ARTISTS SELECTED:
CRATE / LA PLATE-FORME RESIDENCY AND EXHIBITION AWARD RECIPIENTS

Crate are pleased to announce Hannah Lees and Neil McNally as the two successful CRATE selected recipients of the CRATE / La Plate-Forme residency and exhibition exchange.
They will both undertake month-long residencies with exhibition at La Plate-Forme in Dunkerque from mid-August through to late September 2012. For progress and more details of their work please refer to CRATE's website and http://www.laplateforme1.com/?lang=en.
During this period, CRATE will host Mehdi A. and Anna Katharina Scheidegger from the Nord Pas de Calais region of France with exhibition in CRATE's Project Spaces planned from 14-30 September. More details will be announced nearer the time.

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Here is more information on all the artists:

Residency and exhibition at La Plate-Forme, Dunkerque

Hannah Lees is a contemporary artist based in London, whose work investigates ideas of cycles: constancy and mortality; the sense that things come to an end and the potential for new beginnings.
She completed a post-graduate diploma at Chelsea College of Art, (London) in 2010 and this year she completed a foundry residency at the Royal College of Art (London).
Recent exhibitions: The Conch Part V at the South London Gallery and Smoke at the Royal College of Art.
Forthcoming projects include: Nowhere island radio (Plymouth) www.nowhereislandradio.com and an Internet project in collaboration with Michael Pybus, www.busysleep.com.
For more information please visit www.hannahlees.com


Neil McNally has a practice that encompasses painting, sculpture, film, and more recently writing and curating.

For more information please visit http://www.neilmcnally.com/

Residency and exhibition at CRATE, Margate

Mehdi A. - http://www.mehdi-a.com/

Anna Katharina Scheidegger - http://www.annakatharina.fr/


Funded on the Kent side by Arts Council South East and Kent County Council.

www.hannahlees.com