NESTLED into Kendal’s cultural quarter Cross Lane Projects aims to bring new contemporary art and debate to Cumbria.

A gallery space on Cross Lane, off Kirkland, CLP was opened by artists Rebecca Scott and Mark Woods in June.

Next in Rebecca and Mark’s exhibition programme is Francis Richardson’s Not Even Nothing Can Be Free Of Ghosts.

Francis was the recipient of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2017/18.

Coordinated by London’s Standpoint Gallery, the sculpture award is one of the most significant awards for emerging artists working in the field of sculpture in the UK.

Mark Tanner was a British sculptor who trained at St Martin’s College of Art and had been associated with Standpoint since its inception.

He worked mainly in steel, and was one of the first artists to show in Standpoint Gallery. He died in 1998 after a long illness. The award was established in 2001, on the initiative of and with full sponsorship from a private charitable trust, to keep alive the passion and enthusiasm he had for the making of art.

Offering £8,000 towards the making of new work, the award rewards outstanding and innovative practice, with a particular interest in work that demonstrates a commitment to process, or sensitivity to material.

Francis was selected from 232 applicants and her exhibition has been developed over the period of a year, as the 15th winner of the award.

Francis’s Not Even Nothing Can Be Free Of Ghosts is showing outside of London for the first time as a new initiative to share the award winner’s work with audiences across the north of England.

Cross Lane Projects is situated in the former Kendal Mint Cake factory.

Open Thursday to Sunday, noon-6pm.