Part one of an occasional series, Three Photos from the Cultivate Archive – the time film maker Mia Pfeifer launched a film at the gallery while a group show called Something Blue opened inside the space. The first time performance artist Marnie Scarlet appeared at Cultivate and the those red honey’-covered me from the very…
These days, as you probably know, Cultivate in nomadic, you might say homeless, in some ways we kind of like it like that, we like popping up in different places and spaces, we like the excitement of different buildings, different streets, we might one day put down roots again but for now, while we…
Okay, so things have been a little quiet since the adventures and the seaside treats of Folkestone, all the ponies sold straight away of course and a fine day was had by all. You can read lots more about Folkestone via the Organ pages and the link comng up underneath the first image… ORGAN THING:…
Now technically this isn’t a Cultivate thing, but in so so many ways it is a Cultivate thing, our Hackney Wick neighbours are getting all WickED again this weekend, time to celebrate art, artists, spaces and communities…. Hackney WickED is upon us again, an artist-led event (or series of events), an annual weekend of events that…
Lucinda Rogers – animation still Here ar Cultivate we make no apology for our anger about the way the artist community and the galleries, studios and engaging community were forced out of East London’s Vyner Street a couple of years ago, a specia lstreet lost to the greed and inflated ego of one rather obnoxiously…
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…
RIP ISH – We’re really really broken up to learn of the news of of the passing of the always larger than life energy force that was and always will be Ish (one of the people behind Lay Lo). As co-conspirator Charlie Mcfarley has just pointed out, the LayLo night indeed was one of the…
if you missed it yesterday when it went out live, the News Agents radio show interview where talking about Cultivate, the London art scene, the beauty of Huge Baby, running a record label, painting leaves (that some may see in other ways), art drops, affordable art, exclamations, artists being proactive and doing it themselves, Peter…
2014 then, what are we to make of all that? End of the year or just another day coming to an end? It does bookend things neatly, well it does this year. 30th December right now, we spent yesterday clearing out the old Cultivate building, it all comes down in January, will they pull it…
First Thursday then, for the last thirtyseven in a row, my First Thursday was spent on a busy corner halfway down Vyner Street, frantically Cultivating. Haven’t been able to get out and properly explore an East London First Thursday for over three years now. First Thursday for me was always about just heading out and…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 