Biography/cv

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A Leaf, East London, October 2016

Sean Worrall is an artist, mostly a painter, a resident of East London, something hopefully reflected in the current body of work, Sean also co-runs and curates at Cultivate gallery, formally of Vyner St, now nomadic and popping up all over the city. Sean also runs the long standing Organ magazine (a respected print magazine for many years, now a very busy website), along the way Organ evolved in a series of TV shows an off-shoot record label that ran rather successfully for 15 or so years as well a radio show on London Arts radio station Resonance FM. These days Sean is mostly a painter living and working in East London, a painter who exhibits extensively both in galleries and on the street. Sean has exhibited both as a solo artist and in group shows both nationally and internationally and has work in collections all over the world.

Sean’s current body of work explores the notions of new layers, the reclaiming of those things that we leave to decay, the idea that our cities will eventually be lost in new layers. Sean’s paintings and occasional installations explore the taking back of old walls, the growing over, the freshness of new leaves, new layers, new marks on old surfaces, fresh layers always growing. New paint over decayed colour, the marks on tired city walls, new paint over old canvas, the (not quite) covering up, the taking back of unloved surfaces, unwanted material, the things we never look at, the things we waste

An important part of Sean’s work is engagement, community, pieces like the year long #365ArtDrop18 piece that involved 365 paintings on recycled material being left to hang on walls for people to just take, things like his work with the open doors of Cultivate (and Organ) and his work with his fellow artists via both Cultivate and Organ as well as the notions of the Cheap Art Manifesto and the idea that art (and the collecting of art) should be accessible to all, the DIY spirit or punk rock that Sean grew up with.

Sean believes strongly that art should be about community, that it should exist within community, that doors should be open, that an art gallery in nothing without the people who come in.

Sean currently curates shows via the Cultivate platform, writes via Organ (the magazine he helped start in his art student days and has run since the last century). Sean is mostly a working artist, a  painter who regularly exhibits both on the street and in galleries

sw_art31BIOGRAPHY (March 2021)

Sean Worrall is currently engrossed in the act of surviving as a full time artist (and reluctant curator), currently defiantly based in a concrete bunker in East London.

Sean’s background is in punk rock, street art and the photocopied DIY zine-driven underculture of the last century – that and his delicately flowery textile design work approached in a contemporary painterly kind of way.  Sean spent the late 80’s and the early 90’s promoting DIY music shows, running zines, a busy underground record label and drawing delicate leaves and flowers while studying textile design and leaving his art on the street, or up against walls or spray painted on walls (long before social media and everyone sharing everything on line instantly), Sean spent the 90’s immersed in underground zine culture, alternative music and the running the highly successful Organ magazine (a publication that grew from a handmade hand-printed photocopied DIY zine to a cutting-edge glossy alternative music and arts publication with a worldwide reputation and readership). Sean ran a very busy underground record label, put on hundreds of music and art events in conventional venues, unconventional venues, Camden pubs, squats and alternative spaces all over London, he painted and created records sleeves and more for several bands and labels, ran a weekly TV show (long before the internet kicked in properly), toured the UK and Europe as the “in-house” artist with a band – creating their art, creating art at their gigs, as well as writing for several music publications..

“EMMA STREET, E2” at WE COULD NOT AGREE

The start of this century was all about record labels and releasing a number of significant cutting edge band-launching records via Sean’s then growing record label, as well as regular radio shows, glossy magazines, tours, gig promotions and things getting far too big. Something had to give, Sean dropped the record label, the magazine, the music, the Organ and everything else to focus on nothing but his need to paint.. Since 2009 Sean has been devoted to nothing but painting (and curating). Painting on canvas, painting on on things that are left on the street, more painting on the actual street, on walls, on doors, street drops and the rest,.as well as exhibiting his more conventional canvas work extensively around London and beyond in solo shows and group shows at various gallery and events.

