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…
FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT:: From September 1st 2011 until October 5th 2014, the space and idea known as Cultivate operated on a corner on Vyner Street (Bethnal Green, East London). The space was operated as a rather full-on artist-run challenge of a gallery. The sometimes rewarding, sometimes infuriating space was run, on a daily…
Right then, First Thursday at Cultivate and down Vyner Street is almost upon us once more, extra special one this time, WE ARE THREE. That’s right, it was three years ago this week we (Emma, myself and a small gang of helpers) frantically opened and here we are, three years later, battle-scared but still doing…
WE ARE THREE: A celebration of three eventful years of CULTIVATE in Vyner Street, Eat London. A show opening on SEPTEMBER FIRST THURSDAY and running for one week Three years of Cultivate in Vyner Street. Come celebrate the achievement of being here doing it non-stop for three full-on years. WE ARE THREE features the art of…
Where were we? Not on holiday, that’s for sure, art does not go on holiday. Art Does Not Go On Holiday is our current show at Cultivate Evolved, it is in part a tongue in cheek dig at those more formal galleries that seem to delight in closing down and heading off on vacation…
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,…
At the end of last year we evolved the space (and indeed the name) and Cultivate became Cultivate Evolved. We changed it, well tweaked it, just over two years in to what was only ever going to be six months in Vyner Street – For two years we ran a non-stop parade of group shows,…
The last throws of June, the final throws of Used Boots and Panties as well as a goodbye to our current guest artists Omar Obaid and Kidd Feather – all change at Cultivate again (it always is all change at Cultivate), Omar and Mr Feather vacate their walls, take away their swans and their eggs,…
CULTIVATE EVOLVED, The last few weeks in photos… click on an image to enlarge or run the through May so far…. Cultivate Evolved in a maximalist artist-led art space, you either get it or you don’t. We don’t do neat artist statements and formal presentation, we jsut get on with it, and it is what…
80 images from March First Thursday at Cultivate Evolved…. March 6th 2014, Vyner Street, East London….
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 