Debased is almost upon us, we’re rather looking forward to it… CULTIVATE DEBASED at BSMT Space 22-25 September 2016. Opening night: Thursday 22 September, 6pm until 9pm then open: Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September 11am until – 7pm each day. at: BSMT Space, 5D Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London, N16 8BH CULTIVATE…
Last Thursday, September First Thursday was five years on from the birth of Cultivate, we didn’t make a big noise about it, we’re too busy getting on with the next shows and events, but here’s a piece I wrote for the Organ page… Five years on from that infamous September First Thursday with the naked…
Cultivate returns to Dalston and that beautiful basement known as BSMT Space in late September. In March it was Debaser and slicing up eyeballs, on September 22nd it will be Debased. Another gathering of pro-active artists and a maximalist exercise in cross-pollination. A room alive with contemporary painters, so-called street artists, performers, print makers and…
And so we went, off to the Hastings leg of the Art Car Boot Fair, theres a piece about it along with a bag load of reviews over on the Organ magazine pages, head over there via this link for the full story and the seagulls and the seaside and…. “Hastings then, off to the…
This is the news page and blog feed for Cultivate, mostly the thoughts from gallery curator Sean Worrall (and sometimes the contributions of co-founder Emma Harvey). This blog feed did come direct from the corner of the street where Cultivate physically existed for a number of years. Cultivate existed as a physical gallery right in…
The next Cultivate show will happen at BSMT Space over in Dalston. The group show will open on Thursday evening March 24th, more details via the Facebook event page. We’re not about grand manifestos or statements or cultivating a new whatever, we’re about proactive artists just getting on and doing it “Cultivate presents an…
Reveal opened last night, an art show in a railway arch. I think we can claim it went rather well, not time for words today, off to open the show for the weekend… We open 10.30am until 6pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday, here’s some imagery…. click on a photo to enlarge or run the slide…
Revealing new things. Reveal, the first Cultivate event of 2016. Opening on Thursday 7th January at 6pm and running until 6pm Sunday 10th January, in an East London railway arch by London Fields, Hackney, London E8. A collection of artists invited to exhibit on the very white walls of an East London Railway arch while…
Well we had a great time at the Victoria Park dog show yesterday. The invitation to take part was a follow up to our Cultivate collaborations (well mostly Emma Harvey’s collaborations) with All Dogs Matter for the dog-themed Brick Lane Art Car Boot Fair earlier this year. Yesterday we spent the day in the sunshine…
CULTIVATE presents PLAY: @ LONDON FIELDS, E8 – A maximalist art exhibition in a warehouse… Play happened last weekend, something like forty-three or so artists gathered together under the umbrella of Cultivate. I think we ended up with forty-three artists? We haven’t done a final count yet, couple of no-shows, couple of last minute additions,…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 