Sean (and co conspirator Emma Harvey) spent four years running a very busy always open maximalist (punk-rock flavoured) art gallery right in the middle of Vyner Street, East London, Cultivate opened in late 2011 following on from the very successful Stinging Netil take over of an East London market for a summer’s Sunday full of art, performance and music, 48 artists and a day of live performers, painters and bands.  The one day event was curated by Sean and fellow painter Emma, and  that good feeling left by the Stinging Netil was to be the catalyst the for Cultivate. A gallery space opened right in the middle of what was then the central focus in terms of East London art, Vyner Street was then an almost unique street alive art galleries and studios and more, we almost defiantly opened the door to Cultivate smack bang in the middle of it all (the always open door was a very important part of it, no unwelcoming closed doors and aloof buzzers for us, rain or shine, the gallery door was always open to everyone). Cultivate in Vyner Street saw massive crowds, some 112 shows and events before is all came crashing to an end at the start of 2015 as the developers moved in and down came all the walls of all the galleries.  Cultivate goes on though,  we’re rather enjoying the current nomadic lifestyle as we continue to curate in various galleries and spaces under the Cultivate banner..

2014 was mostly taken up by all the time-consuming work of creating and showing work of his own as well as the art of many others at nomadic Cultivate events. Sean also spent time post Vyner Street creating several new Hundred Pieced Pieces (pieces of art in one hundred parts – one hundred pieces of cardboard sold for £1 each, one pieces of 12″ phand painted vinyl and such – as well as taking part in events and shows such as A Fate Worse Than Death and celebrating the life and times Johua Compston via a the idea of A Better Woolworths, traveling with the Art Car Boot Fair, taking part in the Folkestone Fringe (at 2014 year’s Triennial), the Liverpool Biennial, enjoying being part of shows in car parks in Westminster, Soho, Hoxton and Brick Lane, in high-profile artist-led group shows like the excellent We Could Not Agree (widely acknowledge as the best thing to happen during Frieze week that year), the Chinese Open, that year’s Off The Wall show, The Big Deal show in a warehouse over in Fulham, the Brick Lane Art Car Boot Fair itself (Sean has been invited to take part in the prestigious event for the last six years running now), the Sunless show in Bermondsey, the Hackney Wick Take Back, the Hackney WickEd weekend (where Sean painted one hundred paintings on found things – doors, skateboard decks, found canvas and such and left them all on the Hackney Wick streets to be taken by people during the WickEd weekend), as well as taking part in numerous other shows, street events, art drops and such in and around London.

In 2015 Sean embarked on the #365ArtDrops project, a series of 365 paintings on things found on the street, things recycled – old paintings saved from skips, planks of wood and such, all worked on and treated as blank canvases – worked on, recycled and them put back on the street for people to take. The #365ArtDrop pieces were mostly hung on walls in East London, the pieces re-emerged in collections and hanging on people’s walls all over the globe with finders using the hashtag to post about their found art drops via the various stands of social media.  2015 also saw Sean and a fellow painter Emma once again collaborating to take over a massive (condemned) East London warehouse to curate an ambitiously large group show alive with contemporary painters, installation, street artists, performance, sculpture and more. The weekend warehouse show was called Play, and as gentrification saw more spaces and galleries go under the wrecking ball some said Play was East London’s last stand in terms of big artist-led DIY art events – the mood was certainly changing in the playground that was once the east of the city, the fallen down art spaces replaces by fancy coffee shops and an endless parade of establishments imposed on a community it was driving out. .

2016 saw several #43 piece solo shows in London galleries (shows of 43 paintings all sold at £43) as well as short-notice pop-up afternoon shows under railway bridges, shows in draper shops as well as solo shows and group shows in more formal gallery spaces as the Sometimes They Have Thorns series of paintings continued to be explored and the leaf motif (or tag) repeated in a street flavoured pop art manner.  2016 saw more Cultivate group shows in railway arches, basement galleries as well more adventures and seaside treats in Margate, Hastings and such, the Debased and Debaser Cultivate group shows in a Dalston basement gallery over on London N16 were particularly highlights of another busy year.

March 2017 now and Sean has co-curated a number of successful Cultivate group shows already this year while also embarking on the notion of a small painting brought to a conclusion on every single day during 2017.  Sean is currently holed up in his East London studio bunker, recovering from five years of Cultivate maximalism, painting several large canvas pieces at the same time, planning new Cultivate events, preparing for a new solo show and compiling the book that will document the art and artists of the Vyner Street period. That and enjoying writing a daily slice of the (born again) on-line version of Organ as a more back to basics blog that covers various flavours of art, music and underculture. (March 8th 2017)

2018 – Lots of curating, more shows, as well as another year-long art drop piece, 365 paintings on found recycled material left out there for people to just take. A piece of work that took in events in Folkestone, the Deptford X, a weekend in a forest at a festival in Southern England and more

2019 Was mostly about about more paintings, more curating and the fruit shop series that involved market style fruit shop stalls at various markets, as well as the Whitecross Street Party, the Art Car Boot Fair and a solo Fruit Shop show in a one time greengrocers shop in East London.

