ARTIST CALLS…. THE SPACE FORMALLY KNOWN AS CULTIVATE VYNER STREET IS EVOLVING. No more group shows and constant artists calls, time to refresh the space and do it a different way (see previous blog). No more artists calls besides this one… From 9th December 2013, the walls will be divided in to ten sections.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ARTIST CALL – TEN @ CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET, LONDON, E2 24th OCTOBER – 29th OCTOBER TEN is a series of ongoing shows at Cultivate. Once again we’re going to divide our walls in to TEN areas (with black tape) and invite TEN artists to take one area each Each wall section will be 1 metre…
YES, I KNOW WHERE BISTROTECHQUE IS Opening night: Thursday 26th September, then from: Friday 27th – 8th October 2013 (including October First Thursday) YES, I KNOW WHERE BISTROTECHQUE IS. is to be a two week long text based art show, we would like a room full of text-based art, words, letter forms, type, typography,…
Artist calls, Cultivate is all about getting involved, we are picky about what we hang on our walls or place on our plinths, it does have to be right, but it is about artists being proactive and being involved on artist terms (rather than the unreasonable terms of agents and galleries). We have a number…
