Add titleIt was such a massive massive (massive!) relief to actually get to hang a painting or two on an actual white wall… It was such a massive massive (massive!) relief to actually get to hang a painting or two on an actual white wall after all this time! X Marks The Spot and a…
The 2020 Art Car Boot Fair is almost upon us, and as you’d expect with all that is happening right now, things are a little different this year. In past years we have been at the Art Car Boot Fair as Cultivate, in past years Emma and I have invited others to join us under…
We hadn’t planned for a fourth on-line show in 2020, then again any plans we did have for 2020 went out the gallery window ages ago. We did actually start running on-line shows alongside the physical gallery shows back in 2017, well before this damn covid thing infected everything. We were always going to curate…
Start of August, glorious sunshine, where are we? What is going on? Some start of the month thoughts on the what, where, when and the why not do it all again? People are calling us and asking about new physical shows, when will we back? Will we ever be back? “Come on, the virus is…
Nice piece about Cultivate during lockdown on the Curator Space website today, Curator Space is one of the more positive sites in terms of working artists wanting to connect up with artist-led galleries and such, we always post our Cultivate Open Calls of their website, we’ve found quite a few exciting artists via the site.…
The full artist line up for the (And with good) Reason show that open’s tomorrow night, looks like this… AMY ROBSON, ANNABELLE RICHMOND-WRIGHT, BEN FENTON, BRETT BANKS, DAN BROUGHTON, EMMA HARVEY, FERGUS HARE, GIRL SHIT, HARRY MARTIN, HELEN SHULKIN, IZZIE BEIRNE, JAMES HALLINAN, JAMES JOHNSTON, JEREMY MORGAN, JESSICA HILL, JOHN GATHERCOLE, KAREN BEATTIE, KATYA GRANOVA,…
A piece that originally ran on the Organ website Cultivate presents Insert (Title Here) at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2, March 2020 – Insert (Title Here) opened last night, a group show that brings together six artists, mostly painters, although the plinths have been handed to self-declared “Artist, taxidermist, antiques collector and fetishist” Mia Jane…
Cultivate presents Insert (Title Here) – Opening night Thursday March 12th, 6pm until 9pm. Everyone welcome, none of that get on a list or give us all your details annoyance, none of that jumping through hoops just to get in nonsense. Entry is free, just turn up, bring some drink if you wish, come look…
We have an outburst coming up, a month of shows, another Columbia Road Takeover, three Cultivate shows that will take in all of November at East London’s rather well proportioned Shipton Street Gallery. The gallery, in a former greengrocer’s shop by Columbia Road, the Flower Market and everything that that involves and this time the…
I wrote a piece for my own website yesterday, a piece about this year’s Art Car Boot Fair, I’ll reproduce it here, it is relevant to Cultivate and the boot I will be sharing with Emma Harvey and Quiet British Accent this year We were 43 days away from the 2019 Art Car Boot Fair…
