The two clear and obvious messages we’ve managed to gather from our mostly failed attempts to communicate with the still rather aloof Arts Council England over the last couple of weeks are, whatever you do don’t ever try to be in any kind of way “self-sufficient” and please don’t attempt to stand on your own…
Just got an e.mail from an artist, a very reasonable request, clarity is always a good thing, for the sake of clarity and to keep you all far far away from the turmoil, here is where we stand right now… On 18/05/2020 12:08, an artist we won’t name wrote: > Hi Sean, > > hoping…
The exhibition is now open and ready to be viewed, hosted on the Organ website via this link ORGAN: Cultivate presents (Far from the) Turmoil, an on-line art exhibition…
Opening on Thursday evening, 8pm UK time, Thursday 14th May, following on from the success of the #43Artists exhibition, an eighth on-line show and the 155th in all from Cultivate, hosted on the Organ website, watch this space The ongoing matter of showing art, opening doors, engaging, involving, evolving. (Far from the Turmoil will…
Art in these times of lockdown and social distancing and galleries with doors even more firmly closed than they so often were in the time before the virus. virtual Journeys on line and zooming around and what we look at dictated to by whoever is holding the camera doesn’t really work. Badly lit virtual tours…
There’s another in the occasional series of 13 Questions interviews on Cultivate’s sister-website Organ, fresh from taking part in our #43Artists show, the fine artist known at Girl Shit is the latest to be subjected to Organ’s Thirteen Question interrogation Read the Girl Shit interview here, you can also explore thirteeen question interviews with artists…
Part one of an occasional series, Three Photos from the Cultivate Archive – the time film maker Mia Pfeifer launched a film at the gallery while a group show called Something Blue opened inside the space. The first time performance artist Marnie Scarlet appeared at Cultivate and the those red honey’-covered me from the very…
What is Arts Council England actually about? On this page you can see shots from various Cultivate shows from the last seven or eight years, mostly shots of people at our shows rather tha njust the art. Cultivate is an artist-led space run myself Sean Worrall, and fellow artist Emma Harvey. We’ve put on over…
“Thank you for making the submissions *****, have to be honest, the paintings look interesting but not really working as flat lifeless images on a computer screen, we did say with the open call that we were really looking for a sense of the painting being a painting hanging on the wall, a sense of…
The recent Cultivate Gallery on-line show #43Artists will have been live for two weeks at 8pm tonight, has now been viewed by just over 40,000 visitors since it opened back on the evening of April 2nd. The show that features, as you might expect, 43 artists, and just over 250 pieces of work can still…
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