ARTIST CALL: IT IS GREEN @ Cultivate, Vyner Street

AN ARTIST CALL FOR A GROUP SHOW... Please note, ticking the I'm attending button is not enough, you need to read the instructions and contact us directly if you wish to be considered...

IT IS GREEN @ CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET

INITIAL INVITE TO SUBMIT WORK
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Coming up on Thursday 1st March until March 13th including March First Thursday evening, we have a group show called IT IS GREEN.

We leave the subject and the title open and vague, we are open to all interpretations, we look at the pieces in terms of how we feel it will flow next to the work already accepted and how it will fit on the walls and in the space alongside the other work. We like to create busy exciting shows, walls alive with art for people to explore and artists for viewers to get interested in and go find out more about

We invite artists who wish to take part in the show to interpret the title in any way they wish and to submit images of work in the form of a j.peg,. Submissions via the gallery e.mail address – info@cultivatevynerstreet.com

The show will open on Thursday evening 1st March, that’s March First Thursday (and everything that involves on Vyner Street, London E2). The show will run for two weeks

There will be a charge of £30 to the artist for each piece of work accepted in to the show, this is to help cover our rent and gallery costs for the period the show is on. There is no size restriction, we will consider several smaller pieces as one entry. Cultivate is an artist-run gallery, we share the costs between us, we are open about this, this does not mean we accepting anything and everything, we are picky and we have a reputation to uphold. There is no charge to submit, just a charge for those artists who are actually taking part

There is no deadline for entries, we'll keep the invite open until we have a full show that we are happy with. If the space fills up fast and you don’t get to us in time then sorry, we will close the call and try to update websites but it is sometimes hard to keep a track on where the call has been posted.

The show will be hung on the evening of Wednesday 31st Feb and opens on the evening Thursday 1st March at 6pm. So art will need to be delivered on Wednesday between 1pm and 6pm (or by arrangement)
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if you wish to submit a piece of work to be considered as part of the show, please send a j.peg of the proposed piece of work(s), the size of piece and details of medium along with links to your website/facebook page or wherever you want us to go to find out more about you and your work. Send to info@cultivatevynerstreet.com

All questions via the e.mail address.

(Sean and the Cultivate team)

www.cultivevynerstreet.com

ARTIST CALL for Numbers @ Cultivate Vyner Street

Open Submission 'NUMBERS' @ CULTIVATE, Vyner st - May First Thursday

Coming up on Thursday 3rd May until May 15th including May First Thursday evening, we have a group show called 'Numbers' at CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET

We leave the subject and the title open and vague, we are open to all interpretations, we look at the pieces in terms of how we feel it will flow next to the work already accepted and how it will fit on the walls and in the space alongside the other work. We like to create busy exciting shows, walls alive with art for people to explore and artists for viewers to get excited about

We invite artists who wish to take part in the show to interpret the title in any way they wish and to submit images of work in the form of a j.peg. Submissions via the gallery e.mail address – info@cultivatevynerstreet.com

The show will open on Thursday evening 3rd May, that’s May First Thursday (and everything that involves on Vyner Street, London E2). The show will run for two weeks

There will be a charge of £30 to the artist for each piece of work accepted in to the show, this is to help cover our rent and gallery costs for the period the show is on. There is no size restriction, we will consider several smaller pieces as one entry. Cultivate is an artist-run gallery, we share the costs between us, we are open about this, this does not mean we accept anything and everything, we are picky and we have a reputation to uphold. There is no charge to submit, just a charge for those artists who are actually taking part

There is no deadline for entries, we'll keep the invite open until we have a full show that we are happy with. If the space fills up fast and you don’t get to us in time then sorry, we will close the call and try to update websites but it is sometimes hsard ot keep a track on where the call has been posted.

The show will be hung on the evening of Wednesday 2nd May and opens on the evening Thursday 3rd May at 6pm. So art will need to be delivered on Wednesday between 1pm and 6pm (or by arrangement).

if you wish to submit a piece of work to be considered as part of the show, please send a j.peg of the proposed piece of work(s), the size of piece and details of medium along with links to your website/facebook page or wherever you want us to go to find out more about you and your work. Send to info@cultivatevynerstreet.com

www.cultivevynerstreet.com

PRUNING SHOCK....

