We only really realised twenty two hours ago that it had been ten years this week, I mean, we were vaguely aware, we had been thinking about it, if we should mark it? How we should mark it? Indeed was it worth marking? An awful lot has gone into those ten years, a lot of…
Eight Years ago this week when the Southbank Undercroft down by the river was under serious threat of closure and redevelopment. We cancelled the show we had in place that month and that First Thursday (back when First Thursday was still a thing and put a last minute show called “We Are All Skateboarders” as…
The Saturation show has now been open for almost seven days, it opened last Tuesday evening, another on-line group show, we’ve curated six of them, one a month ,six very busy shows during a rather fractured 2021 and the eleventh since we opened the #43Artists show back at the start of this Covid-ravaged period. We…
Coming next from Cultivate, on we go with the (now monthly) on-line exhibitions. More very soon. Whatever the situation with Covid and Lockdowns and physical galleries, and whatever the aloof Arts Council might say, we see these on-line shows as being rather positive. We like the way we can bring artists together from all over…
We’re busy working on a programme of on-line shows that will run throughout 2021. At the moment, in terms of Cultivate, we don’t really know when we will be back with physical shows, the on-line shows over the last 12 months have been rather successful though, so whatever happens with covid and lockdowns and getting…
Start of February, we are still getting on with a busy programme of on-line shows, I expect they will happen at least once a month is 2021 for as long as we can keep things going. ReCultivate opened in January, Self will happen in February and Alright? will take place in March. We’re also working…
Cultivate is mostly funded, especially now during this ongoing extended period of lockdown and lockdoors, by the sales Emma and I make ourselves as artists. All the time spant dealing with the open calls and putting together the on-line shows is funded from the sales of our own art. Most years we’d be well in…
We just sent out our first Gallery mailout of the year, if you’re not on the mailing list or you missed it, here’s what we had to say… CULTIVATE UPDATE: Our first show of 2021 is now open, ReCultivate features the work of 35 carefully selected artists. This is the start of Cultivate’s tenth year,…
A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters…
The ReCultivate on-line exhibition is now open and ready to be viewed on the Organ magazine pages via this link
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 