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Great art by the seaside
22 July – 2 November 2021
Free and open to all
creativefolkestone.org.uk
Folkestone Triennial 2021: The Plot
22 July – 2 November 2021
The Plot focuses on movement, circulation and may impact on, the environment: both its
and narration. It charts (the body’s) stories and its bricks and mortar. As curator,
movement through the environment: I research ‘opportunities’: sites that have a
the impact of the urban landscape on us potential energy for change in the present,
and our impact on it. The urban landscape development in the future, or for recovery
is constantly changing, with people, goods, of the past. Then I look for an artist whose
traffic, money, knowledge and stories practice fits well with that opportunity and
circulating through it to keep it alive and in who might like to engage with it. I hope this
flux. Each of the exhibition’s three plots or approach to art is as holistic as possible,
‘ways’ is a story and an image of movement foregrounding the ways materiality and
and circulation. narrative flow into one another. It is at the
interface where reality and myth meet that
For this exhibition, I invite the visitor to be art and culture, the marvelous and the
equally aware of stories and of the urban miraculous, spring into life.
environment as sensed through our bodies.
A plot is a narrative. A plot can also refer to To appreciate art, we need to question as
something tangible or verifiable: a plot of we look, to consider the context as well as
ground or plotting a graph. There’s a place the object, and use our own imagination in
between these two meanings that is dialogue with the artist’s. Each of the ‘ways’
especially creative and interesting, when that flow through the exhibition evokes a part
plotting draws on both conceptual and of Folkestone’s history and offers a rationale
material realities. A ‘conspiracy’ is when for why the town appears how it does today.
a group of people aspire to turn ‘their’ They are presented in historical sequence –
narrative into a reality. In this sense, art is a medieval way, an Enlightenment way and
a plot. A shared belief between artists and an industrial/post-industrial way. But the
their audience creates a reality from an idea, exhibition’s subject is the artworks, not the
rumour or myth. town. Every place may seem special, but
human needs are the same everywhere.
Most good art is made from materials that If an artist addresses this specific environment
make us feel, with narratives that make us with sufficient insight, then the artwork will
think. As an outdoor exhibition The Plot is have universal resonance.
unavoidably contextualised by physical
surroundings. Artists are invited to make Lewis Biggs, Curator,
new artworks that will be seen in relation to, Folkestone Triennial 2021
Cover: Rana Begum, No. 1054 Arpeggio
Left: Atta Kwami, Atsiaƒu ƒe agbo nu
(Gateways Of The Sea) 2020
All artworks have been commissioned for Folkestone
Triennial 2021 unless otherwise acknowledged.
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A1 Patrick Corillon A4 Winter / Hörbelt
On the Track of St Eanswythe’s St Eanswythe’s Return
Waterway 1 Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt’s sculpture marks the
Co-commissioned for Creative Folkestone place where St Eanswythe’s Water used to run, and the scar on
Triennial 2021 under the Nouveaux the urban landscape created by the gyratory. The dark steel
Commanditaires programme of the wall and bright tree-fountain suggest the blockage of the
Fondation de France, curated by watercourse and its possible future return. The sculptural tree
artconnexion (Lille). replaces one that died while the artwork was in planning.
These five sculptural ‘relic-boxes’ have been A4 Location: RUMBLE.INCREASED.OMBUDSMAN
inspired by the artist’s dialogue with a group
of local residents. Located along the course of
the historic St Eanswythe’s waterway, each
box is different. The words and objects refer
A5 Patrick Corillon
to children’s games and to St Eanswythe On the Track of St Eanswythe’s Waterway 4
herself: the patron saint of Folkestone who See A1.
is said to have made water run uphill. A5 Location: GEESE.BOUNDED.MESS
A1 Location: ADMIRINGLY.ALONE.OBVIOUSLY
A2 Patrick Corillon A6 Stephenie Bergman
On the Track of St Eanswythe’s Blood Branches
Waterway 2 This two-part ceramic sculpture was inspired by William
See A1. Harvey’s discovery that oxygenated red blood flows in the
A2 Location: SHOWCASES.IMPROVES.REJECT arteries and de-oxygenated blue blood flows in the veins.
