Fragile then, these are fragile times, that wasn’t the reason for calling this third and final show in the trilogy of shows from Cultivate over at BSMT Space in Dalston. Someone just said that I should be out protesting rather than worrying about art shows. Maybe so? He argued this was not a time to…
Fragile? nothing fragile here, everything is fragile here. We’ve been keeping a low profile, avoiding the end of year must flog some art panic, art is for life not just for Christmas, get us to the other side already. We might look like we’re not busy, we are though, serene above the waterline, feet kicking…
October 17th 2016, the sun is out, the leaves are glorious, the Eleven O’clock pigeon is sitting by the door, the Debased show was three weeks ago now, the Debased group show marked five pretty intense years of Cultivate events and five non-stop years of organising, herding, promoting, occasionally fighting, five years of talking about…
Last week both Amy Kingsmill and Marnie Scarlet took part in the opening night of a group show or contemporary painters, performers, street artists, print makers and more, a show called Debased, curated by Cultivate, over at BSMT Space (Dalston, London N16) Both Marnie and Amy has appeared and performed at a number of Cultivate…
Debased is almost upon us, we’re rather looking forward to it, I’m especially looking forward to seeing Ian Bailey’s work in the flesh. This will be Ian’s debut in terms of Cultivate. he was last seen at the V&A where some of his wallpaper was on show Debased in about cross-pollination, about artists who probably…
Debased is almost upon us, we’re rather looking forward to it… CULTIVATE DEBASED at BSMT Space 22-25 September 2016. Opening night: Thursday 22 September, 6pm until 9pm then open: Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September 11am until – 7pm each day. at: BSMT Space, 5D Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London, N16 8BH CULTIVATE…
Debased, the latest Cultivate group show, opens at BSMT Space gallery over in Dalston (London N16), this coming Thursday…. . “This is about taking art and artists out of those comfortable little boxes that the London art scene appears to need, mixing things up, messing with the rules – a wallpaper printer (currently hanging in…
Been a few days over five years since Emma Harvey and I started this Cultivate thing, we’ll we had been cultivating before that, the Stinging Netil fair, the Hundred Paintings show and such, but it was just over five years ago that we formally started Cultivate. The first four years were on that now infamous…
Dogs, they all matter. We started working with the excellent All Dogs Matter charity at the 2015 Art Car Boot Fair. The 2015 Art Car Boot Fair theme was dogs, something that has been taking up quite a slice of Emma Harvey’s life since she rescued a rather distressed dog. We invited All Dogs Matter…
Last Thursday, September First Thursday was five years on from the birth of Cultivate, we didn’t make a big noise about it, we’re too busy getting on with the next shows and events, but here’s a piece I wrote for the Organ page… Five years on from that infamous September First Thursday with the naked…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 