Where were we? Halfway through putting together three shows and preparing for the fourth and almost certainly final month-long Cultivate Columbia Road takeover, Shipton Street Gallery closes for at least a year and probably forever once we finish our Cultivate residency in March. We already have our strictly regimented grid-like very square opening two week…
Yulia Robinson at Cultivate, Shipton Street Gallery, London E2, November 2019 – A Yulia Robinson solo show with guests Diane Goldie & Caroline Sayer – The third show and the final part of the November Cultivate Columbia Road takeover was essentially a solo show from London-based painter Yulia Robinson. We do encourage artists to being…
Time to herd art again, we hadn’t intended doing anything for a while in terms of Cultivate, we intended focusing on our own work and our own paintings for the early part of 2020 and maybe put our Cultivate hats back on sometime in the summer. however, when we heard that beautiful old shop space…
I think it would be reasonable to say that the Nothing Is Square opening last Thursday evening, the second part of the latest month-ling Cultivate Columbia Road take over. went rather well. You can find quite a few words and a bag load of photos from both that show and the Chips, Starz, What Would…
We have an outburst coming up, a month of shows, another Columbia Road Takeover, three Cultivate shows that will take in all of November at East London’s rather well proportioned Shipton Street Gallery. The gallery, in a former greengrocer’s shop by Columbia Road, the Flower Market and everything that that involves and this time the…
These days, as you probably know, Cultivate in nomadic, you might say homeless, in some ways we kind of like it like that, we like popping up in different places and spaces, we like the excitement of different buildings, different streets, we might one day put down roots again but for now, while we…
The brilliant late afternoon light you get at this time of year in Hackney and East London makes it rather difficult not to think about the Autumn eight years ago when Cultivate first got off the ground. one of the very first (rather rushed) shows we put on was a group show called Red…
The 7th annual Art Licks Weekend starts on October 17th so we’re told. This year, the city-wide London event “takes on the theme of Interdependence, the importance of which is considered in light of increasing economic and political pressures”, personally as someone who has been involved in running an artist-;led London gallery for as long…
It might not look like it but we are very busy, busy juggling different hats and paint brushes and looking at weather reports, come on weather gods, one more weekend of glorious seaside sunshine please, some of us have hardly made it out of Hackney this summer! Whatever the weather the Art Car Boot fair…
We have some new Emma Harvey prints, some fresh new handmade prints, each one slight different to the last, the perfect way to do it. Some new Emma Harvey handmade A4 lino prints, “all A4 lino prints and all have eco glitter (biodegradeable, you get it from here)”. Two new Ponies Against Patriarchy prints (blue…
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