The artist saw an affinity between the branches of trees and
the blood system in mammals. The artwork is presented within
the William Harvey exhibition at Folkestone Museum from
Wednesday 28 July, opening hours Tuesday–Saturday,
10am–4pm. www.folkestonemuseum.co.uk
A6 Location: FOLLOWING.CUPBOARDS.SNATCHED
A3 Patrick Corillon A7 Sam Belinfante
On the Track of St Eanswythe’s On the Circulation of Blood
Waterway 3 This ‘performed sculpture’ is named after William Harvey’s
See A1. book that explains the blood system of mammals. The netting
A3 Location: VOTED.CRAFT.OVERPOWER and poles here in Market Place are carried by performers to
two other key sites in the town. The artist has commissioned
the composition of several duets to accompany the performers,
who also carry lights. Please see the website for performance
times: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk
A7 Location: SUNBLOCK.CAMCORDER.AWARDS
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A8 Patrick Corillon A12 Jacqueline Poncelet
On the Track of St Eanswythe’s Waterway 5 Shimmera
See A1. This, the last of five sculptures, marks the end-point The striking patterns of shimmer discs
of the waterway – a pond that served the needs of the nearby decorating the gables at each end of the
Priory, as well as the military position on The Bayle. From here ‘cabins’ have been designed by the artist to
the surplus water (the waterway had a powerful flow) had celebrate and articulate the energy of the
to find its way back down to the Pent via The Old High Street recently recovered public footpaths between
and Mill Bay. The Old High Street, Payers Park and Tontine
A8 Location: MARMALADE.DIALECTS.ROOFS Street. The designs have a green accent
heading towards the Park, and a blue one
travelling towards Tontine Street and the sea.
A12 Location: FAKES.REPORTER.APPARATUS
A9 Stephenie Bergman
Blood Letters O
These ceramic sculptures refer to blood types, and they are
placed on these pathways to draw attention to the circulation
of people through the town as a sign of health, like the
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circulation of blood in the body. Parade Steps used to connect Blood Letters A
the military position on The Bayle, commanding the harbour, See A9. St Michael’s Steps
with the strand below. used to connect the streets on
A9 Location: ANALOGY.CREATURES.PURELY the high ground above with
the tidal inlet now hidden
beneath Tontine Street.
A13 Location:
A10 Stephenie Bergman HUMBLE.ADMIRINGLY.
Blood Letters AB ALLOWABLE
See A9. There used to be a slaughterhouse at the top of the
Bail Steps, and the overflow of water from the Bayle Pond
would have been used to clean out the blood there before
draining down these steps.
A10 Location: OTTERS.SHUDDERS.DECREASE
A14 Christopher Houghton Budd
Forgiving Light
This circle of light-posts marks the centre of
the town: the point where a bridge crossed
A11 Stephenie Bergman over the mouth of the Pent River allowing
Blood Letters B traffic from The Old High Street to gain
See A9. This ancient pathway has recently been re-opened to access to the fishing village around what is
create a direct connection between The today The Stade. Hoping for a more beautiful
Old High Street and Tontine Street during the daytime. and pedestrian-friendly central area, the
A11 Location: VILLA.MEGAWATT.VISUAL artist calls it The Plaza.
A14 Location: ENGRAVING.GRAPH.FIELD
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B1 Pilar Quinteros B3 Sam Belinfante
Janus Fortress: Folkestone On the Circulation of Blood
Co-commissioned for Creative Folkestone The old net drying ground and St Peter’s School suggest
Triennial 2021 and England’s Creative Coast ‘industry and education’. Please see the note at A7,
Waterfronts with Turner Contemporary. and visit the website for performance times:
Janus was the Roman god of beginnings www.creativefolkestone.org.uk
and transitions, between past and future. B3 Location: GENTLE.WATCHDOGS.NERVY
The sculpture faces towards both mainland
Europe and England, connecting them,
as Folkestone has always done whether as
a fort or a port. It is made of chalk and will
disintegrate over the course of the exhibition,
as a reflection on the erosion of the coastline.
B4 Diane Dever
B1 Location: WARBLERS.REMODELS.VIBE Urban Room Folkestone 2017
Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2017.
In 2017 Urban Room Folkestone (UR Folkestone) occupied
The Customs House on the Harbour Arm. It continues as
an idea, an information resource and as a programme of
activities, housed in this former Tourist Information pavilion.
UR Folkestone is dedicated to remembering the history of
the town and encouraging debate about its future.
