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Crate

6 Bilton Square, MARGATE, CT9 1DX

www.cratespace.co.uk 

An artist led initiative founded in 2002 by graduates from the Kent Institute of Art and Design. With support from ACE, SEEDA, EKP and TDC, and using A-N's Artists' Toolkit, Crate bought and refurbished a building for studios and project space in the heart of Margate's regeneration area. Folloring a feature on a-n, it is now permanently sited on Knowledge Bank, and was invited to speak at the National Conference for Creative Workspaces as a working example of successful artist-led management. Crate has provided project space as a resource for numerous short-term artists' activities: Collage parties, artists' documentation, and Breaking Ground, an experimental residency featured on A-N's Artists Talking. It has run a non-public programme for a peer-audience, including a residency exchange with Art Connexion (Lille); Machine Room, a two-part collaboration between English and French artists; and hosted Mark McGowan for Margate Rocks. Crate aims to act as a resource for Margate's creative community by supporting contemporary visual artists' practice and research, and to provide a project space for access to dedicated, affordable space for experimentation, production, documentation and research. It also aims to extend the use of the project space and support local practise by offering a curatorial bursary to local artists and curators to run a year-long programme, in order to connect local practitioners with national and international artists.

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