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…
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,…
We’re busy today, we’re busy every day, we’re busy revealing things today. Reveal will be the first 2016 art show brought to you by Cultivate. For those of you who don’t know, Cultivate is the art-event arm of Organ, for those who don’t know, Cultivate started life as a rather vocal artist run space back…
This weekend over at Hackney Wick, around Fish Island and the surrounding area of fast disappearing East London, lots of things are happening. Things? Creativity, art, painting, performance, dancing around architecture (while maybe watching a ship, or a Sweet Toof encrusted canal boat, arriving too late to save a drowning witch?). The annual Hackney WickED…
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,…
Play will be a two day show in an East London Warehouse, A big empty warehouse, right by London Fields. The exhibition happens of Saturday 6th June and Sunday 7th June What is Play about then? Simple really, a coming together, an art show, an art event and the gathering of artists to create an…
It really is becoming a weekly event now, art spaces closing, much loved music venues being torn apart, artists-run galleries biting the dust, the never-ending march of the who-gives-a-shit property developer. Yesterday it was the turn of the artists at Broadway Studios over in Tooting to make yet another last defiant stand. Time to say…
First off, what d’yamean, first off!? Don’t come around here with your first offs! We don’t do First offs,flip off with your first offs or your first downs and stuff your Venice and your vernissage, Birmingham has better canals and far less bulpoop, bring on the City of Colours. We imagine Shaky Jake next door…
Was it the year of the goat or the year of the sheep? Did the lamb lie down in Newport Place? The 2015 Chinese Open just happened, back to that glorious brutality and the red and grey of Q Park car park, back to Chinatown, Soho and the West End of London, back for another…
CHINESE OPEN TIME, can we now consider it an annual event? The Chinese Open is here again, last year it was the horse, this year the sheep.. “The Sheep are among the animals that people like most. It is gentle and calm. Since ancient times people have learned to use its fleece to make writing…
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