B4 Location: WICKED.LINES.POUNCES
B2 Mariko Hori B5 genuinefake
Mellowing the Corners FORTUNE HERE (for Urban Room Folkestone)
Folkestone’s Zig-Zag Path was built in the Inspired by The Rotunda amusement park formerly
1920s to appear as natural rocks and grottos. on this site (demolished more than 15 years ago) this
Designed by James Pulham, this fake rock artwork is a contribution to UR Folkestone’s programme.
surface encases waste material which is Its ‘infotainments’ promote alternatives to current models
now wearing thin and exposing the rubbish of urban production and co-operation that might be better
within. This story inspired the artist to create aligned to the aspirations and needs of communities. More
Pulhamite ‘boulders’ containing objects fundamentally, they aim to encourage people to be active
donated by residents – acting as time influencers themselves.
capsules as the objects gradually appear B5 Location: TORCHED.PHOTOS.STATED
in the future.
B2 Location: RABBLE.DODGES.WRENCHING
B6 Gilbert & George
RESPECT ROAD 2020
Exhibited courtesy of the artists.
Every building site presents itself as the work of ‘considerate
contractors’ and this artwork overlooks Folkestone’s biggest
construction site. The artists have always created pictures
that capture the essence of contemporary urban life and
reflect on the meanings that we find whenever our thoughts
engage with our looking.
B6 Location: TONSILS.FUEL.STINT
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B7 Bill Woodrow B11 Jason Wilsher-Mills
The Ledge 2017 I Am Argonaut
Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2017. Commissioned for Creative Folkestone
This modernist composition, echoing the white cliffs beyond, Triennial 2021 and produced by Shape Arts
supports figures of an Inuit and a seal, and sits on a black as part of the Adam Reynolds Award.
puddle shape. Sited by the shore, the strong horizontals This contemporary monumental figure
suggest rising water levels resulting from the disappearing describes and expresses the world as
polar ice caps, an iceberg melting into a pool of oil. The experienced by the artist, whose disabilities
figures are on thin ice. were caused by a disease of the blood cells.
B7 Location: PROSPERED.PICNIC.MENTIONED It references the artist’s research into the life
and work of William Harvey, whose
monument stands close by.
B8 Mariko Hori B11 Location: SUNBLOCK.SCRIPT.LATCHED
Mellowing the Corners
See B2. This time-capsule
boulder takes its place as one
among others on the beach.
B12 Gilbert & George
B8 Location: BLOOD CITY 1998 and
REMOTES.DOCTOR.TONAL BLOOD ROADS 1998
Exhibited courtesy of the artists.
Each of these pictures present the same two
ideas in counterpoint: the representation of
the city through the mapping of streets and
blocks of housing, and the ‘mapping’ of blood
B9 Rana Begum cells moving through veins and arteries.
No. 1054 Arpeggio B12 Location:
Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 in AMBUSHED.EARMARKED.HARMONY
partnership with Folkestone & Hythe District Council.
The graduated colour scheme and the insistent rhythm of the
design have turned a half-mile marching rank of beach huts
into notes of colour on a keyboard. Arpeggio is a musical term
meaning a chord broken into a sequence of notes played in an
ascending or descending order.
B13 Atta Kwami
B9 Location: SOIL.LIMITS.RESTS Dusiadu (EveryTown) 2020
This group of sculptures are in conversation
with each other; and corralled by the flowing
B10 Sam Belinfante traffic. Derived from traditional West African
On the Circulation of Blood street-vending kiosks, kiosks like these are
This amphitheatre in the Lower Leas Coastal sites for the exchange of money and goods,
Park suggests a place for leisure, sport and for the currency of knowledge, and for the
culture in the town. Please see A7 and the circulation of stories. The artist is from Ghana,
website for performance times: and the title is in the Ewe language.
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk B13 Location: CALLER.SUCKLE.ENGINEERS
B10 Location: BACK.CORROSIVE.RESULTS
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C1 Richard Deacon C4 Gilbert & George
Benchmark 1-5 BEHAVE 2014
Wooden benches on concrete bases provide Exhibited courtesy of the artists.
comfort for visitors enjoying these beautiful The picture draws the attention of visitors
gardens. The artist noticed a number of arriving in the town to the contested powers
empty bases and was inspired to respond given to the police to disperse “groups of two
with a series of bench-like sculptures. The rich or more persons in any public place if their
and varied ecology of the gardens suggested presence is likely to result in any members
that he choose different colours of granite in a of the public being intimidated, harassed,
medley for the composition of each sculpture. alarmed or distressed”.
