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Generator Projects

about: 

Generator is a Dundee-based organisation established in 1996. The aims of the organisation are to generate creative practices across Dundee through providing sustained support towards creativity in all its diversity and a varied programme of exhibitions and events.

Alongside the primary aim of being collectively held by those who wish to engage and support the continuation of the organisation, Generator hosts a project and exhibition space better known as Generator Projects. This space was established to allow creative practitioners, developing experimental, critical and autonomous work, the opportunity to exhibit. It is facilitated by the Generator committee, a rolling collective of volunteers, who dedicate two years of their time to ensure the continuation of this programmed space and the broader aspects of the organisation.

Generator Projects is also home to the developing Member Space. Initiated during the 2013 Member Show, this hospitable space is being created for dedicated member-led activity. The space will continue to be developed over the coming year in response to the voiced needs of Generator members. This could include access to resources and a neutral space for peer-learning and critical discourse through the programming of responsive talks, events and artworks to the Generator programme and wider interests and concerns of the Generator members.

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  • charity

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management/organisers/directors/board/committee: 

Ruth Aitken (present committee)
Yvonne Billimore (present committee)
Holly Keasey (present committee)
James Lee (present committee)
Kirsty McKeown (present committee)
Katherine Murphy (present committee)

address: 

25/26 Mid Wynd Industrial Estate
DD1 4JG. Dundee 56° 27' 24.426" N, 2° 59' 19.9176" W
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1996

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Limbo

about: 

Limbo is an artist-led organisation based at the former electrical substation off Margate's High Street.

Limbo was set-up to create a resource supporting cultural development and experimentation in Thanet and beyond; providing affordable artist studios a gallery/project space and a programme of exhibitions, artist residencies, events and off-site projects.

Through its projects Limbo aims to create new points of reference or entry, through which challenging and unfamiliar ideas and methodologies can be experienced and discussed.

The project space at the Substation is the focal point for Limbo’s exhibition programme. It appears to be in transition: gallery lighting and whitened walls contrast with the imposing industrial structure of the room, where the transformers, rectifiers and switchgear once stood. Limbo takes inspiration from this aesthetic, aiming to bring different histories and practices together in one place.

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  • community interest company

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The Substation is centrally located in Margate, just off the High Street and a two-minute walk from the harbour. Margate is on the North East coast of Kent and just a two-hour ferry ride from France.

The building dates back to 1849, when it was apparently erected and functioning as coach house, stables, wash house and storehouse for Thomson and Son Brewers. In 1902 the property was sold for a mere £1,598.2s.9d to the Isle of Thanet Electric Tramways and Lighting Company and became part of a significant social and economic change, providing communication in the form of light, power and traction. High voltage alternating current from the generating station at nearby St Peters was passed through a series of step-down transformers and finally converted to DC using mercury arc rectifiers. This direct current was used to power an extended tramline and to provide lighting and domestic electricity for parts of Margate.

Use of DC for domestic consumers was unusual and potentially dangerous, but this spare capacity brought early access to electric power to the population of Margate. During the night the generators were shut down and a massive bank of batteries with “265 Tudor Cells” provided power for the early morning and late night trams, as well as for domestic lighting (the generators at St Peters were also shut down overnight). This arrangement lasted into the 1920s when demand for domestic and industrial power at night became too great. When the tramlines were finally closed down in the late 1930s the Substation continued to provide DC power to Dreamland amusement park until it converted to AC in the 1970s.

The substation equipment now sits outside at the front of the building in the space previously occupied by a lean-to veranda.

management/organisers/directors/board/committee: 

Paul Hazelton (Artistic Director)
Matthew de Pulford (Artistic Director)
Lizzy Rose (Curatorial Assistant)
Tam Hare (Curatorial Assistant)
Lisa Hawkins (Studio Manager)

address: 

Substation Project Space
2 Bilton Square High Street
CT9 1EE Margate 51° 23' 19.6476" N, 1° 22' 51.1932" E
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  • private

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2006

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Crate

Crate Space, Margate

about: 

Crate is an artist-led organisation based in East Kent supporting contemporary visual artists’ research and practice. Crate promotes critical debate and the exchange of ideas without prescribed outcomes.
Based in an old print works near the sea front in Margate, Crate’s building has been bought and refurbished with major support from Arts Council England South East, East Kent Partnership and Thanet District Council. The building opened in July 2006.

The building combines working and project space and is designed to give artists access to dedicated, affordable space for experimentation, production, documentation and research. There are three floors of studios, and two project spaces on the ground floor. The project spaces are available for short-term use by practitioners, alongside a programme initiated by Crate.

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  • charity

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Print Works

management/organisers/directors/board/committee: 

Moyra Derby (Trustee)
Sue Jones (Trustee)
Stacy Keeler (Trustee)
Chris Yates (Trustee)
Nova Marshall (Company Secretary)

curators: 

Sacha Waldron (2013-14)
Toby Huddlestone (2011-12)
Matthew de Pulford (2009-10)

address: 

1 Bilton Square
CT9 1EE Margate 51° 23' 17.7072" N, 1° 22' 50.412" E
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Website

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  • open plan

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2006

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