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 returns to Dalston and that beautiful basement known as BSMT Space in late September. In March it was Debaser and slicing up eyeballs, on September 22nd it will be Debased. Another gathering of pro-active artists and a maximalist exercise in cross-pollination. A room alive with contemporary painters, so-called street artists, performers, print makers and…
And so we went, off to the Hastings leg of the Art Car Boot Fair, theres a piece about it along with a bag load of reviews over on the Organ magazine pages, head over there via this link for the full story and the seagulls and the seaside and…. “Hastings then, off to the…
This is the news page and blog feed for Cultivate, mostly the thoughts from gallery curator Sean Worrall (and sometimes the contributions of co-founder Emma Harvey). This blog feed did come direct from the corner of the street where Cultivate physically existed for a number of years. Cultivate existed as a physical gallery right in…
The London leg of the 2016 Art Car Boot Fair happened last weekend, here the Organ review and the view from the Cultivate boot… ORGAN THING: Last days of Shoreditch? Nah, I loved being part of the Art Car Boot Fair yesterday…. If these are to be the Last days of Shoreditch then the East…
The Art Car Boot Fair season is upon us again, this year, the twelfth year I think, there are two official Art Can Boot Fair events. The London leg is this coming Sunday June 12th, and next month we’re all off to the seaside and Hastings. London is always the big one of course, and…
Wall And Jones, on the very busy Hackney Road, an old tailor’s shop on a street corner (just over the street from delightful fragrances of the Hackney City Farm and a stone’s throw from the flower pushers of Colombia Road). The two floors of the unassuming old shop has been the home, gallery and work…
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