Where were we? We asked that already didn’t we? Time to come out of hibernation? Spin around, a little bit more? Well why not, the Mixtape shows and the online exhibitions aren’t broken so nothing really needs fixing. Time to gather around the tips of bulbs and the shapes of things to come. You know about Mixtape No.9, before that we have a solo show from Madeleine Strindberg…

Stop press: The show is now open – Madeleine Strindberg – A Solo Show – An online exhibition opened on 25th February 2025 – The Link

Madeleine Strindberg is a rather exciting painter, a long (long) time resident of London, a graduate of the Royal College of Art as well as winner of the 1998 Jerwood Painting Prize. A regular in terms of Cultivate shows pretty much from the first days of Cultivate back in 2011. A prolific and dare we say rather unique rather special painter who so often seems to paint just the right piece at the right time, with everything Madeleine has produced in recent years, a serious solo show in a significant London Gallery is surely well overdue?  She was the Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in 1989. That same year she also won the GLC Peace Prize. In 1996, she was awarded the Abbey Award in Painting by the British School at Rome. She was one of the artists shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 1997. In 2000, she was once again on the shortlist for the Charles Wollaston Award but it surely is what Madeleine has been doing as an artist in more recent times that excites? That “ceaseless striving to attain meaning through unusual and experimental means” that sees her deliver again and again… (Sean Worrall)