Cultivate presents Switch The Other

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CULTIVATE presents Switch The Other - a weekend group exhibition and a Saturday art market. Switch The Other will be the 193rd artist-led event, show or exhibition from Cultivate.  Switch The Other will be a long weekend takeover of the gloriously defiant DIY space that is Free The Gallery over in Crystal Palace, London SE19. The exhibition/event will run from the evening of Friday August 9th until late afternoon on Sunday August 11th. Another short sharp show, in and out, done in the way we like to do it. 

The beautiful space isn't going to be to everyone's  taste, we are not talking formal white cubes here (for the record I like formal white cubes), this is a link to photos of a show Cultivate founders Emma Harvey and I (Sean Worrall) took part in at the space earlier this year - https://wp.me/p2ScbB-qTZ - personally I loved the feel of Free The Gallery, the space is in a building that is pretty much falling down in a yard full of so much history as well as left-field junk stalls and vintage clothing/antique/vinyl dealers and on Saturdays a busy alternative food market. You can read and see more via that link we just gave you...

Our plan is to hang a show on the Friday afternoon and then open that evening with a semi-formal slightly maximalist exhibition, the opening night will run from 6pm until 8pm, everyone is welcome, no need to get on a list or any of that nonsense, we'll have an opening night on the Friday evening and then the exhibition will then run from 11am until 5pm on Saturday and Sunday, then we pack up and...

On Saturday, while the exhibition is on the floors, walls and windows, we'll run an art market indoors in the space between 11am and 5pm - an art market while all the other things happening outside and the with the markets next door in the yard and the (excellent) record stalls and such in other parts of the building. The exhibition will carry on on Sunday and close at 5pm.

Switch the Other will feature the work of thirteen artists: AGATA CARDOSO, ANDREE ADLEY, DOLLY ADLEY, EMMA HARVEY, FRANCESCA ALAIMO, JULIA MADDISON, LIZ GRIFFITHS, MARY T. SPENCE, MIA JANE HARRIS, SEAN WORRALL, STRAWB3RRY POKES, SUZIE PINDAR and WOLFGANG WOERNER - some names will be familiar to Cultivate regulars or to those of you who have been paying closer attention to the artist-led spaces and events that have helped make up London's ever evolving Art Scene so interesting over the last few years, some names will be new to some of you, new blood is always an important part of any Cultivate show. This time we'll have contemporary painters, textile artists, we'll have Agata Cardoso's photography, Suzie Pindar's word play, Andree Adley's eyes or maybe her crosses, we shall see what she brings, we'll Julia Maddison's installation, we'll have artists making their early moves, we'll have artists who's art has grown wiser with their years, we'll have a whole mix of stimulating people that we've picked up along the way (or should that read artists who have picked us up?) 

I'm excited about this show, putting on exhibitions, hanging paintings, showing other people's work excites me, it excites us, it is part of my art practice (as is writing about other people's art). I like going to different spaces with Cultivate, I like hanging art in different places, engaging with different people, art excites, art should engage, it should contact, it should, as Webcore once sang, switch the other.  Art excites. Do come along, everyone is welcome... (sw)     

Free The Gallery is down the hill at Haynes Lane, Crystal Palace, London SE19 3AN