Those are some Richard Amor paintings up there, more on Richard in a moment. You’re right, 2025 was way way too quiet in terms of Cultivate, long gone are the maximalist days of Vyner Street now, gone are the days when East London was alive with the possibilities offered by empty or unwanted buildings, where…
Where were we? We asked that already didn’t we? Time to come out of hibernation? Spin around, a little bit more? Well why not, the Mixtape shows and the online exhibitions aren’t broken so nothing really needs fixing. Time to gather around the tips of bulbs and the shapes of things to come. You know…
Black Subjective will open next weekend, a solo show from London-based painter Yasmin Grant and her very powerful paintings built with lusciously painted golds, rich dark browns and yellows, deep dark blues that are almost but not quite the blackest of black… Yasmin is an artist we’ve been covering and featuring regularly over on the…
The 13 Questions thing again, the artist who likes to be known as Edgington this time. Edgington (b.1991) is a Midlands of England artist making “largely autobiographical works exploring mental illness, trauma and memory”. Born and raised in Rugby, Edgington now lives and works in Digbeth, Birmingham. Really don’t want to say too much here,..…
Yulia Robinson at Cultivate, Shipton Street Gallery, London E2, November 2019 – A Yulia Robinson solo show with guests Diane Goldie & Caroline Sayer – The third show and the final part of the November Cultivate Columbia Road takeover was essentially a solo show from London-based painter Yulia Robinson. We do encourage artists to being…
The sixth Cultivate/Organ on-line art exhibition, no need for words or editorial, here’s the art, go explore, the links and such are down at the bottom of the page, the numbers will guide you… do go explore the art and then go explore the websites of the artists and see what else they have. Hopefully…
“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…
Just found a video on Youtube, something from the start of the month, First Thursday and that in Rust We Trust MyDog Sighs and friends opening night when Los Dave bent some rusty wire and M-One painted a van or two. That Rust show has been covered more than enough in previous blogs but this…
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