Cultivate presents Melike – an online art exhibition…

Melike is a rather exciting painter, a rather pro-active mixed media artist, born in Samsun, Turkey, in 1980, an artist now firmly based in Istanbul. 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 (can’t recall if she contacted us…

ORGAN THING: George Henry Longly’s Microgravities at Nicoletti, a new body of work down East London’s Vyner Street, that explores life in space if that pushes your buttons…

George Henry Longly, Microgravities at Nicoletti – Caught this one last weekend, been meaning to say something, something to do with an increasingly misguided loyalty to an increasingly fractured East London Art Scene and the feeling that it surely is still worth the time and effort taken to cover it?  “Microgravities is a solo exhibition…

ORGAN THING: Sasha Stiles, Binary Odes at Annka Kultys Gallery. A brave new story, or is a beautifully poetic take on an old one? Whatever the point (missed), a rather recommended art exhibition once more…

Sasha Stiles – Binary Odes at Annka Kultys Gallery –  Where were we? Back along the increasingly unfriendly Hackney Road, avoiding the new gatekeepers and heading for the industrial park around the back where the Annka Kultys Gallery now hides. Annka Kultys Gallery is one of the more reliable galleries on this side of town,…

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…

The 13 Questions thing again, the artist who likes to be known as Edgington this time. 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.  Really don’t want to say too much here,…

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Things – Rod Harman at Campbell Works, Tanoa Sasraku at Peer, Short-term pleasure at Public Gallery, Recursion at The Split Gallery, Gallery No 32’s Winter Sculpture Park and…

Never mind that, that was then, this, once again is about this week and next and cake and yes, the annoying frustration of or with so much of it so far this year, getting past that art school bs floating in the river right now, a lot of hype, some rather aloof attitudes, galleries and…