Today is most about the wearing of Cultivate hats and juggling art and artists. Cultivate and Organ are closely related of course. We have two online exhibitions happening in early October, the first being our latest Three x Three show
Back in the early days of Cultivate, back a dozen or so years ago, we ran a series of shows called “Three x Three” where we gave one of the three gallery walls to an artist, three artists sharing a wall each in the gallery. I think we did four Three x Three shows, we had some exciting artists on the walls, artists like Ben Fenton, My Dog Sighs, Charlie McFarley, Paula MacArthur, Tom Banks, Merlin Ramos. The fourth show was back in May 2012. Ten years on, we thought we’d bring the idea back as part of our Autumn series of Cultivate on-line shows and now twelve years on from those original shows we’re about to open the 9th Three x Three show
The idea is simple, three artists who might not obviously fit together but then again three who just might be a rather obvious fit. an exercise in cross pollination. Just three artists that we (we being Cultivate founders Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall) are rather excited about at the moment. Three artists who might have taken part in recent Cultivate group shows or indeed who may never have taken part in anything Cultivate shaped. Three artists sharing a carefully cultivated on line show with c curated selection of work from each of them.
Both Emma and I have taken a break from Cultivate over the Summer to focus on our own painting, we have been solidly Cultivating for a dozen or so years now, I think we earned a short break. We have been curating on line shows alongside our physical Cultivate shows for a number of years now (no it wasn’t a lockdown thing, but the numbers viewing our shows did shoot up dramatically during the days of Covid, the numbers still visiting post-lockdown tell us there is certainly a place for on-line shows). We are intending to be mostly focused on our own work for the rest of the year, however we do plan a season of Cultivate on-line shows for the Autumn, a busy season of group shows, Three x Three shows, solo shows and more
Once again the Autumn season of exhibitions will be hosted on the Organ website. Organ is something that started life back in Sean’s art student days of the last century, over the years Organ has been a hand made zine, a glossy magazine, a rather respected alternative record label, a TV show and quite a lot more, these days Organ is mostly a very busy website visited by thousands of people from all over the world every week.
The first of the new Three x Three shows, “Three x Three Part 9” will open at 7pm UK time on Tuesday 1st October.
Find all the previous Cultivate online shows here
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