The third Mixtape exhibition is now open, the first of our Spring Season of online shows. A group show featuring 36 artists, some familiar to Cultivate followers, some new to these shores. Here’s a flavour, the show can be viewed over on the Organ website via this link . We’ll explore some of the artists…
. February is here, is that a tiny bit of a hint of Spring in the air? We’re ready to go with our much trumpeted Spring series of on-line Cultivate shows, our Spring season, time to bypass the gatekeepers and the tedious art school chips once more. Let’s Create as the slogan goes, walking it…
Melike is based in Istanbul, Turkey (originally born in Samsun in 1980), if I remember correctly, another artist told her about Cultivate and she got in touch, or was it us who made first contact with her having seen something on a social media feed? I really can’t remember now, I do know she has…
The open call element of our next Cultivate group show, Mixtape No.3, is very very much open at the moment. We do like open calls and we are very vocal about the open call policy and especially in terms of the cynical practice of charging and exploiting artists in terms of so called administration fees…
Spent the morning going through all the submissions so far from the next Mixtape show (well the one’s we hadn’t already responded to), had some good art in from a painter based in Cambridge today, and from an artist working in Brazil, I do keep saying we like the way this on-line shows take us…
We’re off and running, new year, more activity, more looking beyond the London bubble, more shows, more on-line exhibitions for we like the way our on-line shows reach out around the land and the globe to artists like Melike over in Turkey, or Sarah Jones over in Worcestershire or that artist from Manchester or Shrewsbury…
Now we posted this little piece on the Organ website back at the very end of December 2021 in a piece that also featured Five pieces of art – Wawi Navarroza’s beautifully stylised photographs, Wayne Thiebaud’s cakes, Kayla Mahaffey, Martha Cooper, and Petro alongide Madeleine Strindberg’s paintings… and here we are now at the end…
The end of the year, we could look back, it was, even though were were still recovering from the blows dealt by Covid and the various lockdowns, it was a positive year. We could look back but we’d rather look forward and get going with 2023. We’ll be back at the start of February with…
Milly Aburrows is a rather exciting rather colourful artist, she’s one of the artists participating in Mixtape No.2 and she’s just become the seventeenth artist to answer those 13 questions we like to fire out now and again, you can find Milly’s answers and more over on the Organ website, here’s the link – 13…
Where were we? As busy as always here beneath the calm. I think we can say the Mixtape group shows of October and November went rather well, as did the Three x Three shows, positive engagement from all over the country and indeed the globe, I know I keep saying it but I do like…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 