“Thank you for making the submissions *****, have to be honest, the paintings look interesting but not really working as flat lifeless images on a computer screen, we did say with the open call that we were really looking for a sense of the painting being a painting hanging on the wall, a sense of…
CUTIVATE presents OVER AND OVER – A Group show at Shipton Street Gallery, Columbia Road, London E2 – We shall be back at Columbia Road, the people, the flower market and all that that involves in April, Over and Over will open on Thursday evening April 18th (2019) and then run over two weekends in April,…
“The Hackney Pomegranate (No.1) February 2019. Acrylic on found wooden board, 21cm x 15cm. “The Hackney Pomegranate (No.1)” February 2019. Acrylic on found wooden board, 21cm x 15cm and “The Ridley Road Lemon and The Hackney Pomegranate” (February 2019). Acrylic on found wooden board, 30cm x 20cm. were both painted at the end of last…
The open call element of the Attract show, the first group show of 2019, is open until Thursday December 20th, hopefully the open call is very simple. Really not sure how much easier we can make it? The next Cultivate group show opens on January 17th, the show is a mixed media multi discipline contemporary…
Oh the pleasures of running an open call and being on the receiving end of it all. Now we’ve been very loud and vocal here about out policy in terms of open calls and how they work, the complete and utter cynical scam that is the pay a gallery a fee just to submit a…
And so Something Black went live at 6pm UK time on Monday April 24th, live via the Cultivate website as well as the Organ website. We ended up selecting 65 artists and featuring 177 pieces or images or shots, I say we this time it was me, (Emma was really busy were her on-going series…
The notion of an exhibition with a formal opening time and such is a curious one when that exhibition happens to be happening on-line rather than in a conventional white-walled building…. The experiment that is Red opened just over twenty-three hours ago, so far it has been viewed on-line via both the Organ website and…
it seems I shall be putting on my suit and tie and giving a presentation/talk and taking part in this discussion in Colchester at the rather expansive looking Firstsite Gallery tomorrow. Rather keen to visit the gallery and see the current exhibition Firstsite invited me to take part in the discussion which in itself has…
The subject of artists being asked to pay just to simply submit examples of their art via an e.mail in the hope of maybe being selected to take part in a group show has reared its ugly head again this week. This is a subject that has been on our minds quite a lot in…
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