Welcome to the latest Three x Three exhibition, the ninth. Once again just three artists sharing our space, this time two rather figurative and one a little more abstract. There’s more words about the show and the artists involved down under the actual art, we need the art to do the talking before anything else. Please take a look at the art first and then if you feel like it, read the editorial and find those vital links and more about the three artists at the foot of the page (it is about the links).
The Three x Three shows are hopefully very simple, three artists invited to share our space, invited to share space with each other. This time we invited three people who have featured in quite a few of our recent Cultivate group shows, Edgington, Francesca Alaimo and Melike. Three artists who have been exciting us for a good few years now, it is with great pleasure than that we, as Cultivate, present the three of them together in this latest exhibition.
Please do click on an image to enlarge it and to see the whole piece of art, kind of vital that you do that actually, best to click on the first image and then to run the whole slide show. And please do bare in mind our shows are best viewed on a decent sized computer monitor rather than just a small (and somewhat disrespectful) phone. Thank you.
The editorial/Exhibition statement bit…
And that was, we think, the 38th Cultivate on-line exhibition. A big big thanks to anyone and everyone who has taken the time to visit the exhibition, a big big thanks once again to the three artists involved.
This is our latest Three x Three exhibition, the ninth, there’s a touch of background in terms of this series of exhibitions here.
Now we could have gone through every image and given you label details, size, medium, date and the title (and yes titles can be very important), but this really is about giving you a flavour and sending you off (via those links down there) to find out more, it is about you heading to the artist’s website and following them on social media and then hopefully going t osee soem of this work in the flesh. You don’t need sizes and details today, you just need a taste don’t you?
Another carefully curated on-line show and something like 195th Cultivate exhibition or event in the now twelve (or is it thirteen years of evolving history. Three x Three (Part Nine) is once again an invitation extended to three artists, Edgington, Francesca Alaimo and Melike, to exhibit together, the show is once again curated by Cultivate founders Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall. These Three x Three shows are about artists sharing spaces, artists who we think might compliment each other, or who maybe contradict each other, who may or may not be comfortable bedfellows. These shows are about cross pollination, about space and time shared, about three artists who are currently exciting us, this time two rather figurative and one a little more abstract.
The first four Three x Three shows happened during our Vyner Street period, a wall each handed over to an artist in our almost triangular shaped East London corner space, artists such as Ben Fenton, My Dog Sighs, Paula MacArthur, Charlie McFarley, the much missed Ish Sahotay and quite a few more. The last physical Three x Three show happened in 2012, the reviving of the format was well overdue, and yes, with Cultivate now being nomadic this ninth Three x Three show along with all the shows since the fifth one are all happening on line (we expecy the tenth one will as well)
We like on-line shows, we like that they reach out beyond our London bubble, that artists and viewers from all over the land and indeed the globe can take part in our shows, that we can include artists from North Wales or West Yorkshire or Brazil or San Francisco or Manchester as well as artists from Hackney or Camberwell, we like being more than just a London thing. We’re rather enjoying this Spring season of Cultivate on-line exhibitions.
The Artists
Edgington (b.1991) is a Midlands of England artist making “largely autobiographical works exploring mental illness, trauma and memory”. Born and raised in Rugby, Edgington now lives and works in Digbeth, Birmingham. I can’t recall where we first encountered Edgington’s work, on line somewhere as is the way, I do know, like all three artists in this exhibition, the rather powerful work did make an immediate impact, here’s a small feature we did – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: The largely autobiographical work of Edgington, his bold mark making, his line, a Birmingham-based painter who’s exciting us right now…
Francesca Alilmo is a long time London-based artist who I do believe is originally from Rome. It has been an absolute pleasure to show some of Francesca’s very personal work both physically and online as part of Cultivate shows in recent times. Francesca’s are brave paintings, big paintings, big in terms of what they say, in terms of how they say it, they are positively inspiring paintings, here’s a review of a very recent solo show that I hope tells you more – ORGAN THING: Francesca Alaimo, Gender Translucence and Other Stories at Farsight Gallery, London – Art as a positive, art as a force for good, just a really good show and for so so many reasons…
Melike lives and works in Turkey, Melike is a rather exciting painter, a rather pro-active mixed media artist, born in Samsun, Turkey, in 1980, an artist who’s energy excites us, love her movement. We’ve been aware of Melike and her work since March 2021 when she first took part in one of our Cultivate online group shows, she feels like she’s a big part of what we do now, she is the first artist to figure in a Three x Three show twice and we never do a group show without her now, here’s an interview we did early last year – – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Melike is a rather exciting painter, a rather pro-active mixed media artist…
Links
Edgington – Find more Edgington via Instagram or his Linktree.
Francesca Alaimo – Instagram / website / Gender Translucence
Melike – Instagram / website / Linktree / The Cultivate solo show
Cultivate – Website, Facebook, Instagram, Emma Harvey / Sean Worrall.
Find all the previous Cultivate online shows here
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Coming next? Well the eighth Mixtape online group show is on the way on October 8th and I expect we’ll be thinking about more online shows and physical show in the coming Autumn.
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