Too busy, no time for blogs, paint must fly, Cultivating 24/7... The Art Is For Life show flowed through Christmas and New Year, the Everything Must Go show threw up more questions about what price art and such, I'll blog about it all tomorrow.... Tonight we do some pruning...

PRUNING SHOCK @ Cultivate, Vyner Street - 20^th – 22^nd January 2012.

Pruning Shock is a quick bit of pruning, a last minute weekend show and some recent gardening from ALAN WILSON and SEAN WORRALL

Opening night view, Thursday 19th Jan, 6pm until 9pm and then we run through to Sunday January 22^nd at Cultivate, Vyner Street...

Pruning, cultivate, plant growth... "If you prune a plant back hard the fear is it might die, the upper shoots in shock - the hope is it will be ten times more productive"

Alan Wilson came in to the gallery a few weeks ago, he had his pieces of work in the back of his van with all his gardening tools, We don’t know too much about Alan, I think he likes it that way. An artist, a Scotsman, a gardener, his website does say “ask me anything”, it is tempting not to, tempting just to read his beautiful creativity without really knowing anything in terms of his own intent.

Sean Worrall's current body of paintings explore the notions of new layers reclaiming those things that are left decay, notions of Trillion Green and the Captain's Table, the idea that our cities will eventually be covered and lost in new layers, in the short term as we use them as a street art canvas then as nature paints her leaf-shaped beauty over the mess we make as she makes it her own again. Sean's paintings explore the taking back of old walls, the growing over, the freshness of new leaves, new marks, old surfaces, always growing, new weathered marks over old faded scars, new layers, new leaves, fresh leaves, new growth over old, new shoots, new paint over old, new street art on old city walls, new art over old walls, new leaf layers over old decaying layers, the covering up, the taking back of unloved surfaces, spaces reclaimed both my human hand and nature's growth. Layers,

More details, links and such: www.cultivatevynerstreet.com

AN ANNOUNCEMENT: More cultivation....

AN ANNOUNCEMENT: So, as you know, the six month project that is "Cultivate, Vyner Street" is/was set to come to an end on March 7th. We planned to end it all with a violently beautiful splash of explosive colour at the start of March and leave in a blaze of paint-splattered contradiction. However, we can now announce that we shall carry on for the summer and until we tire of Vyner Street (or Vyner Street tires of us).

We started this Cultivate project back in September, we've had some great shows and some really positive reaction, we've just about survived, frayed fingernails and money worries, but we've got this far on our own terms. We've had some great support from fellow artists and from people who get what we're trying to do, times are tough and it is a constant fight for survival, but today we are pleased to announce that we carry on with the Cultivate project, for the foreseeable future, down Vyner Street... Right then, Black show almost sorted, vinyl show coming up for Record Store day in April, lots of ideas and shows to put in place...

Everything must go on... No sleep 'till....

Are you with us?

ARTIST CALL for Black at Cultivate...

Busy pulling together a rather black group show for February today, well actually, the call went out a few weeks ago and space is filling up fast. We are being picky though, it does have to be right for the feel of our room at Cultivate and is does have to flow as a whole with the rest of the work in the space. Here's the call...


ARTIST CALL... "BLACK" February First Thursday @ Cultivate Vyner Street

A call to invite artists who would like to be part of ...a group show called BLACK. Black will happen at Cultivate Vyner street during the first two weeks of February. The show will open on First Thursday February 2nd and run until February 14th

We shall say no more than the subject is BLACK, you can interpret that in any way you wish, it is deliberately deliciously vague and open to all kinds of colourful possibilities.

Artists, creatives, makers, do'ers, blackhearts and everyone who want to be involved, all you have ot do is simply submit a j.peg of any piece you wish to be considered for the Black show, along with a link ot your website, Facebook page or somewhere we can find out more about you. We have no other criteria other than "Black", we'll pick our way carefully through all the submissions, we'll say a positive "yes" to those pieces/people we feel fit the space and fit in with what we've already gathered, we'll reply with a polite "no" to the things we don't think quite right this time (and await your angry replies when we do say no - we are picky and it does have to feel right).

We don't charge a submission fee (we really don't hold with that idea), however if we do say yes and invite you to be involved, we will ask you to make a small contribution of £30 to help cover the costs of putting on the show, the gallery rent, publicity and such. We're open and upfront about this, we're artists doing all this ourselves and the contribution is about helping to cover costs and keeping this space open so we can present art on our terms, cultivate things while you get to show some art right in the middle of Vyner Street and First Thursday.

