This time things are taken in house for a bit of internal blowing of rather dented battle-hardened trumpets. The first of what will be a Spring series of Cultivate on-line exhibitions. We’ll be along in a moment with more from our fellow artists, This Spring we start in house, Cultivate is an artist-led thing and first and foremost we are working artists and yes, sometimes we blow our own trumpets. 

A solo show from Cultivate co-founder Sean Worrall and the ongoing matter of leaves left, art drops if you like, leaves (or whatever you wish to see, no one is right or wrong, some see leafhearts, some see other things). The leaving of leaves has been going on for many years now, paintings on found unwanted waste material picked up off the street (that is an important part of it, making use of unwanted waste). Material found, cleaned up, painted on and then left hanging back out there (on old nails or screws that were already there waiting) for people to just take should they wish to.  We think there has been over three thousand leaves left now, mostly in London but they do end up going all over the world with their finders who then use the #43Leaves hashtag on the back of each piece to post their own images on social media or connect directly (that is another very important part of it, the engagement).  

The leaving of leaves is an ongoing matter, it happens all the time, one here, one there, it never stops, there is however sometimes a more formal exercise, like the declaration that 43 would be painted and left in January 2024. This exhibition is a documentation of the leaves left hanging in the gloomy light of a London January, 43 paintings left hanging mostly on East London home ground for people to just take. As far as we know they have all been taken, engagement from the finders, subsequent visits the places they were left. They’ve gone to Merseyside, the South of France, Yorkshire, one is now in Watford, several stayed in London, one was reported as now hanging in a cafe. Here, in the often half-light of January, are images take on a camera phone by the artists as the pieces were left… Sometimes art needs to happen outside of a formal gallery. (sw)

IMPORTANT: Please do click on an image to enlarge it and see each image in full or to run the slide show and do please please please view it all on a decent sized monitor, something more respectful than just a damn phone for gawdsake,,,

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CULTIVATE / SEAN WORRALL

And that was it, a 35th on-line exhibition and something like the 192nd Cultivate show in all.  A big big thanks to anyone and everyone who has visited the exhibition, a big big thanks to all involved in the show.

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Coming next? Well we are heading int oSpring 2024, I expect there will be more as the daffodils take over. Next up, a solo show from lens based artist Sofia Martins Gray and then maybe the seventh in an ongoing series on Mixtape group shows?