Coming next at Cultivate, this Thursday night, SILENT STEPS a group exhibition of photography. That’s right, this week us paintheads at Cultivate have handed over our walls to a group photographers, let’s see what they serve up…. kind of excited to see what they hang and how they hang it, the pieces we saw before…
Coming up in December at Cultivate… ART IS FOR LIFE: NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS (The Return) We’re heading toward that dangerous time again, that time where galleries fill up with tinsel and mulled wine, and as Malcolm McLaren once almost certainly said, “why the hell not?” From First Thursday 6th of December, until close of…
I guess the answer, once more, is do it yourself, A couple of things going on elsewhere, one right over the road, one up there in Newcastle… Both pieces of wordery taken in a cut ‘n paste manner from the born yet again no thrill pages of Organ, the Cultivate in-house on line publication –…
Jeeez, I guess I shouldn’t really be that shocked, but did we really just have a so-called London-based art journalist ask us to pay her to write (what I assume would be positive) “critical reviews” of our shows at Cultivate? Reviews that she would then post up on the sites of various on-line publications that…
So what have we been doing at Cultivate in the last couple of weeks then? Well if you haven’t been following us on Facebook, then Other social networks are apparently available and last month’s show (and very busy opening night, no doubt boosted by invites sent out via social media) does throw a lot…
What are we doing today? Have some of then THEM WOLVES while we consider it. while we consider the day (and the weekend) of our celebration of the celebration of DIA DE LOS MUERTOS or the DAY OF THE DEAD at Cultivate. I can just put a link or two to some decent music here now…
Just found a video on Youtube, something from the start of the month, First Thursday and that in Rust We Trust MyDog Sighs and friends opening night when Los Dave bent some rusty wire and M-One painted a van or two. That Rust show has been covered more than enough in previous blogs but this…
Busy day in the gallery yesterday, amongst the many visitors, comments, conversations )and giggles at the names of Emma Buggy’s sculptures) had a very enthusiastic man who said he was almost relieved to see a gallery brave enough to show some actual painting. Heard similar comments to this several times in the last couple of…
And meanwhile outside on the street
And because of the 2.8 Days zombie things and the celebration of the Day of The Dead celebrations, as explained in the previous blog entry, the Primaries group show at Cultivate has now been moved until the end of November. ARTIST CALL: PRIMARIES @ CULTIVATE COME GET INVOLVED We have another artist call, this one…
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