And so we asked the question about doing it all again, well why not? This is the fourth Cultivate on-line art show of this strange fractured  year, three more than we had intended for 2020 – we think this is the 157th show since the idea of Cultivate came together halfway down Vyner Street here in East London some nine years ago. I’ve said all this already, but we are mostly about physical shows and art you can walk up to or roll around, about textures and smells and viewing art in the flesh as it were – we did ask the question about doing ii again and there is a valid space for on-line shows, we were doing this on-line thing way before Covid changed everything, these on-line shows are a useful addition..

And so we asked the question about doing it all again, more imortantly though, the question we’d like you to be asking as you look at these images of the art that we’ve carefully gathered together is, who are these artists? How big is that piece? What is it? Is it a painting? A collage? A print? An istalation? Who? What? Where? When?

The answers to those questions are all on the artists own websites. You see, we’ve gathered all this art together, artists from all over the land, all over the globe, we’ve taken a lot of time to select the images, taken time to “hang” the show in an order that makes it all flow and yes, we could go and carefully label each piece in terms of the size, the media and rest of that vital information you’d reasonably expect to find next to a piece of art in a physical show but the main point here – other than the point of just scrolling through the slide show and enjoying it all for what it is, an art exhibition – the vital point here is you get curious enough to want to know more about an artist or a piece of art, that you head for the list of links down at the foot of this page and you then head for the artist’s own website and you go find out more – that you go and explore their bodies of work, their thoughts, their news, their websites, that you go say hello (we artists do like to communicate, this is about engagement, art needs engagement). The point is that you do go follow their social media feeds of the artists, you go watch what they/we do next as artists. These on-line shows are intended as sets of signposts that point you to the artists, they’re intended as introductions, as doors that you just push open and go trough – what Emma and I are basically saying here is “hey, look, exciting artist, here’s the link, please go explore” – the links are the thing – we’re not giving you the details, we’re deliberately trying to get you to go explore..

So you have the art of 43 artists, Emma and I invited 41 fellow artists to come join us – abstract painters, performers, textile artists, print makers, installation artists, pro-active creators, feminists, landscapists, contradictors, activists, realists, we’ve invited them all to come and join us and be part of this latest Cultivate show. There is no theme, there was no brief, it was a simple case of inviting artists that excited us enough for us to want them to be part of the show. Some of the contributors will be familiar to Cultivate regulars, some of them new to Cultivate – new blood and cross-pollination is always very important, we are first and foremost artists. Cultivate is very much an artist-led thing, it is very much about artists coming together to make things happen – I could give you all the art talk and the wordery, but art is about looking not reading and frankly art-talk bores the hell out of me, artists who hide behind statements mostly leave me cold, the art itself needs to do the talking and the walking. So we’ve done it again, and why not?  Here’s the art, please do go explore an artists you don’t know about before, please do take the time. Thanks for coming here for a look, welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, so glad you could attend, come inside come inside, welcome to our latest Cultivate show, please enjoy….  (Sean Worrall, Cultivate, August 2020)

Please click on an image to enlarge or to run the slide show (and hey, a lot of work went it to both the art and show, please do look on a proper screen, not a damn tiny phone, do it properly, te art deserves more tnqa just a phone…)

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LINKS TO THE ARTISTS, do please use those links now, that is the real point here, the pointing you in the direction of some artists we hope you will go explore and connect with…

CULTIVATE

ANDREW HORNETT
ANGELA BELL
ANGELICA GUERRERO
BEN SNOWDEN
CAROLE THOMAS
CAROLINE REED
CATHERINE HALL
DIMITRA BOURITSA
EMMA CONNOLLY
EMMA HARVEY
FERGUS HARE
FRANCESCA ALAIMO
FRED FABRE
GRETA AYTO
GUY AUSTIN
HANNAH LINGARD
HANNAH SULLIVAN
JESSICA HILL
JEZELLA PIGOTT
LIDIA LIDIA
LIZ GRIFFITHS
LOUISA HAMMOND
LOUISE FOLLIOTT
LUCY OATES
LYNNE SHAW
MADELEINE STRINDBERG
MARION FLANAGAN
MARK BURRELL
MARNIE SCARLET
MEGAN THORPE
MOLLY KENT
NANCY COLLANTINE
NERISSA CARGILL THOMPSON
PAUL SAKOILSKY
PETER A LEIGH
POPPY JONES LITTLE
SEAN WORRALL
STEPHEN HENNESSY
SUZIE PINDAR
TARYN O’REILLY
TONY WELCH
YI ZHANG
VICTOR CUZMENCO

And that was it, a fourth on-line show during these strange locked-down times, well there be a fifth?  A big big thanks to anyone and everyone who has visited the exhibition, a big big thanks to all involved in the show. This exhibition, like the previous 155 Cultivate shows is brought to you with no help or support whatsoever from Arts Council England, although we would like to say thanks to Christa Harris at the Council for her personal interest in recent times.

And if you do feel like making a small donation – We bring all this art, music and underculture to you for free, we really don’t want to clutter up our pages with annoying adverts, no one wants that, but it does take up a lot of time, hours and hours of time. If you should feel like supporting Organ/Cultivate (for it is one in the same) by making a small donation to help keep all this flowing that would be delightful, thank you.