“And with good reason” she said, (And with good) Reason then, a third and final on-line art exhibition brought to you by Cultivate during these strange locked-down virus-fearing times. When we first planned April’s #43Artists show, the first of what has now become a trilogy of on-line exhibitions, we had no idea that this Covid…
This #43Artists group show was never intended to be an alternative during the current virus-avoiding lockdown and the lack of physical gallery shows and white walls and open doors and the noise of opening night gatherings that we’re already missing, on line shows have always been viewed as an addition to what we do at […]
Cultivate presents Insert (Title Here) at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2, March 2020 – Insert (Title Here) opened last night, a group show that brings together six artists, mostly painters, although the plinths have been handed to self-declared “Artist, taxidermist, antiques collector and fetishist” Mia Jane Harris. The walls are mostly about paintings, Cultivate founders…
Every inventor is a potential dissenter? Geranium mines on Orkney? That’s what I heard anyway. Peter Maxwell Davies? Five Recommended Art Things? Back to the grindstone? The squares have been squared now, all about inserting titles this week, not quite so intense this time Five more upcoming art things to check out this coming week…
Nothing is Square Pt.2, Cultivate at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2 – opening night, 27th February 2020 – Hey look, we put on the show, we put on our Cultivate hats and put on another art show and now we’re grabbing our Organ hats and blowing our own trumpets about it all (again). You surely…
Nothing is Square Pt.2 – a Carefully curated painterly group show, 38 artists, 140 identically sized square pieces. Opening night Thursday February 27th, 6pm until 9pm. The show will happen at Shipton Street Gallery, Shipton Street, Columbia Road, London, E2 7RZ. All work ON 20cm x 20cm canvas, all work will be on sale at…
Yulia Robinson at Cultivate, Shipton Street Gallery, London E2, November 2019 – A Yulia Robinson solo show with guests Diane Goldie & Caroline Sayer – The third show and the final part of the November Cultivate Columbia Road takeover was essentially a solo show from London-based painter Yulia Robinson. We do encourage artists to being…
So what did excite is in terms of the London art scene in 2019? Cleaning up before we get on with the business of properly entering the roaring twenties or whatever we’re going to call this new rather foreboding decade. The plan was to do one of those retrospective “best of” look backs over the…
Fruit shops and things, Over and Over (Again and Again), April was pretty much all about the latest Cultivate Columbia Road takeover for us, two rather busy art shows in that beautiful old East London shop that has been Shipton Street Gallery for the last dozen or so years now. There was no time for…
Yulia Robinson is an exciting painter, something about the energy in the marks she makes, the colour she uses, the ambition in her paint, the spontaneity, her blowing and dripping, her bleaching, her multi-layered paintings that involve both figurative forms and an abstract language, Yulia’s paintings are rich in texture, alive with personality, with commitment,…
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