C1 Location: BRILLIANT.BLEACH.SECRETS C4 Location: OFFICE.TWEE.GOLFING
C2 Mariko Hori C5 Jacqueline Poncelet
Mellowing the Corners Looking Ahead
See B2. This time-capsule The site on the other side of this wall has
boulder stands in for a topiary been acquired by Folkestone & Hythe District
bush that was missing from Council for development. Before it was a
the garden’s formal design. gasworks, this was where Folkestone’s first
C2 Location: middle class villas were built. The artist
EMBLEM.BLEND.FOREHEADS creates a sense of celebration with the
kaleidoscopes and bee-eye lenses piercing
the wall like a galactic firework display. She
invites us to look towards the railway viaduct,
the hills and the future.
C5 Location: TICKET.DRAWN.LANDMARK
C3 Bob and Roberta Smith C6
FOLKESTONE IS AN ART SCHOOL 2017 Morag Myerscough
Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Flock of Seagulls Bag of Stolen Chips
Triennial 2017. The artist has created a joyful welcome
Invited to consider whether an art school area and platform offering visitors a view
should be re-established in Folkestone, over the whole former Gasworks site and its
the artist realised that all the skills, environment. She invited local residents to
knowledge and facilities required were talk about the site and has incorporated their
already present in the town – they just words into the design, providing a moment to
needed to be recognised and appreciated celebrate the site and its future development.
differently. His artwork consists of this C6 Location: ACROBATS.SWOONING.TOWEL
‘declaration’, along with 13 ‘pedagogical
videos’ available on our website:
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk
C3 Location: DIALECTS.BUDGET.DEBATE
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C7 Jacqueline Donachie C10 HoyCheong Wong,
Beautiful Sunday Simon Davenport
The Gasworks social club remained active on and Shahed Saleem
the derelict site for many years. The artwork Nūr
‘celebrates all the dance floors of Folkestone’ The industrial building now
past and present – you can find them marked occupied by the Islamic
out on the surface of the stage. The film Community Centre was
documents a line dance called The Slosh. one of the most important
Beautiful Sunday is the title of the 1972 hit in Folkestone, incorporating
song by Daniel Boone. a huge water-wheel driven
C7 Location: HECKLER.RESTING.INCUR by the Pent. The designs for
the 10m high lantern were
evolved through workshops
with the Madrasa and wider
C8 Jyll Bradley Islamic community, while the
Green / Light (For M.R.) 2014 artists have worked with the
Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Centre’s organising
Triennial 2014. committee to present
The sculpture’s aluminium poles and green proposals for the future
acrylic sheets are designed to catch the development of the building.
light, and their circular footprint is that of a C10 Location:
demolished gasometer. The outer square is HOTELS.PURELY.SHOELACES
set out as a hop field, the poles and twine
drawing on Kent’s historic agriculture and
the artist’s childhood memories.
C11 Stephenie Bergman
C8 Location: JUSTIFIES.INDOORS.CRISPS Pills
Before the development of
literacy and graphic signs,
C9 Shezad Dawood shops would advertise by
The Terrarium hanging up their wares
A virtual reality artwork situating viewers outside the door: a kind
300 years into the future: the Earth’s surface of universal language of
is submerged in water and you have been objects. These playful and
modified into a cephalopod hybrid and beautiful ceramic sculptures
released from a laboratory into the now mark the entrance to the
connected Kent-Baltic coastline. The VR is Harbour Medical Practice,
presented alongside Shifter: The Terrarium where many attenders do
Triad, a score by Graham Fitkin. not have English as their
www.upprojects.com/projects/the-terrarium/ first language.
For opening times please visit: C11 Location:
www.kent.gov.uk/libs SPITES.ADMIRINGLY.STIRS
C9 Location: DEPEND.KICKBACKS.CARPENTRY
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C12 Gilbert & George C15 Tina Gverovic
THEY SHOT THEM 2014 Surface Flows
Exhibited courtesy of The roll-on roll-off ferry ramp was once the
the artists. epicentre of Folkestone’s economy and of its
There are two narratives connectedness, bearing uncounted tonnes of
in the picture, one about goods and multitudes of people. The artist’s
‘cleaning up’ sex, and images of floating clothing remind us of the
another one about ending flow of people and goods around the world,
injustice through anarchy. often by water, and generally reaching their
C12 Location: destination, but sometimes foundering.
TANGENT.FRIZZ.DRAGON C15 Location: BUZZ.LOWEST.MAGNITUDE
Gilbert & George
C13
CHAIN BRAIN 2019
Exhibited courtesy of
the artists.
