“Hi Sean, I hope you are well. I’m contacting you on behalf of a-n The Artists Information Company regarding a piece I’m writing on open submissions. I’ve just been reading your post on Cultivate Vyner Street and wondered if you would like to contribute to the article by answering the following questions?” said someone called…
First Thursday then, for the last thirtyseven in a row, my First Thursday was spent on a busy corner halfway down Vyner Street, frantically Cultivating. Haven’t been able to get out and properly explore an East London First Thursday for over three years now. First Thursday for me was always about just heading out and…
M is for Maddison, McFarley, My Dog Sighs, MOB, Mildenhall and more… G is for the Glue Bucket incident and… F for Flexhed, Fenton, Folkestone, Fitzpatrick, Fitzgerald, Free Art Thursday and Friday and…. S is for Shoes in The Gallery, Stinging Netil, Six One Six, Madeleine Strindberg, Tim Skinner, the Spring show, Suck and….…
What’s happening now down on that corner in Vyner Street then? The official launch of the Project Space AKA Street Corner Galley, the Vyner Street space that formally housed Cultivate, will happen on the first Thursday of November. Now for the complete avoidance of doubt, this is NOTHING to do with us, we’ve vacated the…
The subject of artists being asked to pay just to simply submit examples of their art via an e.mail in the hope of maybe being selected to take part in a group show has reared its ugly head again this week. This is a subject that has been on our minds quite a lot in…
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