2020 Started well with the ongoing Skyline series that started in late 2019 in Margate with paintings of Dreamland and the Turner Contemporary, with paintings installed as perminant installations of the platform at Huddersfield Railway station, and the Covid pandemic struck us all and a series of shows got cancelled incuding a solo show that was closed before it even opened. The rest of the year was about lockdown and staying in and curating a series of very well recieved Cultivate on-line group shows, each one viewed by rens of thousands of people from all over the globe.  In July 2020 a series of “Ten” paintings started, a series of daily concluded paintings always on a 10cm square, the series went out until the end of the year and still goes on in 2021. There was one physical more solo show in East London late 2020, that one had to close early as well as we locked down yet again.

2021 so far, as we enter August, has mostly been about the ongoing Ten paintings as well as lots and lots of other paintings here in the studio as we avoid people and Covid and well, you know. The first six months of the year saw six carefully curated Cultivate on-line group shows (shows that have been viewed over 100,000 times by people from all over the land and indeed the globe). The Spring on-line version of the Art Car Boot Fair saw 130 paintings sold in one weekend. Besides a third and final #43Leaves for Deptford X  in July- 43 Paintings on found recycled material left on the streets of Deptford, South London, during the art festival – there has been little or no activity outside of the studio or via the computer screen, the first half of the year has mostly been about the various shades of lockdown and the Covid pandemic..

And on went 2021, on went the pandemic and variousshades of lockdown and on went on line shows and the on-line Art Car Boot Fair and lots of painting behind closed doors

2022 started with another #43Leaves pieces, 43 paintings on found recycled material left hanging on the streets of London….

SELECTED SHOWS AND EVENTS

SOLO  (2010 – 2022)

JANUARY 2022 – #43Leaves for January – on the streets of East London

JULY 2021 – A third and final #43Leaves for Deptford X – 43 Paintings on found recycled material left on the streets of Deptford, South London, during the art festival
DEC 2020 – X Marks The Spot – Shipton Street Gallery, Columbia Road, London E2
AUG 2020 – A #43Leaves piece for August, on the streets of East London

NOV 2019 – Harvey and Worrall – Chips, Starz, What Would Joan Jett do? Shipton St Gallery, London E2
OCT 2019 – #43Leaves for Deptford X, an art drop as part of Deptford X art festival
SEPT 2019 – #43Leaves for September – 43 Paintings left on the streets of London during September
April 2019 – The Fruit Shop at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2 – A solo show of fruit paintings and such

Jan 1st/Dec 31st 2018 – The year-long #365ArtDrop18 piece, a piece of work in 365 parts, 265 paintings on found material left hanging on the streets for people to take
Sept/Oct 2018 – Cultivate Columbia Road Takeover at Shipton Street Gallery, East London – six weeks of curation and four group shows
Sept 2018 – #365ArtDrop18 at Deptford X – 43 pieces of the year-long piece, part of the Fringe during the 19th Deptford X art festival
Aug 2018 – 43 pieces of the on-going #365ArtDrop18 at the BYLINE FESTIVAL, Ashdown Forest, Pippingford Park, Uckfield, Sussex.
July 2018 – HAMISH MACAULAY and SEAN WORRALLUnframed? – no format Gallery, Deptford. London, SE8

Sept 2017 –  #43 A piece of work in 43 parts. 43 paintings hung out on the streets of Folkestone. 43 paintings for people to take should they wish to.
July 2017  #43 – A piece of work in 43 parts. 43 paintings hung out on the streets of Leytonstone (as part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail), 43 paintings for people to take should they wish to

Dec 2016:  #43 – A piece of work in 43 parts. 43 paintings hung out on the streets of London/Birmingham for people to take should they wish to
July 2016:   #43 – A Hackney WickED Art Drop, 43 paintings hung out over the the weekend of July 30th/31st During Hackney WickEd festival at Hackney Wick, East London.
June 2016:   HARVEY & WORRALL at WALL & JONES, a collection of paintings around the treasure of Wall & Jones, an Edwardian tailor’s shop, Hackney, East London.
April 2016:   SOMETIMES THEY HAVE THORNS – Fount Gallery , Hackney, London.

