SPRING at CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET – A GROUP SHOW

Following on from the  rather successful Yeastie Girls show, Ten, and our latest Free Art Friday event,  SPRING is the name of our latest group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street. Spring is a simply-named, deliberately vague, title of our latest open-call group show.  As we feel the warmer days and fresh green of new shoots, we hope Spring will be a forward-looking painterly celebration, an anticipation of things to come, of the longer days and the greenness around the corner, of the new year finally coming to life…

Once again, in line with the open-door, open-gallery policy, on our very visible corner right in the middle of Vyner Street (no hiding behind great big unwelcoming unsigned always-closed black doors for us, we rather like the public to come in, we like to engage with people, to welcome, to include…), Once again, in line with the gallery policy, Spring is an open call group show for the first Thursday of March as well as the two weeks that follow….

We open on First Thursday evening, March 7^th and run through until 19th March.(usual gallery opening times)

Once again the title of the show was left deliberately vague and open to the interpretation and imagination of the artists invited to submit work.   We were thinking the fresh shoots of spring, lush painted canvas, greenness, ripeness, freshness, leaves, buds, flowers, life, green green green, fresh fresh, new threads, throbs.  The invite was thrown out to everyone, and once again we waited to see what the responding artists would submit – Cultivate is all about getting involved. We went through lots of submissions, debated the work and the artists, made our careful selections, and the result is, sixteen (mostly) London-based artists (from all over the world)m will share our space….

THE SPRING ARTISTS…

CAIT SWEENEY, DAVID DAVIES, ERNESTO ROMANO, HERVE CONSTANT, JANE WEBB, JESSICA BALLANTYNE, JULIA MADDISON, KAVITA SAGAR, MALINA BUSCH, MARGOT DAVIS SAPPERN, NADJA GABRIELA PLEIN, TRACEY MOBERLY, YUKI OTAKE, ZOE CROSSE, as well as gallery curators SEAN WORRALL and EMMA HARVEY…

We’re excited by the fresh mix of contributors we have, some artists will be familiar to Cultivate regulars, some are new to us and maybe you as well? We’re excited, we can’t wait to hang the show and open our doors, to welcome the new artists, our old friends, and the fresh art that hopefully excites you as much as us. Spring does excite us, First Thursdays excite us, new shows and opening our doors excite us, simple things like daffodils excite  us….

So SPRING opens this week, everyone is invited, we open at 6pm on Thursday March 7^th, we’re officially open until 9pm that evening (I expect we’ll be open much later, we always are on First Thursday s) Isn’t all about the opening evening though, the show runs for two weeks (before we change the art and open the next show – we don’t close, we haven’t for the almost eighteen months, and 50 odd shows, that we’ve been in the street  – Surely art galleries should not be exclusive elite places only available to the few? Surely one or two should be actually  open, buzzing, engaging places, doors open to everyone? SPRING opens this Thursday, No need to RSVP or get on a list , just turn up so what we have, see what the always rewarding Hada Contemporary have over the road, what Wilkinson have, or what Wayward and the rest have, always lots to explore down the ever evolving street  (bring your own drink, we’re artists, not gallery people here at Cultivate, we can’t afford to dish out free drink – bring daffodils, bring yourselves, bring your friends, go grab a free beer from the big gallery down the road, then come see us). Come say  hello, we’re right in the middle of the street, door wide open, lights on, right over the road from the Victory pub – surely you know where we are by now?. You don’t need lists and maps and official guide so you?

Cultivate, Vyner Street)

Some musical mood setters…..

Everyone Everywhere – a “Mega-spazzoid video mashup of the free compilation by our friends at Land Jugend. It contains some remains of each track off our 2006 free compilation! (you can still get the full-quality video for free here, just right click the link and save: http://www.the-landjugend.com/content… )”

All music on the video masg up can be grabbed from the always excellent  www.Cockrockdisco.com – a little quiet these days, go hoover it all up while you still can, one of our favourite labels of recent years…

Tracklist:for that last video…..
Food For Animals – Elephants
About Think Niles – Drink
Duran Duran Duran – Ralez
Dev/Null – GOblin
Next Life – Red Stone
Stunt Rock – Ripoff
Slepcy – The Ride
Audiogarde – Mardi Gras
Don Augusto – The House
Drumcorps – Saddest
Vorpal – Gymnopedie v1.01
Terminal 11 – Counter
Doormouse – Dizzay
Piss Tank – Punching…
Assdroids – Rite of Spring

More of this tomorrow, maybe….