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…
Reveal opened last night, an art show in a railway arch. I think we can claim it went rather well, not time for words today, off to open the show for the weekend… We open 10.30am until 6pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday, here’s some imagery…. click on a photo to enlarge or run the slide…
if you missed it yesterday when it went out live, the News Agents radio show interview where talking about Cultivate, the London art scene, the beauty of Huge Baby, running a record label, painting leaves (that some may see in other ways), art drops, affordable art, exclamations, artists being proactive and doing it themselves, Peter…
First Thursday then, for the last thirtyseven in a row, my First Thursday was spent on a busy corner halfway down Vyner Street, frantically Cultivating. Haven’t been able to get out and properly explore an East London First Thursday for over three years now. First Thursday for me was always about just heading out and…
FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT:: From September 1st 2011 until October 5th 2014, the space and idea known as Cultivate operated on a corner on Vyner Street (Bethnal Green, East London). The space was operated as a rather full-on artist-run challenge of a gallery. The sometimes rewarding, sometimes infuriating space was run, on a daily…
And then… The last ever group show on our corner down Vyner Street will open on September 25th, run until October 5th I’LL BE BACK IN FIVE MINUTES….. One last cool as flip explosive salon hang of a group show at Cultivate and down the thing we know and love(d) as Vyner Street, one more…
We Are Three was an excellent celebration of something that really had no right to last three years, or at least had no right to survive against all the odds for three years in Vyner Street. Cultivate was never just about Vyner Street of course, we’ve always made that very clear and this week we…
Just sent out a mail out to those signed up to the gallery mailing list, here’s what it said…. CULTIVATE: WE ARE THREE AND TONIGHT WE CELEBRATE 6pm until sometime after 9pm, tonight, Thursday 4th September 2014, Vyner Street, East London, bring yourselves, bring some refreshment, bring friends, tonight we celebrate That’s right, we opened…
Right then, First Thursday at Cultivate and down Vyner Street is almost upon us once more, extra special one this time, WE ARE THREE. That’s right, it was three years ago this week we (Emma, myself and a small gang of helpers) frantically opened and here we are, three years later, battle-scared but still doing…
WE ARE THREE: A celebration of three eventful years of CULTIVATE in Vyner Street, Eat London. A show opening on SEPTEMBER FIRST THURSDAY and running for one week Three years of Cultivate in Vyner Street. Come celebrate the achievement of being here doing it non-stop for three full-on years. WE ARE THREE features the art of…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 