And so More Cake? Happened down by the flower market and the colour of East London’s Columbia Road, a simple matter of ten artists coming together to make something happen on our terms. I think we can say it all went rather well, it was certainly eventful, it wasn’t polite, it did get messy, art does excite. I did write a rather substantial piece about the show, the thinking behind it, the art and the artists that you can find over on the Organ website   

More Cake?, Cultivate at Shipton Street Gallery, East London, March 2024 – We’ve hit the Monday morning after the (long) weekend before, the come down.  Rain stopped any serious play on Sunday, we were mostly burnt out by then though and now, on Monday, as we move in on what will be something like the 200th Cultivate show – we really do need to do a proper count up, we do know we’re in the late 190s in terms of shows and artist-led events under the Cultivate banner now – shows in conventional white cubes, in empty office buildings, shows at the seaside, that time at a dog show, that one in an Edwardian dress shop, shows under railway bridges, that really big one in that big condemned factory in East London, all those times down Vyner Street of course. Nearly two hundred artist-led shows in all kinds of places, an almost defiant stance. We’re in here on Monday morning recovering and taking a look back of a rather eventful long weekend that kicked off last Thursday evening. 

More Cake? was about many things, it was mostly because the chance was there and these days, with art becoming more and more of a middle class thing of privilege controlled by an axis of greedy landlords and a new breed of ageist gatekeepers who all appear to have done the same mummy-funded course in curating-by-the-book at Goldsmiths or Chelsea or wherever the hell these new gatekeepers are getting their increasingly conservative rules from – these days you need to… read on