Image submissions, size of piece, medium and website links and a short hello to info@cultivatevynerstreet.com - we don't need any long artist statements or such, just an image of a proposed piece, the size, the medium and a link to a website so we can see a little more about you...

www.cultivatevynerstreet.com

"Mister, is that supposed to be an art fing...."

"Mister, is that supposed to be an art fing that's been left over there or is it just a van that caught fire?" said the gang of ten year old BMX kids who live in the neighbourhood and always come in to Cultivate to ask such good questions (and possibly try and nick my cans of spray paint). That van has been for a couple of days now and no one can resist looking in or kicking it, no one had tagged... it yet, but it is proving to be the most popular piece of 'art' in Vyner street this week.


We'll be open down at Cultivate again today, I know we don't usually open on Mondays, but this is a bank holiday and your last real chance to see the Art Is For Life show and it really was the point that we don't stop for Christmas and art galleries aren't about cheap mince pies and mulled wine and "pop up" gift shops and so many people have been coming down the street looking for art over the last week. Hard to compete with the art in the street this week though and I do rather like the idea that a burnt out van in Vyner street automatically has the local kids thinking it to be an art installation rather than just a burnt out van and that they didn't listen to the cynical 50 something who was passing by and told them not to be silly and that it was "just an insurance job"

HAPPY NEW YEAR, TIME FOR THE JANUARY SALES at CULTIVATE....

Just sent out a newsletter to the Cultivate mailing list, don's see why we can't post it here as well. Did you enter 2012 in one piece, I did it in with canvas, easel and a party, black paint as the bells rung the new year in, always like to start things in a creative way... here's the newsletter...

HAPPY NEW YEAR, TIME FOR THE JANUARY SALES at CULTIVATE....

First Cultivate Vyner Street newsletter of 2012, happy new year, hope the end of year holidays were good, thanks to everyone who's been along to our Art Is For Life show over the holiday period, we're open this Bank Holiday Monday 2nd Jan then down it all comes to make way for the January Sales and EVERYTHING MUST GO.

Opening night Thursday 5th January 2012, sale runs from... Friday 6th until Sunday 15th January....

Everything must go, a January sale and a gallery wall (and floor) consisting of those pieces us artists need to clear out in order to make room for the space needed for all the fresh creativity that must take place in the new year. A January sale of the things left behind in the gallery after the all the busy shows of 2011, along with the art that needs to be cleared out of various selected artists' studios in order to make way for the things that we are compelled to create in 2012... A sale that, just like every other January sale that's happening around about now in every high street big and small, is about the clearing out those things left, making space ready for the new clothes, the new shoes, the new art, creating the space needed to start it all again in 2012.... Everything must go, what price art anyway? Come grab a bargain in our January sale...

What price art? is the question we've been asking at Cultivate in 2011, the question we were asking with the Stinging Netil last summer, with Free Art Thursday, with the art drops and the painted vinyl left in trees, the painted cardboard left on tube trains, the painted canvas left on canal banks, that and all the questions thrown up by last September's very well received What Price Art show at Cultivate Vyner Street, as well as the end of 2011 Art Is For life show that responded to all the pop up Christmas art shops and their mulled-wine-fuelled sales, all the consumerism and the giant new East London shopping malls piled high with 'stuff' for people to buy buy buy, rush and buy,.start the sales, a time of plenty as all around us the economy crashes... These are times of plenty, make way for more, everything must go...

Everything must go, what price art anyway? Come grab a bargain in our January sale... For two weeks only, art at knock down prices, massive savings, bargains, discounts at Cultivate Vyner Street

We shall have a WHAT PRICE ART? wall, a wall full of art that follows up the 2011 What Price Art? show. A show where once again YOU the buyer will be the ones setting the price and where we the artists will not negotiate, whatever you say in terms of price, will be the price you buy the piece for, be it one penny or one million pounds...

Some ot the January sales, we open this Thursday, What price art anyway?


(artists wishing to join in on the opening nights of during the two weeks, should get in touch via info@cultivate Vyner Street)

Happy New Year

Sean, Emma and the Cultivate team

P.S First Thursday of February sees the opening of a two week group show called Black, artists who want more details and would like to get involved in the show and submit work should get in touch for details...

www.cultivatevynerstreet.com