The Art Car Boot Fair season is upon us again, this year, the twelfth year I think, there are two official Art Can Boot Fair events. The London leg is this coming Sunday June 12th, and next month we’re all off to the seaside and Hastings. London is always the big one of course, and…
Some trumpet blowing cut and pasted, Pritt Stick style, from the pages of Organ… Debaser opened on Thursday night over at BSMT Space, Dalston, London, N16, the rain was pouring, the people still poured in and we really can’t be blowing our own trumpets on this one for Debaser is a Cultivate show. Cultivate is…
Here’s a piece that appeared over on the Organ pages a little earlier today…. “Pass me my trumpet, I need to blow it, it is my trumpet, I can blow it if I want to! Debaser opens this Thursday, eyes will be sliced, only by the thorns though. Got me a movie, I want you…
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…
We do rather enjoy taking part in the Art Car Boot Fair, both the out of town events, recently in places such as Liverpool, Folkestone and last year by the sea in Margate (I do believe the destination is Hastings this year) and of course the main event in that delightfully unique car park in…
Where? What? Who? when? Haven’t posted here for a bit, been busy “dropping” things and such. I don’t know, I thought the Play show was a positive thing, an exciting thing, a defiant thing. it felt like a last stand in so many ways, the last playground, the end of a big chapter (we were…
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,…
PRESS RELEASE: CULTIVATE presents PLAY, A MAXIMALIST ART EVENT @ LONDON FIELDS, E8 Cultivate presents PLAY, a two day maximalist art event in a great big beautiful shell of a soon to be demolished warehouse, just by London Fields, London, E8. Saturday 6th June (1pm until 9pm) / Sunday 7th June (10am until 6pm) Gransden Avenue,…
The Play show is coming together nicely, here’s an updated artists confirmed so far list for the London Fields show at the start of June… Alexandra Unger, Charlie Mcfarley, Danny Pockets, Darren Coffield, Deborah Griffin, Emma Harvey, Flora Deborah, Glenn Fitzy Fitzpatrick, Hugo Von Hugo, India Roper Evans Jimmy C, Julia Maddison, John Lee Bird,…
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…
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