And with the anniversary of Aberfan disaster and that devastation that hit Welsh mining community fifty years ago on our minds today, it seemed rather fitting to mention miners, communities, legacies and the latest artistic endeavours of painter and writer Darren Coffield. Coffield, the artist, painter and writer behind the excellent Joshua Compston book amongst…
Well that was quite an eventful weekend spent over on the edges of Hackney down in a Dalston basement at the foot of the Stoke Newington Road in amongst all the noise and people of N16. We’re in Monday morning recovery mode now and musing on all that went on, that was eventful! Big thanks…
This One is a Yorkshire man slowly painting his way through every wall in London, well rather rapidly actually, This One is a prolific street artist who’s tattoo-flavoured illustrative style kind of stands out on cluttered the walls he’s adding to. Unlike a lot of the current crop of London’s street artists This One‘s standout…
Been a few days over five years since we started this Cultivate thing, we’ll we had been cultivating before that, the Stinging Netil fair, the Hundred Paintings show and such, but it was just over five years ago that we formally started Cultivate. The first four years were on that now infamous corner smack bang…
Well just a whole load of things that are worth sharing in some way, things that have crossed our path, things like American conceptual artist Dan Graham on why he hates conceptual art For fifty years, Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants. With a practice that encompasses curating, writing,…
Reveal….. the show opened last Thursday evening in an East London railway arch, deliberately timed to happen as early in the year as possible, hopefully the first London art show of 2016, actually for once there was quite few things worth exploring on the first Thursday of the new year. Reveal happened at a space…
Megan Pickering is one of the more intriguing of the current crop of London-based artists. It isn’t easy to pin down what it was about the artist from Durham that first ignited curiosity and demanded we take a closer look? Was it the powerful sound of that film she made at the Aylesbury Estate last…
This one then, a whole stream of something dancing around something or other, and the point of it all? Sometimes it really is about just throwing a signpost or two in your direction, signposts like this one and a piece that claims that Five Women Artists Are Setting The Stage For A Future Feminism. Signposts,…
CULTIVATE presents PLAY: @ LONDON FIELDS, E8 – A maximalist art exhibition in a warehouse… Play happened last weekend, something like forty-three or so artists gathered together under the umbrella of Cultivate. I think we ended up with forty-three artists? We haven’t done a final count yet, couple of no-shows, couple of last minute additions,…
Should we be writing an end of the year list? Top ten painters? Best live band? Top Twenty Street artists? Album of the year? Well that was obviously Kayo Dot‘s latest album Coffins On Io and the challenges that went with that beautiful piece of art wasn’t it? Lists, meaningless click bait these days surely?…
