I am an independent art curator based in the UK.

My passion for contemporary, interactive and performance art has allowed me to develop my skills as a creative thinker and organiser of artistic exhibitions. My previous experience at the Turner Contemporary, Margate in Public Programmes has expanded my knowledge of up-and-coming contemporary installation art as well as collaborative performance based works as seen in our recent YOU ARE HERE opening. I have worked with Proud Galleries in London, a commercial Photographic gallery exhibiting images from the 1960′s-today and also began my working career as a volunteer at the Fairfield City Museum and Gallery in Sydney, Australia where I am from.

I completed a BA in Design for Theatre and Television in 2007 and went on to work as a props & lighting designer and set maker for various Theatrical productions in NSW, Australia. I have also worked for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the design department. My recent Master in Art Curatorship degree completed in 2011 at the University of Sydney has enabled me to network in the curatorial and art field in Australia and England as well as obtain invaluable curating skills for all kinds of artistic exhibitions and programmes. I am currently based in Margate, UK where I have crossed over from working for an arts organisation to freelance curating.

Please feel free to get in touch even if only to discuss a few ideas, I would love to hear from you and see where it takes us!

Location: Margate
Contact: danithedesigner@gmail.com
Website: www.cargocollective.com/daniellegilbertcurator

I work in a variety of media including photography, drawing, printmaking traditional and digital media as well as painting.

The impetus for my work derives from a desire to examine and represent the ineffable, the numinous, the essential nature of this transient world we live in.

Much of my practice examines the relationship between psychological and architectural space.

Impermanence and transformation in relation to matter and consciousness are recurring themes in my work.

I often begin my practice by working with a series of complex images from which I edit and abstract into ever simpler compositions.

Location: Margate
Website: www.transientart.googlepages.com
Contact: sallychilds@gmail.com

Dawn Cole
Pushing Print
9th – 31st October 2010

Open submission print exhibition across 3 venues throughout Margate Old Town. Plus, programme of talks by 3 contemporary printmakers, workshops, demonstrations and extreme printmaking with a steam roller

For more info and to download a programme www.pushingprint.co.uk

Allison Carmichael paints beautiful French landscape painting in oil on canvas and has an ongoing show at Outside the Square, a new art gallery in Kent.

Allison Carmichael is a talented artist who also paints portrait paintings and her artwork is inspired by the human form and by the beautiful landscapes of South France.

She is particularly fond of the rich ochre earth and the azure sea reflecting the bluest of blue skies found in the Mediterranean and the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

Location: Margate
Website: www.allisoncarmichael.com/art-gallery-kent
Contact: markfrance2@gmail.com

Beeping Bush Ltd is a pioneering (Industrial and Provident status) digital arts & media design organisation and is a Screen South Community Network Film Delivery Partner for Kent & Medway, supported by The UK Film Council & Kent County Council.

Based in The Community Pharmacy Gallery in the heart of Margate’s historic old town cultural quarter, since 2002. The ground floor offers workshop, studio & arts exhibition space for local individuals and community interest groups, with full disabled access.

The production services above offer professional digital-media services & training for Kent community and business.

The company produces a variety of community and corporate based, educational and promotional digital-media productions & workshops; and provides vocational training and arts exhibition space for local individuals, organisations, charities, and educational establishments.

Clients include; Film Four, BBC Blast, Screen South, KCC Sports Leisure & Olympics, NHS Eastern & Coastal Kent, Kent Adult Education Service, The Childrens Society, Catch22-16Plus, AimHigher, Turner Contemporary, University for the Creative Arts, Creative Partnerships, Future Creative, Artangel, Kidnet, Youth Music Action Zone, Chaulkfoot Theatre Arts.

Location: Margate
Website: www.beepingbush.co.uk
Contact: info@beepingbush.co.uk

Dawn Cole
Printmaking Talks
16th October 2010
Programme of talks by three contemporary printmakers

Jim Anderson – The only rule is there are no rules. Printmaking, recycling and Experimentation

Jason Hicklin – Etchings from the landscape, Ink, paper and the role of corrosion.

Adam Bridgland – Printmaking and my practice

Talks are £5 each or £10 for all 3.
Talks to take place at The Pie Factory, 5-7 Broad Street, Margate, Kent CT9 1EW

Please see our website www.pushingprint.co.uk for full details

Dawn Cole
Call to Artists – Pushing Print

Submission deadline 31st August 2010
Artists are invited to submit to Pushing Print’s second open submission print exhibition. This event provides an opportunity for printmakers and artists whose work responds to print to showcase their work in an exhibition across  5 venues in Margate’s Old Town from 9th – 31st Oct 1010. Submission deadline 5pm Tues 31st August. Exhibition

Prizes: One day introductory screen print session at Bainbridge Studios, London awarded to one artist
Solo exhibition to take place during 2011 awarded to one artist.