Feb 2016:   #43 a new piece of work from Sean Worrall consisting of 43 pieces and revealed somewhere in London on Friday February 12th, the 43rd day of 2016.

Jan – Dec 2015:  #365ARTDROPS – A year-long piece of work in 365 parts, 365 paintings on things found on the street, put back out on the streets for people to take.
March 2015:   DAFFODILS – A one day show at the Mare Street Gallery, London E8
Sept 2014:  WHAT PRICE ART?  An event where you name the price and there is no debate… at Cultivate, Vyner St, London E2
Aug 2014:   The FIFTH ONE HUNDRED PIECED PIECE at the Hackney WickED arts festival, East London.
June 2014:   THE ONE HUNDRED PIECED VINYL PIECE – June First Thursday at Cultivate,Vyner Street  – A wall full of painted vinyl and a first taste of the One Hundred pieced Vinyl Piece created for the 2014 Art Car Boot Fair.
Nov 2013:   WHAT PRICE ART?  A show where the buyer names the price at Cultivate, Vyner St, London E2
April 2013:  PAINTINGS, Sean Worrall and guests
at Cultivate, Vyner St, London E2
July 2012:  LAYERS, COLLABORATIONS, DEPOSITIONS, at Cultivate, Vyner St, London E2
Jan 2012:  PRUNING SHOCK, Works by Alan Wilson and Sean Worrall 
at Cultivate, Vyner St.
Nov 2011:  PAINTINGS  Sean Worrall, a solo show at Cultivate, Vyner St, London E2
Sept 2010:   LEAVES, FRIENDS, SHAPES, ADVENTURES IN KENSAL GREEN, Dissenters Chapel Gallery, Kensal Green Cemetery, London W10.
July 2010:  A drop of 23 paintings around West London somewhere sometime during West London First Wednesday – under the Westway, Portobello Road, who knows where….
June 2010:  PAINTINGS at Harvist Gallery, Kensal Rise, London NW10

GROUP SHOWS (2010-2022)

Jan/April 2022 – Sylfaen Celf Bangor Art Foundation 40+1 – Storiel Gallery, Bangor (Wales)
March 2022 – Purrsistance, Painting Cats – Carton Exhibition Space, Catford, London SE6
March 2022 – Impart – on-line via Cultivate Gallery
March 2022 – The Colour Cosmos Show at Reading University Library
March 2022 – Books (a companion show) on-line via Cultivate Gallery
March 2022 – GiveMeLove – Lido Stores, Margate
February 2022 – Book – on-line via Cultivate Gallery
February 2022 – Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh Art at London Welsh Centre, London WC1
February 2022 – The Colour Cosmos Show – Two Dales Bakery, Reeth, North Yorkshire
January 2022 – The Colour Cosmos Show – The Richmond Gallery, Richmond, Yorkshire
January 2022 – Deflect – on-line via Cultivate Gallery
January 2022 – Haus A Rest – The Colour Issue (No21) – An online group exhibition

November 2021 – The Art Car Boot Fair Queen and Country edition – on line
November 2021 – The Art on a Postcard Winter Auction – on line
November 2021 – Art on a Postcard preview, Soho Review Gallery, London
October 2021 – The Anonymous heART Project
August 2021 – Global – an Instagram Stories show on curated by Sophie’s Emporium (Liverpool)
August 2021 – The Postcard Project at One Four Seven, Stoke Newington, London N16
August 2021 – Art Car Boot Fair “Summer Sizzler” 0n-line

JULY 2021 – Ebury Edge Art Market as part of SWFest, Pimlico, London, SW1
JUNE 2021 – Cultivate presents Saturation
MAY 2021 – Spring on-line Art Car Boot Fair – Flora and Fauna edition
MAY 2021 – Cultivate presents Still
APRIL 2021 – Cultivate presents  Next (Au Suivant)
MARCH 2021 –  Cultivate presents Alright?
FEB 2021 – Cultivate presents Self
JAN 2021 – ReCultivate

