-scarred corner building that is the current home of Cultivate, it carried on through a second late opening in the shape of First Thursday, a night that marked eighteen months of what was only ever…
tonight then, the first of what I hope will be an ongoing series of First Friday artist meetings. Bring yourselves, bring your cards, flyers, come network, come voice ideas, discuss, exchange, come network without some beSmartAbout whatever organisation trying to make money out of you, I got an invite the other day to come to a…
CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET – GALLERY NEWSLETTER UPDATE TIME, April 2nd. a blog version of the newsletter than just went out to our mailing list… RED REVISED show, FIRST THURSDAY, FRIDAY ARTIST MEETING, LATEST ARTIST CALLS… The sun is out, the heatwave is almost here, red red red… Trying to keep these gallery e.mail newsletters short…
FIRST FRIDAY ARTIST NETWORKING MEETING @ CULTIVATE. VYNER STREET. Earlier this month we voiced the idea of an artist meeting at Cultivate to discuss the idea of an artist-run space, the notions of artist collectives, of artists doing it ourselves, as well as feedback on what we’ve learned over the first 18 months of our…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 