Tag: Christopher Houghton Budd
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Folkestone Triennial 2021: The Plot
This is the town’s fifth triennial, an ambitious and remarkable event, but has the money ploughed into the arts over the years done anything to address Folkestone’s social and economic problems?
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genuinefake – interview: ‘I use my creative practice to try to start conversations and dialogue about access, our aspirations … and agency’
Along Folkestone’s seafront, the artist genuinefake (AKA Rachel Stella Jenkins) has conjured a temporary geodesic dome of playful community-led investigation around Folkestone’s past and future, on the site of the Rotunda, the former amusement arcade building. Studio International asked her…
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Christopher Houghton Budd – interview: ‘What’s needed here is a high street all the way from the town hall to the lighthouse, without interruption, for pedestrians’
Economist-turned-artist Houghton Budd, who moved to Folkestone seven years ago, has created a most effective artwork to illustrate his point for the 2021 triennial. He talks with Studio International about his journey towards the creation of Forgiving Light, as well…