NOV 2020 – Cultivate presents Why?
OCT 2020 – Art Car Boot Fair virtual on-line lockdown version
AUG 2020 – Cultivate presents So Why Not Do It Again? – an on-line show curated by Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall
JUNE 2020 – Cultivate presents (And with good) Reason – an on-line show curated by Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall
MAY 2020 – Cultivate presents (Far from the) Turmoil – an online show curated by Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall
MAY 2020 – Art Of Caring – St George’s Hospital Tooting, Surrey
APRIL 2020 – Cultivate presents #43Artists – an online show curated by Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall
APRIL 2020 – Feed NHS at Highgate Contemporary Gallery, London
APRIL 2020 – Johnny Shows his Privates – On-line at Lockdown Gallery, Kent, featuring work by by Tracy Emin, Chapman Brothers, Gilbert & George, Gavin Turk, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Sean Worrall, Christopher Ward, Mia Jane Harris and more
MARCH 2020 – Insert (Title Here)  – Cultivate at Shipton Street Gallery, Columbia Road, London E2
FEB 2020 – Nothing Is Square Pt.2 – Cultivate at Shipton Street Gallery, Columbia Road, London E2
JAN 2020 – Punk For Mental Health at Stash Gallery, Vout-O’Reenee’s, London E1

DEC 2019 – Prêt- à – Accrocher, an Art Car Boot Fair Xmas flash Art Sale, Pimlico, London SE1
NOV 2019 – Nothing is Square – Cultivate at Shipton Street Gallery, Columbia Road, London E2 – –  curated by Sean Worrall and Emma Harvey
NOV 2019 – Can I Get A Slice? – Atom Gallery, London N16

SEPT 2019 – ART CAR BOOT FAIR at Dreamlands, Margate
JULY 2019 – THE FRUIT SHOP at the WHITECROSS STREET PARTY, London
JUNE 2019 – THE FRUIT SHOP at the ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Kings Cross, London
APRIL 2019 – COMMUNE at Stour Space, Fish Island, Hackney Wick.
APRIL 2019  – OVER AND OVER – Cultivate at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2 – – A group show currated by Sean Worrall and Emma Harvey
FEB 2019 – ATTRACT – Cultivate at BSMT Space, Dalston, London N16 – A group show currated by Sean Worrall and Emma Harvey
FEB 2019 – ATTRACT Part Two – an on-line group show from Cultivate and Organ magazine

Dec 2018 – ART CAR BOOT FAIR Christmas Wrap Party – Vauxhall, London
Dec 2018 – END OF THE LINE FESTIVE FAIR  – End of The Line Gallery, Shoreditch, East London.
Oct 2018 – I’M GONNA ASK YOU AGAIN: Cultivate at Columbia Road – part of the six week residency at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2
Oct 2018 – PURE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CLEAN – Angus Hughes Gallery, Clapton, London E5.- a show curated by Cedric Christie & Paul Sakoilsky
Oct 2018 – MAYBE I DIDN’T SEE IT FIRST, BUT I’M THE ONE WHO WANTS IT WORSE: Shipton Street Gallery, London E2
Oct 2018 – I SAW IT FIRST, I WANT IT WORSE: Cultivate at Columbia Road – part of the six week residency at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2
Sept 2018 – INTENTION: Cultivate at Columbia Road – the first show of the six week residency at Shipton Street Gallery, London E2
Sept 2018 – The 2018 ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Granary Square, Kings Cross, London
July 2018 WILD – a 3d outdoor exhibition, part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail at Wanstead Quaker Meeting House, Leytonstone, London E11
April 2018 – Record Store Day at Grow Hackney with Grow and Vinyl Pimp
Jan 2018 – INTENT (Part Two) – Cultivate at BSMT Space, Dalston, London.
Jan 2018 – INTENT (Part One) – An on-line exhibition curated by Cultivate

Nov 2017 – FOLKESTONE CREATIVE QUARTER SECRET POSTCARD SHOW WINTER SHELTER FUNDRAISER
Nov 2017 – THE (ACCIDENTAL) MARKS MADE WHILE MAKING ART  – An on-line exhibition curated by Cultivate
Sept 2017 – ART CAR BOOT FAIR – FOLKESTONE  as part of the 2017 Triennial

