The next Cultivate show will happen at BSMT Space over in Dalston. The group show will open on Thursday evening March 24th, more details via the Facebook event page. We’re not about grand manifestos or statements or cultivating a new whatever, we’re about proactive artists just getting on and doing it “Cultivate presents an…
There’s some Organ magazine coverage of the Reveal show here, week on from the show now and we still have smiles on our faces (if putting on art shows doesn’t make you smile then why are you doing it?). Big thanks to everyone who came along to our first Cultivate show of the year, we…
I like what they’re trying to do in Colchester, I like the fact that, whatever may have happened already, the Firstsite people are trying to reach out and be inclusive, to involve people, to be for the people, to welcome people, to engage with people. Art spaces really do need to engage, they don’t need…
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…
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…
if you missed it yesterday when it went out live, the News Agents radio show interview where talking about Cultivate, the London art scene, the beauty of Huge Baby, running a record label, painting leaves (that some may see in other ways), art drops, affordable art, exclamations, artists being proactive and doing it themselves, Peter…
What’s going on Cultivate wise|? Well the book is quietly flowing, more on that soon. The old building is being torn down along wit the heart and soul of the city and we’re working on new spaces and events… Meanwhile, while we work on a new spaces ourselves 9and books), the #365ArtDrops goes on,…
“Hi Sean, I hope you are well. I’m contacting you on behalf of a-n The Artists Information Company regarding a piece I’m writing on open submissions. I’ve just been reading your post on Cultivate Vyner Street and wondered if you would like to contribute to the article by answering the following questions?” said someone called…
The subject of artists being asked to pay just to simply submit examples of their art via an e.mail in the hope of maybe being selected to take part in a group show has reared its ugly head again this week. This is a subject that has been on our minds quite a lot in…
And then… The last ever group show on our corner down Vyner Street will open on September 25th, run until October 5th I’LL BE BACK IN FIVE MINUTES….. One last cool as flip explosive salon hang of a group show at Cultivate and down the thing we know and love(d) as Vyner Street, one more…
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