Eighty shows, events and such, two and a quarter years of non-stop cultivation on the corner, far too many artists to count right now, and tomorrow, it all stops. Sunday December 8th is the last day of us using the space in the way we have for the last twenty-seven months. Cultivate Vyner Street, as…
Well we’ve warned you artists several times now, we warned you on line, in e.mails, in private massages, via Facebook instant messages, in mailouts, via Twitter, via text message, I shall say I here again for one last time…”I;ll be there on Thursday” you said, you didn’t show (again), “Yeah, coming in on Saturday” you…
The THIRD and final ONE HUNDRED PIECED PIECE is all painted, numbered, and ready for December First Thursday at Cultivate 4th December, 2013 – THE THIRD (and final) 100 PIECED PIECE. 100 pieces of painted cardboard, all painted at the same time, all on cardboard found thrown out in Vyner Street, East London. This is…
Well First Thursday week and everything that First Thursday brings, is upon us once more. And as we’ve said before, do like the buzz that flows up and down the street as everyone gets ready – new shows installed, art (and alcohol) being delivered, frantic hangs and excited artists (if you can’t get excited…
ART IS FOR FRIDAY… and every other day. “Why do you ruin your paintings? They’re all ruined, you vandalise your own paintings, so silly” was my favourite comment today. Second week of the ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS show and the walls are evolving as pieces are sold and new art and…
Back in August we held a two-week show at Cultivate called WE ARE ALL SKATEBOARDERS. The reasons why we put on the show were well documented here at the time. The board of the heavily publicly funded London Southbank Centre,.with their very twisted (and frankly outrageously dishonest) PR spin, were divisively claiming the skateboard community,…
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CULTIVATE SPACE NEXT? AN ART CHUTE? AN ART SHOOT? WELCOME TO THE ART CHUTE…. Well I wrote a long-ass piece about the idea of an “art chute” and how to evolve the current Cultivate space into some kind of permanent collective base where a small group of committed pro-active artists work,…
Tuesday bloody Tuesday, still considering the notions of art chutes and why London-based artists don’t seem to want to get seriously involved in committed pro-active artist-run spaces. Said all this before though, and this week I really am enjoying the Katrine Storebo paintings we currently have in the gallery as part of the Art Is…
ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS – An affordable art event at Cultivate, Vyner Street – the show, is it a show? Is it an art event? An exhibition, an affordable art fair? A bit of all of those really, certainly being treated as a combination of all those elements by the people…
What is happening to Cultivate then? What is happening with our space down Vyner Street? Well as we’ve already said, the gallery, as you know it right now, is closing on December 8th, the artist-run gallery experiment has run its course now (see previous gallery blogs). We are currently exploring what we can do with…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 