August 2017 – SOMETHING BLUE – an on-line exhibition curated by Cultivate
July 2017 –  INSIDE OUT –  a show “co-curated by HW’ED Patron Gavin Turk, HW’ED Director Anna Maloney and friends” at Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
July 2017:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Vauxhall, London
June 2017: INTERACT – Cultivate at Coate Studios, Hackney, East London
April 2017: SOMETHING BLACK – An on-line art exhibition
Feb 2017:  RED – An on-line art exhibition
Feb 2017:  FRAGILE – An Art Show in a Basement, Cultivate at BSMT Space, London N16
Dec 2016: GOLD at BSMT Space, London N16
Sept 2016: DEBASED – An Art Show in a Basement at BSMT Space, London N16
Sept 2016: Cultivate at the Victoria Park Dog Show
July 2016:  HAPPY VALLEY PRIDE, Hebdon Bridge, Yorkshire
July 2016:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, HASTINGS at The Stade/Jerwood Gallery
July 2016:   DISPLACEMENT (There Goes The Neighbourhood) at One Little Girl And a Can of Gasoline – A show featuring artists who have painted on Clare St. East London
July 2016:   ON THE BRINK – A  3D Exhibition – An event in the grounds of The Wanstead Quaker Meeting House, London, E11 as part of the Walthamstow Art Trail.
June 2016:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
April 2016:  THE CULTIVATE SPRING ART MART at Fount Gallery, Hackney, London, E8.
Mar 2016:   DEBASER – An Art Show in a Basement, Cultivate at BSMT Space, London N16
Jan 2016:   REVEAL – An Art Show in a Railway Arch, Cultivate at Fount, London E8

Nov 2015:  DEADCUTS at the Ritter-Zamet gallery, Whitechapel, East London.
Nov 2015:  THE WORLD OF DIANE GOLDIE and friends. The Vaults, Leake St, London, SE1
Sept 2015:  Cultivate at the Victoria Park Dog Show
Aug 2015:   ART CAR BOOT FAIR at the Turner Contemporary, Margate.
July 2015:  HANG WITH US at Norlington Studios –  a one day pop up in Leyton, London E10, in support of Great Ormond Street Hospital as part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail
June 2015:  DEN-CITY 1 –  “a temporary utopian city of installations, dens and assemblages” at Foreman’s, Hackney Wick
June 2015:   ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
June 2015:   PLAY – A group show In a beautiful big empty shell of an East London warehouse, Hackney, London, E8, curated by Sean Worrall and Emma Harvey.
April 2015:  SOAPBOX SUNDAY SOCIAL at Monty’s Bar, Brick Lane, East London
Mar 2015:  POP UP, F**K OFF –  Broadway Studios, Tooting Broadway, London, SW17
Feb 2015:   CHINESE OPEN at Q PARK car park, Soho, London, W2

Dec 2014:  ARTIST XMAS BAZAAR at the Angus-Hughes Gallery, Hackney, London E5
Oct 2014:   WE COULD NOT AGREE, another adventure in another car park, this time on level three in a multistory in Cavendish Square, London, W1
Sept 2014: I’LL BE BACK IN FIVE MINUTES. The last group show at Cultivate, Vyner St.
Sept 2014:  WE ARE THREE, a third birthday group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street.
Aug 2014:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR – Part three of the 2014 summer adventure at FOLKSTONE as part in the FOLKSTONE TRIENNIAL
Aug 2014:  OFF THE WALL – The 9th Terrace Annual Open, Terrace Gallery, London E8.
July 2014:    BIG DEAL! MARVELOUS MIX UPS 6 at LOUD AND WESTERN, Fulham, SW6
July 2014:   LITTLE SUMMER BENEFITS, Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2:
July 2014:   A FETE WORSE THAN DEATH 20th anniversary, Rivington Street, East London –   “A 20th Anniversary Art extravaganza to commemorate the original Fete”
July 2014:   ART CAR BOOT FAIR at the LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL
June 2014:   MIDSUMMER WEEKEND at Cultivate, Vyner St, East London
June 2014:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
April 2014:  SUNLESS at Bermondsey Project Space, London, SE1
April 2014:  STOP THE WAR at INDRA AND SAMIA GALLERY, London E1
April 2014:   HACKNEY WICK V&A TAKEBACK, SWAN WHARF, Hackney Wick, London E3
April 2014:  A MONTH OF GOLD, Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
April 2014: APRIL FIRST SATURDAY – The second Vyner Street First Saturday, an all day event at several Vyner Street art spaces, London E2.
March 2014:  MARCH FIRST SATURDAY – The first Vyner Street First Saturday, an all day event at several Vyner Street art spaces, London E2.
March 2014:  THE LIBRARY OF OBSCURE WONDERS at HUNDRED YEARS GALLERY, London E2 – A show curated by Jo Fisher Roberts and Giles Leaman
Feb 2014:  THE 2014 CHINESE OPEN at Q PARK, Soho, London, W2 – A Chinese New Year group show in a giant underground car park
Jan 2014:   CULTIVATE EVOLVED, a First Thursday group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street