C16 Assemble
Wearing chains as a fashion Skating Situations
statement has been a part The artists have collaborated with local
of contemporary life since skaters to develop ‘skateable sculptures’
the 1970s. Symbolically it starting from the point of view of sporting
evokes a lack of freedom. and aesthetic interest rather than functional
C13 Location: relation to the urban landscape. This group of
CHEEKS.WADES.RIPEN sculptures complements and celebrates F51,
Folkestone’s Olympic standard indoor skate
park, opening in 2021.
C16 Location:
TWIN.SKATE.CONGRATULATIONS
C14 Mike Stubbs C17 Atta Kwami
Climate Emergency Services Atsiaƒu ƒe agbo nu
This sculpture on wheels highlights the value (Gateways of the Sea) 2020
hierarchies of the motor industry: freedom, The artist is best known in this country for his
speed, excitement and pride. The cost of our colourful abstract paintings that refer among
addiction to these values is paid by wasteful other things to architectural environments.
production processes and the contribution of This sculpture reverses that relationship
fossil fuels to climate change and ecological between painting and architecture. It acts as
disaster. Concealed within this conflicted hot a greeting, a welcome point and captures the
rod is a cool laboratory for studying the excitement of arrival at a place where people
climate emergency; and a roving observatory meet at the edge of the sea.
for visiting festivals, schools and events. C17 Location:
C14 Location: SPELL.VALUED.RESULTS RECONNECT.INCLUDES.CLOTHING
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Public Programme Take Your Own Tour of the Artworks
Online and in person
29 September Brendan Walker: Folkestone
Through the Eyes of a Thrill Engineer.
Circulation Revisited
Thursdays 6:30pm, 9 September: Capital,
Plan, personalise and take your friends, family 6 October Bob and Roberta Smith: 16 September: Blood, 23 September: People
Dive deeper into the themes of
or colleagues on a tour of the Triennial at a What Art Education Can Do For A Town. Talks curated by Christopher Houghton Budd
the Folkestone Triennial with our
time, date and distance that suits you. 13 October Dan Atkinson: Plottymouth: that respond to William Harvey’s discovery of
programme of talks, tours and
Comic Triennial Review and Striptease the circulation of the blood.
film screenings. All events are free, Audio Tours with curator Lewis Biggs
(weather dependent).
to find out more visit our website: and guests
20 October Pippa Catterall: Art, Placemaking Urban Room Folkestone 2017
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk Listen on your own device
and Inclusion. Exhibitions, workshops and talks giving
Join Folkestone Triennial curator Lewis Biggs
27 October Lewis Biggs: Plotting: An Evening insight into the town’s history and geography,
Opening Weekend Events while touring Plot A, B or C. For more
to Celebrate, Ask and Be Asked Questions. celebrate its stories and expand thinking
information visit the website.
Skate Jam and Pier Pressure 2021 about its future development.
F51, Creative Folkestone and Skate Films www.urbanroomfolkestone.net
Talks
Folkestone present two weekends of
Still Reeling – Films by and About Let’s Play Plaza
skateboarding action. Intersections – The Story of Folkestone
Folkestone Triennial Artists A selection of events to accompany and
Saturday 24 July, from 1pm Skate Jam: Mosque
Friday 3 September, 6.30pm contextualise Christopher Houghton Budd’s
come skate Skating Situations, a Folkestone Saturday 24 July, 6.30pm, Folkestone Islamic
Celebration of artist Jyll Bradley with the artwork Forgiving Light.
Triennial artwork, at the Harbour Arm. Cultural Centre and Quarterhouse
world premiere of her film M.R. (2021)
Saturday 31 July Pier Pressure 2021: HoyCheong Wong, Shahed Saleem and FORTUNE HERE
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September,
a free skateboarding festival. Simon Davenport with Faruk Miah and Talks and discussions with genuinefake
10am–4pm
www.instagram.com/folkestone51 Shaheen Chowdhury from Folkestone on urban rooms, community interventions,
Films from Pilar Quinteros, Jacqueline
Mosque, on collaboration, making the and the future of Folkestone.
Donachie, Tina Gverović, Patrick Corillon
Tours artwork Nūr and the story of mosques in
and more. World premiere of documentary
Meet at Quarterhouse – booking essential. Britain. Chair: Remona Aly. FOLKESTONE IS AN ART SCHOOL
Stephenie Bergman (work in progress)
A conceptual framework inviting creative
Guided Tours Emergency on Planet Folkestone (2021 dir. Rafael Ortega Ayala).
activities and contributions.
