Right now our guest space at Cultivate Evolved is occupied by one large piece of work from JULIE CAVES. Originally from the Southern part of the United States, Julie Caves is a rather bold contemporary artist, currently living and working in North East London. You can find Julie’s rather refreshing yellow work on our wall…
ART IS FOR FRIDAY… and every other day. “Why do you ruin your paintings? They’re all ruined, you vandalise your own paintings, so silly” was my favourite comment today. Second week of the ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS show and the walls are evolving as pieces are sold and new art and…
Tuesday bloody Tuesday, still considering the notions of art chutes and why London-based artists don’t seem to want to get seriously involved in committed pro-active artist-run spaces. Said all this before though, and this week I really am enjoying the Katrine Storebo paintings we currently have in the gallery as part of the Art Is…
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…
What is happening to Cultivate then? What is happening with our space down Vyner Street? Well as we’ve already said, the gallery, as you know it right now, is closing on December 8th, the artist-run gallery experiment has run its course now (see previous gallery blogs). We are currently exploring what we can do with…
LATEST CULTIVATE GROUP SHOW ARTIST CALL ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS… The final show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, will be another affordable art flavoured event, a three week (evolving) show, a pre-Christmas retail opportunity because buying things lovingly created by artists is far better for your soul than thoughtlessly buying mass-manufactured mass-marketing…
ERROR MESSAGE 404, YOUR ART SPACE IS MALFUNCTIONING… You see that’s the frustrating thing about closing the space is that Cultivate, on the whole, is not malfunctioning, it does work – as a creative, evolving artist-run space it works, it isn’t perfect by any means, but it does work and it is a wrench to…
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…
I could be wrong, I could be right…. Re-Up day 3, Saturday November 2nd, 2013 Day two and three of the “re-up” experiment was received with curious interest by our gallery visitors both regular and new – people who had deliberately come to see what it is all about as well as the people who…
Coming next at cultivate, the PRIMARIES show, opening this Thursday evening and running for two weeks, a room full of selected art dominated by one of the three Primary colours… Pretty self explanatory I should hope, work of a red nature, a blue nature in indeed a yellow nature,,, And then in December, the second…
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