Selection Panel:  Monica Petzal  MA RCA, FRSA. Printroom, London
Jan Leandro   Independent Curator

Submission form and guidelines available to download from www.pushingprint.co.uk

Tom Duggan: Lacuna
Exhibition preview:
Saturday 17 April 2010, 6-9pm | Crate Project Space, Bilton Square, Margate CT9 1DX

Exhibition opening dates and times:
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 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.

In some instances we see Duggan proposing fantasies; in others he seems to be preparing to disappear from the world. Seeming to exist both in fiction and in reality, these works reflect Duggan’s apparently simultaneous desires to be known and to be invisible.

Several of the works make attempts at declaring something. In one instance, Duggan claims to have put everything he owns into cardboard boxes. In another work, that the object exhibited is an item stolen from an undisclosed location somewhere in the UK. These claims are either supported with some kind of proof (if the action took place in the past), or presented as a promise (if it is yet to take place); with each, some aspect of the work is either unseen or unspecified.

In contrast to these declarations and promises are the suggestions of imagined exhibitions curated by the artist, for which he has created a series of press releases and floor plans.

Lacuna considers the presentation of the Tom Duggan artist-persona through this institutional framework and its capacity for revealing truths. It asks whether the viewer will accept the disparity between the Tom Duggan who speaks through the institution and the Tom Duggan who, we are told, carries out the series of secretive, isolated and contemplative acts documented in the work.

Lacuna is part of Bad Translation, Crate’s programme for 2009/10.  It is supported by Arts Council England and Kent County Council.

Contact: programme@cratespace.co.uk | http://cratespace.co.uk

Lucy Harrison – The Absent Collector
Exhibition preview: Friday 12 March 2010 6-9pm

Exhibition opening dates and times: 13-14 March 2010 12-5pm and 19-21 March 2010 12-5pm

with contributions from Rebecca Agnes, Kristine Alksne, Salvatore Arancio, Marco Palmieri, Stefania Sales and others

In a new exhibition for Crate, 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.

The London-based artist was visiting Palermo last year when she discovered a carrier bag full of correspondence spanning 20 years. She returned home with the letters, intrigued by what they might reveal of their owner – and what they might withhold. With the help of an Italian speaking friend, she found parallels between the found collection and other ephemera belonging to absent family members which she herself owns.

Following this, she asked various Italian speakers in Italy and the UK, including in Margate, to translate more of the letters into English, and also to interpret and speculate on what the letters might have meant and what they reveal about the correspondents’ lives and relationships.

Her search for Italian connections in the area led her to a local story that casts a different light on what happens to somebody’s possessions when they die. In Project Space 2, Harrison investigates a pamphlet found in the Margate Local History Archive. ‘A Plain Statement of a Late Base Conspiracy’ is the confusing story of a man in Margate in 1837 who felt persecuted by gossip in the town about why his uncle cut him out of his will. The gossip was literally spread around the streets by graffiti and ‘printed placards’.

The Absent Collector is Harrison’s investigation into the process by which the belongings of one who is no longer there have new value judgments placed on them and are often disseminated to various locations and read without the previous owner’s knowledge of why they were kept, or of the specific relationships between the objects that determined their meaning.

By focusing on the idea of an unknown collector, the project considers how others may find or interpret items that were given away, and the way in which those that were kept now signify a void; the writer or receiver of letters no longer being present to clarify points or retell stories.

Harrison’s dissemination of the Sicilian collection is in part an attempt to explore how personal connections and family histories make objects meaningful: that when her collaborators’ input is gathered to form a new collection, it might create a portrait of the vacuum that is created when someone dies.

The exhibition also examines the act of ‘reading’ a collection of objects – whether they be letters, objects, photographs – highlighting the role of guesswork in the absence of the original collector, and the extent to which one’s understanding of collections is guided by one’s own desires rather than curatorial or objective agendas. Furthermore, it considers the impact that this act of reinterpretation can have in the real world.

The Absent Collector is part of Bad Translation, Crate’s programme for 2009/10.  It is generously supported by Arts Council England and Kent County Council.

S Mark Gubb has been hypnotised and is working with East-Kent based fanzine Road Kill to rediscover his youth – specifically, his late teens, which he spent as a heavy metal and hardcore-loving musician and skateboarder in Margate.

Gubb(35) taped himself undergoing hypnotic regression, later producing a typescript which forms the source material for a new zine of drawings made by Roadkill, which will also be realised as a ‘walk-in zine’ in Crate’s Project Space in Margate.

Crate will be holding an exhibition of fanzines and artists’ books to coincide with History of a Time to Come, featuring contributions from Road Kill – who will be bringing hand-printed hoodies and T-shirts as well as zines – and other self-publishers from Kent, including artist Lucy Harrison, who has a solo exhibition at Crate in March.

There should be thirty or forty contributors in total from Kent and further afield.

Entry is free, and all contributors will have work for sale. Non-contributors are welcome to bring their own fanzines to show and swap.

History of a Time to Come is part of Bad Translation, Crate’s programme for 2009/10. It is generously supported by Arts Council England and Kent County Council.

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