RE-UP Day 4: Sunday November 3rd – we were half way through the eight day show when the paint started to take hold, just past Barstow (or was it Bethnal Green?). The bats were in the street and, well, every now and then, when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the…
I could be wrong, I could be right…. Re-Up day 3, Saturday November 2nd, 2013 Day two and three of the “re-up” experiment was received with curious interest by our gallery visitors both regular and new – people who had deliberately come to see what it is all about as well as the people who…
RE-UP will be a spontaneous group show, a one week replenishment… ,and one more FIRST THURSDAY…. Time for a re-up, a re-think, a slice of spontaneous combustion or at least a slice of crash and burn, some attitude, some spontaneity before the walls finally crash in on us! Come on, tale a jump outside your…
The third in our ongoing series of TEN shows opens at Cultivate, Vyner Street on Thursday the 24th October… Here’s a taste of the artists you’ll find occupying our walls, plinths and such this time around… JOANNA GEORGIADES is a London-based artist working in portraiture and landscape, she uses gestural and kinetic marks to build…
Council vultures, they don’t like culture, them and sticking out like a soar thumb plain clothes policemen and women who could have got the answers to their clueless questions with a quick five minute poke around the web rather than taking up big chunks of our busy time last Thursday evening – “what’s all this…
Last month’s First Thursday was shut a little early, last month’s First Thursday marked two years of Cultivate in Vyner Street , here’s some thoughts on Two, on two years and last month’s First Thursday…. So the Two show came and went, Two, a two week group show marking two years of Cultivate in Vyner…
This week’s view from the frontline, well the line somewhere down the middle of Vyner Street (where the battle line with the council are the anti-fun police are really being unhelpful right now). This week we’re considering notions of the street – NOTIONS OF THE STREET is a one week show featuring the work of…
TWO at Cultivate, a word or two about the artists we invited to be involved… (if we say naked and undressed in the tittle, we get far more hits….) BECKY BOSTON’s stylish work first came to our attention at Cultivate via the feminist group exhibition, Show Your Face, put on my London-based all woman art…
The weekend after next, we take Cultivate to the OPEN EAST festival as part of another Art Car Boot Fair event, Saturday and Sunday 26th and 27th July, 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, East London. “On the first anniversary of the London 2012 Games, the north of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park opens for…
The tenth annual Art Car Boot Fair is upon us, it all happens this Sunday June 9th, it happens in a cat park just off Brick Lane, East London,. it starts at midday and goes on until 6pm. A car park full of boots, a lot of classic Vauxhall cars (for they are good enough…
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