Margate's first annual photography festival, comprising the best of professional and up and coming contemporary photographers from the region opens on July 30th. Works will be situated in venues around Margate, including CRATE.

Private view 30th July and exhibition continues until 1st August.

Contact mark@tomthumbtheatre.co.uk for further details.

A 18.7 m sq studio space is now available at Crate. The space is on the first floor with with good access and light. The studio rent is £117 per calendar month inclusive, with WI FI access and use of the Crate project spaces. The studio space would be suitable as an individual or a shared space. For further information and to get an application form contact admin@cratespace.co.uk

EXHIBITION PREVIEW:
SATURDAY 17 April 2010, 6-9pm AT CRATE

EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES AND DATES:
18, 23-25, 30 April 2010 and 1 May, 12-5pm | Crate Project Space
19-23 April 2010, 9am-5pm | Herbert Read Gallery, UCA Canterbury, New Dover Road, Canterbury CT1 3AN

“Wherever art appears, life disappears." Francis Picabia

Crate presents Lacuna, which documents the actions of a series of personas inhabited by the artist Tom Duggan.

The exhibition, which will take place at Crate Project Space in Margate and at the Herbert Read Gallery at UCA in Canterbury, comprises performance, installation, found objects and text works.

Lacuna portrays ‘an artist who isolates himself for our spectacle’, regarding the tradition of disappearing artists like Bas Jan Ader and Lee Lozano, while considering, perhaps ironically, how such artists have entered into art history.

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OPEN EVENT:
SUNDAY 28 March 2010 11am - 3pm

Land Use Poetics is an international workshop and an exhibition about spatial practices, technologies and imaginaries.
During an intense four day workshop ten artists and researchers from around Europe will gather in Thanet for an improvised field study of its everyday environs.

A year ago, in March 2009, a first phase of the project was pursued in Thanet’s twin region and former Viking land, the historically complex and now intensely exploited landscape on the border between Sweden and Denmark, in this case more precisely the area around the Swedish cities of Malmö and Lund (historical Denmark), resulting in an exhibition at The Museum of Sketches, Lund.

This second phase of the project takes the landscape around Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate as a starting point. Through walks, observations, interviews, or other more or less artistically influenced methods – the group will attempt to explore, understand, map out and scrutinize the area and its different forms of land uses, the tentative result of which will be made public at an open event at Crate Space in Margate, Sunday the 28th of March, from 11am.

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EXHIBITION PREVIEW: FRIDAY 12/03/10 6-9pm

EXHIBITION OPEN: 13-14/03/10 12-5pm AND 19-21/03/10 12-5pm
(OR BY APPOINTMENT)

For the fifth exhibition in Crate's Bad Translation programme, Lucy Harrison explores interpretation and coincidence through the stories of two people – one from 20th Century Italy, the other from 19th Century Margate.

In the first part of the show, which takes place in Crate’s Project Space 1, she attempts to piece together the biography of the owner of a collection of letters and postcards found on a roadside in Sicily.

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