ART IS FOR FRIDAY… and every other day. “Why do you ruin your paintings? They’re all ruined, you vandalise your own paintings, so silly” was my favourite comment today. Second week of the ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS show and the walls are evolving as pieces are sold and new art and…
Back in August we held a two-week show at Cultivate called WE ARE ALL SKATEBOARDERS. The reasons why we put on the show were well documented here at the time. The board of the heavily publicly funded London Southbank Centre,.with their very twisted (and frankly outrageously dishonest) PR spin, were divisively claiming the skateboard community,…
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CULTIVATE SPACE NEXT? AN ART CHUTE? AN ART SHOOT? WELCOME TO THE ART CHUTE…. Well I wrote a long-ass piece about the idea of an “art chute” and how to evolve the current Cultivate space into some kind of permanent collective base where a small group of committed pro-active artists work,…
Tuesday bloody Tuesday, still considering the notions of art chutes and why London-based artists don’t seem to want to get seriously involved in committed pro-active artist-run spaces. Said all this before though, and this week I really am enjoying the Katrine Storebo paintings we currently have in the gallery as part of the Art Is…
ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS – An affordable art event at Cultivate, Vyner Street – the show, is it a show? Is it an art event? An exhibition, an affordable art fair? A bit of all of those really, certainly being treated as a combination of all those elements by the people…
What is happening to Cultivate then? What is happening with our space down Vyner Street? Well as we’ve already said, the gallery, as you know it right now, is closing on December 8th, the artist-run gallery experiment has run its course now (see previous gallery blogs). We are currently exploring what we can do with…
WHAT PRICE ART? ART SOLD AT THE PRICE YOU CHOOSE TO PAY. WHAT HAPPENED? A look back at what happened now the show is over WHAT PRICE ART? A show where buyers could, should they wish, purchase a piece of art any price they like, and a show where we. as artists (or as the…
WHAT PRICE ART? Treasure your independent artist-run spaces, Cultivate is a maximalist punk rock gallery, we plan to crash and burn in style. What price art anyway? We’ve done it before, it proved very interesting – so interesting another London gallery claimed it as their own unique idea, “unprecedented for an art gallery” I think…
LATEST CULTIVATE GROUP SHOW ARTIST CALL ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS… The final show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, will be another affordable art flavoured event, a three week (evolving) show, a pre-Christmas retail opportunity because buying things lovingly created by artists is far better for your soul than thoughtlessly buying mass-manufactured mass-marketing…
ERROR MESSAGE 404, YOUR ART SPACE IS MALFUNCTIONING… You see that’s the frustrating thing about closing the space is that Cultivate, on the whole, is not malfunctioning, it does work – as a creative, evolving artist-run space it works, it isn’t perfect by any means, but it does work and it is a wrench to…
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