I meant to keep this blog far more active and pass on the experience of the Cultivate gallery experiment and such, never enough hours in the day. We expected it to be a lot of work but it really has become a full on eight day a week affair that sucks up every waking hour. No such thing as time off or a break, a non stop operation of sorting, booking, hanging, looking after, administrating, and the occasional massive ego who really has no idea what goes in to keeping the doors open on a shoestring budget.We've had the doors open for almost three months now, in fact it will be three months ago tomorrow that we first picked up the keys at 3pm, cleared out all the rubbish, the old beds and everything else, and opened the doors three hours later at 6pm for September First Thursday. So three months have passed and we enjoy our fourth First Thursday evening tomorrow. We're in the second week of our Something Blue group show. new art is being added to our walls for the second week of the blue show, 23 artists and their interpretations of the title. We've had nine events or shows or exhibitions during the first three months of Cultivate and I'm guessing we've shown the work of around 200 artists (rather proud of that fact actually).
I think we can say we've created quite a buzz down Vyner Street, indeed we see the official Whitechapel/TimeOut First Thursday website is currently using a photo of Cultivate and the crowd at our gallery to illustrate how popular their event is. Shame we've not be able to get them to list any of events or even respond to us thus far.. I guess it is all about the little galleries and new spaces feeding new energy in to things like First Thursday and the general East London art scene - went to a great show in a recently opened space in E8 called Ground Floor Left last night and today I've been delivering a piece to the Artefacto Galeria in Netil House here in Hackney ready for the opening of a show called Urban Curations
The big Vins and Eva canvas that has been evolving and evolving and that was last seen in my solo show at Cultivate earlier this month, now has another layer on it and a new Wilfred exploding with colourful leaf noise at the foot of painting The piece will be on show for a month at the Urban Curations exhibition that opens this Saturday evening December 3rd and then runs from December 5th until January 3rd, rather looking forward to the opening on Saturday night , there looked to be some rather good work waiting to be hung when I battled the high winds and delivered my piece earlier today
That big piece is two and a half metres high, don't really get a sense of the size from that photo up there. Rather like working on bigger pieces...
Right then, time to get on with the Something Blue publicity and booking in the next shows and getting us through the Christmas and New Year period with the Cultivate doors still open and art still glowing on the walls...
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