Organ is something that’s been around in one form or another for twenty-nine and a bit years now, these days Organ takes the form of a no thrills (almost daily) blog. It started life as a hand made hand screen printed zine, it has taken the form of a giant flyposter, an issue was printed…
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,…
ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS – An affordable art event at Cultivate, Vyner Street – the show, is it a show? Is it an art event? An exhibition, an affordable art fair? A bit of all of those really, certainly being treated as a combination of all those elements by the people…
The latest Cultivate newsletter just went out to those who are on our mailing list, for those of you who aren’t, here it is…. Well let’s see, Cultivate, what’s happening at our beautifully messy East London artist-run gallery space half way down Vyner Street? What’s happening at our beautifully messy East London artist-run gallery space…
RE-UP DAY FIVE/SIX – Tuesday November 5th – The on-going daily Re-Up blog. Bang bang, build a bonfire, fireworks? The art of burning canvas? Nah, enough raging against the art machine and the conservative apathy and lack of do-it-yourself-fueled get-up-and-go of most artists (other than so called street artists who roll in a whole different…
RE-UP Day 4: Sunday November 3rd – we were half way through the eight day show when the paint started to take hold, just past Barstow (or was it Bethnal Green?). The bats were in the street and, well, every now and then, when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the…
RE-UP will be a spontaneous group show, a one week replenishment… ,and one more FIRST THURSDAY…. Time for a re-up, a re-think, a slice of spontaneous combustion or at least a slice of crash and burn, some attitude, some spontaneity before the walls finally crash in on us! Come on, tale a jump outside your…
The third in our ongoing series of TEN shows opens at Cultivate, Vyner Street on Thursday the 24th October… Here’s a taste of the artists you’ll find occupying our walls, plinths and such this time around… JOANNA GEORGIADES is a London-based artist working in portraiture and landscape, she uses gestural and kinetic marks to build…
GARETH MORGAN‘s solo show PRISM opens at Cultivate next week (Thursday October 17th, 6pm – 9pm). Ahead of Prism, here’s an on-line look back at some previous Gareth pieces that have adorned our walls…
Council vultures, they don’t like culture, them and sticking out like a soar thumb plain clothes policemen and women who could have got the answers to their clueless questions with a quick five minute poke around the web rather than taking up big chunks of our busy time last Thursday evening – “what’s all this…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 