Welcome to Mixtape No.8, once again, just like last time, we’ll let the art do the walking and most of the talking first rather than clutter the top of the page with words or introductions. There are some thoughts down at the bottom of the page, under the actual art, along with those oh so vital links. Please do scroll to the foot of the page for those all important links to all the artists. The links are the vital things once you’ve explored the art in this exhibition, these Mixtape shows are all about you finding something that makes you want to go to the artist’s websites and find out more…

Mixtape No.8 is the latest group show from Cultivate, once again curated by Cultivate founders Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall. Please do go explore, go find out more (and yes, there is a Spotify playlist again as well)

What about the labels? What are you looking at? Is it a drawing, a photograph, a painting? Go and find out, you are essentially looking at a digital image of a piece of art, not the real thing. Who are these artists? What do they do?  How big are these paintings? How small are these pieces? Where does the artist come from? Does she have a show coming up? Where is he exhibiting next?  What do they think? What are you looking at? This time we’ve only labelled the pieces with the artist’s names, nothing more, none of the other clutter, the aim is to make you go to their websites to find the answers, go to their social media, get on their mailing lists, go follow them, this show is your doorway, please go through it.   

IMPORTANT: Please do click on an image to enlarge it and see each piece of art 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, surely the art deserves more than just a tiny phone, it was put together with a decent computer screen in mind… Thank you

Repeat. We would really like to say it one more time… We would really like to think, or maybe hope, just as we said last time (and the time before), that it is all as simple as us just saying hey, here’s some exciting art and here’s the links to the artists, off you go, go explore (please), go find out more (just as you would with that mixtape of music your friend made for you)

We really would like to think it was or is that simple. This is the 49th on-line exhibition from Cultivate and we think, if we’ve counted it right, something like the 196th Cultivate art show in all. Once again this Exhibition is brought to you by Cultivate founders Sean Worrall and Emma Harvey, once again we invited our fellow artists to join us and once again we invite you to explore the art and artists we’ve gathered from all over the land and indeed the globe.

Of course, if you are interested in finding out more or indeed, interested in buying art from any of the artists, you should please go speak to them directly via the links, that is all between you and the artist and nothing to do with us, we were just making the connections, we’ve done our bit, we’ve made the introduction, now go have a delicious affair with the art or maybe the artist.

We enjoy putting these exhibitions together, we are very picky, we’ve gone through hundreds of pieces, we said all this last time (and the time before), we like that it forces us to look at other people’s art a little bit more, that it makes us explore people just a little more, that we’re forced to get to know the artists who make the art just a little more than we probably would if we weren’t curating these shows. Art excites and I hope that this exhibition excites you. It doesn’t really matter about the detail here, it doesn’t matter about the size or if the painting is in oil or the paper the print is on, not right here, not in terms of this show, and we don’t need a whole load of art talk and dancing around the architecture of it all for this is a simple on-line show and everything is flat, everything is the same size.

I said this already up there, but what about the labels? Why just the artist’s names? What are you looking at? Is it a drawing, a photograph, a painting? Go and find out, you are essentially looking at a digital image of a piece of art, not the real thing. Who are these artists? What do they do?  How big are these paintings? How small are these pieces? What is the medium? Where does the artist come from? Does she have a show coming up? Where is he exhibiting next?  What do they think? What are you looking at? This time we’ve only labelled the pieces with the artist’s names, nothing more, none of the other clutter, the aim is to make you go to their websites to find the answers, go to their social media, get on their mailing lists, go follow them, this show is your doorway, please go through it.   

Thank you… (sw)

And as this show is called Mixtape, a mixtape of art and artists if you will, there is also a Spotify mixtape playlist

LINKS TO THE ARTISTS

CULTIVATE

YASMIN GRANT
WOLFGANG WOERNER
TONY ANTROBUS
TIM FAWCETT
SUZAN ELIF SELCUK
STEPHAN ZARMANN
SEAN WORRALL
SANDRA KERR GORDON
SANDRA BERTI
SADIE HENNESSEY
OLIVIA MARY BIRCH
NON WORRALL
MELIKE
MARY T. SPENCE
MARK BURRELL
MADELEINE STRINDBERG
LIZ GRIFFITHS
LENNIE LEE
LAURA MARS
KIRSTEN REYNOLDS
KIKA SROKA-MILLER
KATHERINE LUBAR
JEREMY SCOTT
IRIS KUFERT-RIVO
GINA CROSS
FIONA STANBURY
EMMA HARVEY
EDGINGTON
DECLEN PATTEN
DAVID CAINES
CRISTIANA CANZANESE
CLAUDIA RAMPELLI
CLARA LEMOS
ARTHUR ROBERTS
AMELIE BOURBOIN
AJ BRAVO
AGATA CARDOSO

Do please use these links now, that is the real point here, the pointing you in the direction of some exciting artists we hope you will go explore and connect with (The links will mostly take you to the artist’s Instagram feeds, artists tend to keep their Instagram pages more up-to-date and they do have more links on their Instagram feeds)

And yes we did reverse the alphabetical order, some of us have had enough of always being down at the end of lists every single time

And that was it, a 40th on-line exhibition and something like the 196th 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. A big thanks to all the Artists who have participated in this and previous exhibitions And we would like to point out that none of the artists were charged a submission fee or anything else, we strongly object to galleries who charge artists to take part in things like this, everything here was done for free, all those hours and hours of work…

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.

Coming next? Well we don’t know, well we do, do stay tuned, there will be more on line shows, meanwhile here, here’s a mixtape including music from Mary Mousetrap who might well be Olivia Mary Birch. You can also find a number of songs from bands, Cay, Huge Baby, Cardiacs, Dream City Film Club, that were originally released on ORG Records (Sean’s label back there)