The week of Fragile then, fragile things? The delicate juggling and the cross-pollinating of art and attitudes. Christophe Cachelin (the artist otherwise known as Kidd Feather when he has his musical head on) will be joining us again, a last minute addition t owhat we hope you’ll agree is a fine selection of creators, performers,…
October 17th 2016, the sun is out, the leaves are glorious, the Eleven O’clock pigeon is sitting by the door, the Debased show was three weeks ago now, the Debased group show marked five pretty intense years of Cultivate events and five non-stop years of organising, herding, promoting, occasionally fighting, five years of talking about…
A whole load of words, thoughts and images from the Cultivate takeover of BSMT Space gallery over at Dalston last weekend that just appeared over on our sister Organ blog page, wanted ot get some thoughts up as soon as possible, here’s a repost of what was said over on the Organ pages… Well that…
CULTIVATE DEBASED at BSMT Space 22-25 September 2016. Opening night: Thursday 22 September, 6pm until 9pm then open: Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September 11am until – 7pm each day. at: BSMT Space, 5D Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, London, N16 8BH CULTIVATE returns to Dalston and that beautiful basement knows as BSMT Space.…
Been a few days over five years since Emma Harvey and I started this Cultivate thing, we’ll we had been cultivating before that, the Stinging Netil fair, the Hundred Paintings show and such, but it was just over five years ago that we formally started Cultivate. The first four years were on that now infamous…
Last Thursday, September First Thursday was five years on from the birth of Cultivate, we didn’t make a big noise about it, we’re too busy getting on with the next shows and events, but here’s a piece I wrote for the Organ page… Five years on from that infamous September First Thursday with the naked…
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…
Wall And Jones, on the very busy Hackney Road, an old tailor’s shop on a street corner (just over the street from delightful fragrances of the Hackney City Farm and a stone’s throw from the flower pushers of Colombia Road). The two floors of the unassuming old shop has been the home, gallery and work…
This week Cultivate continues roaming around and popping up in all kinds of interesting places and spaces. Following on from recent Cultivate shows at BSMT Space and that Fount railway arch adventure, as well as that 43 minute thing under the railway bridge, this week we take ourselves over to a treasure chest of a…
This week the now nomadic artist-run maximalist gallery thing that is Cultivate will head back to the Fount space and that beautiful railway arch by London Fields, Hackney, London E8… On Tuesday morning, April 12th, a solo show of recent paintings from Sean Worrall called Sometimes They Have Thorns will open. The solo show will…
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