And so Explore happened, fourteen artists and another Cultivate exhibition, this time in a rather marvellous space called Free The Gallery over in Crystal Palace. From my point of view as both participating artist and curator it was quite a frantic long weekend, well a bit more than just a long weekend, these things don’t…
These are two of Jeremy Scott’s paintings that recently figured in our Mixtape No.10 on-line group exhibition, Jeremy Scott is a London-based painter who says he is interested in people, ‘place’, and ‘space’. Jeremy is one of the fourteen artists taking part in Explore this coming weekend. Explore is a group show brought to you…
Where were we? The non stop operation and the need to do it our way and not by the book as worshipped by those who just did a degree in how to hang a show that they just want to invite their mates to. We want everyone at our shows, not just our mates we…
Our Spring 2026 series of online exhibitions goes on, the fourth and latest of the shows, Mixtape No.10, another of the Mixtape group shows, this one featuring 37 artists, has just opened. Once again the show is hosted on the Organ magazine website so head over there to explore it all and then go hit…
And on we go with the Spring series of online exhibitions and week three and a third show, the latest Cultivate Three x Three exhibition, the tenth has just opened, once again hosted on the Organ magazine website. This time we invited three people who have featured in quite a few of our recent Cultivate…
The second of the Recent Work online solo shows just opened, once again, rather obviously featuring recent work from one of our regular artists, last week it was Edgington, this week Mark Burrell with 36 images of recent pieces of work. Once again the exhibition is hosted on the Organ magazine website and once again…
And the first Cultivate online show of 2026 and the first of our “Recent Work” series of exhibitions is open. Featuring Cultivate regular and Birmingham-based artist Edgington with 43 images of recent pieces of work, the show is once again hosted on the Organ magazine website, as are all the Cultivate online shows. Explore Edgington…
Time to wake things up for 2026? We’re almost ready to go again, I think we are, almost refreshed, almost… The first physical Cultivate show is booked for the Spring, meanwhile we’re ready to get going with more online shows, there tenth Mixtape group show will be along in March, before that a series of…
Those are some Richard Amor paintings up there, more on Richard in a moment. You’re right, 2025 was way way too quiet in terms of Cultivate, long gone are the maximalist days of Vyner Street now, gone are the days when East London was alive with the possibilities offered by empty or unwanted buildings, where…
The 199th Cultivate event, our latest Mixtape on-line group exhibition, opens tonight, 7pm (UK time), tonight being Tuesday 25th March 2025. Here’s the line up and the show poster. The link will appear here as soon as the show is open. 36 carefully selected artists and over 200 pieces of art waiting to be explored…
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