it seems I shall be putting on my suit and tie and giving a presentation/talk and taking part in this discussion in Colchester at the rather expansive looking Firstsite Gallery tomorrow. Rather keen to visit the gallery and see the current exhibition Firstsite invited me to take part in the discussion which in itself has…
Cultivating, are we still cultivating? Yes we are, we’re talking our time, finding the right space, but we will be back, meanwhile Emma Harvey is painting and so am I, painting as well as working my way through the year-long piece of work that is the #365ArtDrops. Emma has just taken part in a show…
Well we had a great time at the Victoria Park dog show yesterday. The invitation to take part was a follow up to our Cultivate collaborations (well mostly Emma Harvey’s collaborations) with All Dogs Matter for the dog-themed Brick Lane Art Car Boot Fair earlier this year. Yesterday we spent the day in the sunshine…
This Friday night Cultivate co-founder Emma Harvey features as part of a group show called Glorious Shame. The show runs from September 18th until October 16th at Gallery X over in Dublin (Ireland) The show is called “Glorious Shame” and is brought to you by the Hysterical Woman collective – “Scandalous secrets are revealed and…
We shall be taking a Cultivate art stall to the All Dogs Matter Victoria Park Dog show this coming Sunday (September 20th). Open doors and engaging and being part of the local community has always been an important part of Cultivate, we did some work with All Dogs Matter at this year’s Art Car Boot…
Some thoughts on the Margate leg of the Art Car Boot Fair from the Organ pages, the review went up a couple of days after the event. We had a great day… REVIEW: ART CAR BOOT FAIR, MARGATE, AUGUST 30th 2015. A little bit more than an hot dog… A day at the The Seaside…
Cultivated? Well of course, but are you Organised? We blog about Cultivate related things here – event, shows, Cultivate artists, we blog about art, music and many other shades of underculture over on the Organ pages. Here’s one from a couple of days ago; Organ Thing: Start the riot, painter Kim Leutwyler, activist Ollie Henderson…
Where? What? Who? when? Haven’t posted here for a bit, been busy “dropping” things and such. I don’t know, I thought the Play show was a positive thing, an exciting thing, a defiant thing. it felt like a last stand in so many ways, the last playground, the end of a big chapter (we were…
Summer holiday time, I see some of those galleries and organisations who really should know better are once again turning to their artist cash cows to pay for their holidays again. I’m getting to a point now where I’m starting to think well it serves you artists right. How much does it cost to open…
RIP ISH – We’re really really broken up to learn of the news of of the passing of the always larger than life energy force that was and always will be Ish (one of the people behind Lay Lo). As co-conspirator Charlie Mcfarley has just pointed out, the LayLo night indeed was one of the…
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