Last week both Amy Kingsmill and Marnie Scarlet took part in the opening night of a group show or contemporary painters, performers, street artists, print makers and more, a show called Debased, curated by Cultivate, over at BSMT Space (Dalston, London N16) Both Marnie and Amy has appeared and performed at a number of Cultivate…
Dan Baldwin has a new show opening over at Maddox Gallery (Mayfair, London W1), opening night is October 4th, the show is called Under The Influence, no doubt the gallery walls will be alive with Dan’s vivid colour once more, we’ll leave you with this little taster and some blatantly cut’n paste style words from…
Organ Thing of The Day? Here’s a new Miguel Mendez song (and video), we’re still coming down after all the Debased activity of the weekend, Here, have a quick one, have this mellow piece of goodness and some words from Deathbomb Arc while we clean up. This is a track from the new album ‘Love…
Well that was quite an eventful weekend spent over on the edges of Hackney down in a Dalston basement at the foot of the Stoke Newington Road in amongst all the noise and people of N16. We’re in Monday morning recovery mode now and musing on all that went on, that was eventful! Big thanks…
Debased is almost upon us, we’re rather looking forward to it, I’m especially looking forward to seeing Ian Bailey’s work in the flash. This will be Ian’s debut in terms of Cultivate, he was last seen at the V&A where some of his beautiful hand-printed wallpaper was being on show.. Debased is a maximalist art…
This One is a Yorkshire man slowly painting his way through every wall in London, well rather rapidly actually, This One is a prolific street artist who’s tattoo-flavoured illustrative style kind of stands out on cluttered the walls he’s adding to. Unlike a lot of the current crop of London’s street artists This One‘s standout…
Monday morning, paint to throw, in-box busting with music submissions – “you’re gonna love this band, they’re right up your street” said the PR guy. No, we’re not! They sound like every other unremarkable personality-free indie-landfill band championed by the NME over the last twenty years, next…. We’re going to stick with the in-box and…
Clipping have a new album, this is a good thing, a very good thing, splendid indeed, no misery here. Splendor & Misery is the name of the cutting edge album, it came out earlier this week on Sub Pop, it smells like something or other. The Los Angeles outfit have been putting together some powerful…
Been a few days over five years since we 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 corner smack bang…
We’re coming up to art fair season, I have a love/hate relationship with the whole idea of art fairs, they can occasionally be good things when they’re done right. Art Fairs are very rarely are though all art shoehorned in, a badly lit hall or a million room dividers squashed into warehouse, art fair…
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