Tag: Folkestone Triennial
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Folkestone Triennial 2025: How Lies the Land?
Sorcha Carey’s first outing as curator of the Folkestone Triennial turns its sixth iteration into a subtle but no less powerful meditation on this distinctive coastal terrain, and the impacts of climate and human activity here and further afield
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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…
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Stefan Brüggemann – interview: ‘The language in the work adapts to the consciousness of the public’
The artist explains why he has painted a building in Folkestone in gold leaf and scrawled OK across it and talks about his forthcoming show of gold paintings done during lockdown, a period that spurred him on to great creativity
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Sol Calero: ‘It’s important that the aesthetics don’t eat the concept’
Beneath the colourful painted surfaces of Sol Calero’s immersive installations, there are deeper, politically informed concepts for those who take the time to unpick the layers
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Folkestone Triennial 2014
For the third edition of this bustling summer exhibition, curator Lewis Biggs has invited a selection of internationally renowned and local artists to produce 21 new artworks in response to specific sites across the town
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rootoftwo: interview
The work of rootoftwo also responds to anxiety, but by measuring social media and people’s response to, and production of, fear on the internet. Five Whithervanes, at locations across town, spin and light up in different colours, according to the…
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Emma Hart: interview
Emma Hart’s work is full of anxiety. Located in an empty domestic space on Tontine Street, Folkestone, it fills the rooms with outlines of glasses, remnants of a party, and video screens that scream out, both in desolation and invitation.…
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Pablo Bronstein: interview
Pablo Bronstein, whose Sketches for Regency Living graced the walls of the ICA in London this summer, has brought to life a sculpture based on the ideas of 18th-century architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Bronstein’s creation is a grey beach hut, next…
