WE ARE THREE…. And indeed we are! Three years of defiantly doing this thing we do. Cultivate first burst in to life on a dramatic First Thursday back in September 2011. We took on the space on the Wednesday, put an artist call out that night, got the keys at 3pm on the Thursday afternoon,…
At the end of last year we evolved the space (and indeed the name) and Cultivate became Cultivate Evolved. We changed it, well tweaked it, just over two years in to what was only ever going to be six months in Vyner Street – For two years we ran a non-stop parade of group shows,…
WHY I LOVE CULTIVATE-ING It is and has been fantastic to have the continued opportunity to exhibit my art at Cultivate gallery on Vyner Street over the past three years. As the space has evolved into ‘CULTIVATE EVOLVED’ (since January 2014) with the wall space sliced into ten sections, I now have an entire section…
Ah, the benefits of summer and fetes worse than death and the notions of a better Woolworths and thanks to everyone who braved both the oppressive heat and the inconsiderate rainstorms and came along to both the opening of Little Summer Benefits last Thursday as well as A Fete Worse Than Death last Saturday. Saturday…
Second leg of this year’s Art Car Boot Fair happened last week (or was it the week before, things are busy around here, time is flying, art is cooking) as part of the Liverpool Biennial. it happened in a rather atmospheric car park (beautiful walls to hang art on) in Wolstenholm Square, next door to…
Where were we? Liverpool was a great adventure, sunshine and dazzle ships, the positive of the double negative and lots of good people in the sunshine – good to go Cultivating outside of (East) London. July First Thursday was almost as as frantic as ever, well frantic in terms of getting it all hung…
Where were we? Liverpool was a great adventure, July First Thursday was as frantic as ever, the sun has been roasting us down Vyner Street, Little Summer Benefits opens this Thursday evening, a two week show that we’ll tell you about in another blog in a minute or so. This Saturday, Cultivate is closed in…
The last throws of June, the final throws of Used Boots and Panties as well as a goodbye to our current guest artists Omar Obaid and Kidd Feather – all change at Cultivate again (it always is all change at Cultivate), Omar and Mr Feather vacate their walls, take away their swans and their eggs,…
LATEST ARTIST CALL at CULTIVATE EVOLVED – LITTLE SUMMER BENEFITS 2014 The by now annual LITTLE SUMMER BENEFITS wall for 2014 will last for two sunny weeks, it will go up on July 16th and open on Thursday July 17th. An affordable art event and a fund-raiser for our artist-run gallery space, the Little Summer…
MIDSUMMER AFFORDABLE ART WEEKEND AT CULTIVATE EVOLVED… Busy busy busy, no sleep ’till…… not had time for blogs and news, too busy doing ot be talking and writing about the doing…. Art Car Boot Fair and First Thursdays and Julia’s Used Boot take over of the corner and new guests Kidd Feather and Omar Obaid…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 