Dec 2013:  ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS, Cultivate, Vyner St, London E2
Sept 2013:  YES, I KNOW WHERE BISTROTHEQUE IS – A text based group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Aug 2013:  WE ARE ALL SKATEBOARDERS, artists against the destruction of the Southbank Undercroft, a group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Aug 2013:   2: A TWO YEAR RETROSPECTIVE, a group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street,
July 2013:   ART CAR BOOT FAIR at QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK, London
July 2013:  MEMORABILIA  at Norlington Studios, Leyton, London E10, in support of Great Ormond Street Hospital as part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail
July 2013:   PINK, a group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
June 2013:   FLOWER, The Cultivate Summer Flower Show at Cultivate, Vyner St, E2
June 2013:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
May 2013:  CAN? at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2 curated with My Dog Sighs
April 2013:  TEN:2 at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
April 2013:  RED REVISED at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
March 2013:  SPRING – a group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Feb 2013:   INTERNATIONAL FREE ART FRIDAY – Free art drops from artists in and around Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2,
Feb 2013:   TEN  at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Jan 2013:  BACK IN BLACK a group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Jan 2013:  BANG at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2

DEC 2012:   DREAMING OF A BLACK AND WHITE CHRISTMAS, A Side B Side, Hackney.
Dec 2012:    FREE ART FRIDAY – Free art drops from artists in and around Cultivate/
Nov 2012:    PRIMARIES, a three colour group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Sept 2012:   FREE ART FRIDAY – Free art drops from artists in and around Cultivate.
Sept 2012:   SHOES, a group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Sept 2012:  CULTIVATE’S GREATEST HITS – A one year retrospective at Cultivate
Oct 2012::   CULTIVATION, a group show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Aug 2012   LONDON, YOUR CALL 2 at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
July 2012:  LONDON, YOUR CALL at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
July 2012:   DEEP PURPLE  at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
June 2012   ART CAR BOOT FAIR at the APPLE CART FESTIVAL, Victoria Park, East London
June 2012:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
June 2012:  LITTLE SUMMER BENEFITS at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
May 2012: NUMBERS  at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
April 2012:  VINYL, The Art of the Vinyl Record at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
March 2012:  FOOL’S GOLD at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
March 2012:  IT IS GREEN at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Feb  2012:   BLACK at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Jan 2012:   EVERYTHING MUST GO, The January Sales at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2

Dec 2011:   URBAN CURATIONS at Triple X gallery, Netil House, Hackney, London E8.
Dec 2011:  ART IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS at Cultivate, Vyner St, E2
Dec 2011:   SOMETHING BLUE at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Oct 2011:  LITTLE BENEFITS at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Sept 2011: WHAT PRICE ART?  A group show where the buyer sets the price at Cultivate/
Sept 2011: RED at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
Sept 2011:  22 HOURS the opening show at Cultivate, Vyner Street, London E2
June 2011:  Luke Jerram’s PLAY ME I’M YOURS, at LEDENHALL MARKET ARCADE, London EC2 and ST MARY-LE-BOW CHURCHYARD, London
June 2011:  ART SHOP COLLECTIVE, AAA GALLERY, Hagerston, East London
June 2011:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
June 2011:  THE STINGING NETIL, an East London market art fair takeover, curated by Sean Worrall and Emma Harvey

Aug 2010:   LADBROOK GROVE ART FAIR, Westway, Ladbrook Grove, West London
July 2010:  TRUMANS BREWERY ART FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
July 2010:  ONE HUNDRED PAINTINGS SUMMER SHOW @ Harvist Gallery, London NW10, curated by Sean Worrall
JULY 2010:  West London FIRST WEDNESDAY at Graffik Gallery, Ladbrook Grove
June 2010:  PATRICK’S HARVIST ART FAIR, Kensal Green, London NW10
June 2010:  ART CAR BOOT FAIR, Brick Lane, East London
March 2010:  THE LOW-FI FAYRE at the William IV, Harrow Road, London NW10
Feb 2010:  WALL OF LOVE at Graffik Gallery, Ladbrook Grove, West London.

OTHER

Nov 2015 – THE POTENTIAL OF OPEN EXHIBITIONS at Firstsite Gallery, Colchester – A four artist talk/presentation

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SEAN WORRALL – Fragile at BSMT Space gallery, Feb 2016

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