I think it would be reasonable to say that the Nothing Is Square opening last Thursday evening, the second part of the latest month-ling Cultivate Columbia Road take over. went rather well. You can find quite a few words and a bag load of photos from both that show and the Chips, Starz, What Would…
We have an outburst coming up, a month of shows, another Columbia Road Takeover, three Cultivate shows that will take in all of November at East London’s rather well proportioned Shipton Street Gallery. The gallery, in a former greengrocer’s shop by Columbia Road, the Flower Market and everything that that involves and this time the…
These days, as you probably know, Cultivate in nomadic, you might say homeless, in some ways we kind of like it like that, we like popping up in different places and spaces, we like the excitement of different buildings, different streets, we might one day put down roots again but for now, while we…
The brilliant late afternoon light you get at this time of year in Hackney and East London makes it rather difficult not to think about the Autumn eight years ago when Cultivate first got off the ground. one of the very first (rather rushed) shows we put on was a group show called Red…
The 7th annual Art Licks Weekend starts on October 17th so we’re told. This year, the city-wide London event “takes on the theme of Interdependence, the importance of which is considered in light of increasing economic and political pressures”, personally as someone who has been involved in running an artist-;led London gallery for as long…
It might not look like it but we are very busy, busy juggling different hats and paint brushes and looking at weather reports, come on weather gods, one more weekend of glorious seaside sunshine please, some of us have hardly made it out of Hackney this summer! Whatever the weather the Art Car Boot fair…
CURRENT OPEN CALLS: But please do read the policy on open calls on the open call page OPEN CALL: Nothing Is Square is mostly a group show featuring invited artists, but Cultivate is also about new blood and opening doors, we are very very picky, but it is important that new artists or artists we…
