Not wanting to deflect anything, or indeed explain anything, has it been five minutes yet? We were busy doing other things and well, you all needed a break from us. We’re feeling refreshed again now, ready to go again. We’ve been busy with our own art, locked in studios while our curating hats gather dust…
We’ll be back in five minutes….
We only really realised twenty two hours ago that it had been ten years this week, I mean, we were vaguely aware, we had been thinking about it, if we should mark it? How we should mark it? Indeed was it worth marking? An awful lot has gone into those ten years, a lot of…
Meanwhile, over on our sister website Organ, the non-stop coverage of art and the London art scene goes on on a daily basis. Things that you might feel like exploring, non-Cultivate things, mostly East london things for that is where we are. Here’s ten links to recent highlights ORGAN THING: Sam Nicholson at Gallery 46,…
“When is the next on line show?” you ask again and again, we well could do it again, there were lots of positives to the on-like shows and we did enjoy inviting so many of our fellow artists to join us. We could do it again, we cold put together an Autumn programme of on-line…
Eight Years ago this week when the Southbank Undercroft down by the river was under serious threat of closure and redevelopment. We cancelled the show we had in place that month and that First Thursday (back when First Thursday was still a thing and put a last minute show called “We Are All Skateboarders” as…
Ten years on, the seeds that germinated, the thing that led, later in the year, to Cultivate. The Stinging Netil happened here in Hackney on this very weekend ten years ago, I just wrote a piece and dug out a whole load of photos and put them up on our sister Organ website We really…
The Saturation show has now been open for almost seven days, it opened last Tuesday evening, another on-line group show, we’ve curated six of them, one a month ,six very busy shows during a rather fractured 2021 and the eleventh since we opened the #43Artists show back at the start of this Covid-ravaged period. We…
The show is now open – Cultivate presents Saturation, an on-line art exhbition, the show ca nbe viewed via the pages of Organ – An on-line art exhibition… 37 artists, something like 200 pieces of art….
The full line up for the next on-line show is now complete. The Show, the latest in a line of what have been monthly on-line shows during 2023, will open on Tuesday 22nd June, once again hosted on the paged of Organ magazine, another 37 arists gathered from all over the land and indeed the…
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