Fridays: 10am, 2pm, 6pm* and Sundays: 10am, Saturday 4 September, 6.30pm, Quarterhouse
Workshops, mentoring, portfolio reviews,
2pm, 4pm (duration 1 hour/up to 2 hours) Join our panel as we tackle some difficult Artist-led events
exhibitions and events. More details to be
Folkestone Triennial tours are an exciting questions. With environment expert Nicholas
On the Circulation of Blood announced.
way to experience the town and the new Thurston and artist Mike Stubbs. Chair:
Saturday 21 July: The Durlocks,
exhibition. Our expert guides include artists, Charlotte Sleigh.
Saturday 14 August: Market Place, National Student Days
educators, a composer, a running coach, an
Breath and Water, Blood and Bones Saturday 16 October: The Lower Leas
explorer, an actor and a lecturer in film. National Student Days
Saturday 2 October, 4pm–7pm, St Mary Sam Belinfante processions and
*6pm Friday tours will run until the end of Thursday 21 and Friday 22 October,
and St Eanswythe’s Church performances, with illuminated evening
August only. 10.30am–5pm, Quarterhouse
Historian Lesley Hardy, Dr Sarah Montgomery events plus choreographed light display.
Gathering students from universities and
Critics’ Tours and musician Grenville Hancox explore
Terrarium colleges across the UK. Guided tours, panel
Saturdays 11am and 2.30pm (duration 2 hours) William Harvey, St Eanswythe and the
A public programme exploring the talks from the Triennial team, film screenings
Join an art critic and tour artworks. circulation of breath, blood and myth in
exhibition’s connection to Kent and quiz.
31 July Will Jennings, independent artist, this ancient building. Chair: Joanna Labon.
Shezad Dawood explores the Kent
writer and curator. The Matter of Circulation
The Plot in The Clearing, Quarterhouse coastline with researchers and activists.
28 August Skye Sherwin, art writer for Saturday 23 October, 10.30am–5pm
Wednesdays 6.30pm – seven hosted talks www.upprojects.com/projects/the-terrarium
The Guardian. Postgraduate research event with keynote
with expert speakers, drinks and conversation
25 September Jennifer Thatcher, art critic speakers Prof. Lewis Biggs and Dr Gilda
15 September Emily Ghassempour:
and course leader at Sotheby’s. Williams. How is art and design able draw
Why Diversity in Stories Matters.
30 October Richard Dyer, Editor-in-Chief, our attention to the gap between narrative
22 September Helen Lindon: Art and Activism,
Third Text. and reality, promise and execution from a
Sea Levels and Folkestone.
material perspective?
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Education 360 Folkestone with Young Animators
Saturday 9 October, 11am–3pm
Envisage Folkestone in the distant future and take us there.
All Saturday family workshops are free, drop-in sessions at our
Join artist and animator Lydia Hibbert to create a multimedia
studio at Block 67, Mill Bay, Folkestone, CT20 1JG. Just turn up.
scene inspired by the immersive environments of Shezad
All workshops are run according to current government guidelines.
Dawood. Photograph your artwork using a 360-degree
camera and then step inside your own world using a Virtual
Play Making with Leap Then Look
Reality headset.
Saturday 4 September and 18 September, 12pm–4pm
How can we create a space to play and make? Join artists
All Experiences Dissolve Into Experience with Sam Ayres
Leap Then Look to create a playful, ever-changing installation
Saturday 16 October, 11am–3pm
which will grow and evolve over the course of the day.
Inspired by the Folkestone Triennial themes of circulation
Inspired by Folkestone Triennial themes, we will explore
of blood and the movement of water, we will work with inks
different sets of materials, encouraging families to work
on recycled and reclaimed materials, exploring the flow of
together to make structures, create games and build a
knowledge and how learning connects our brains and bodies
shared collaborative environment.
to the world around us.
Power Objects with Katrin Albrecht
Looking Re-looking with Nicole Cowan
Saturday 11 September, 11am–3pm
Saturday 23 October, 11am–3pm
Taking inspiration from Mariko Hori’s sculptures, Mellowing
Inspired by Jaqueline Poncelet’s Looking Ahead, we will think
the Corners, come and make your own object of power.
about how we can view something in many different ways.
We will be looking at examples from different cultures for
Creating our own viewfinders, we will use photography,
inspiration. Bring something tiny and personal like a bead,
drawing and projections to fill the space and create a layered
ribbon, pebble, whisker, twig, hair, image or whatever small
installation by looking, re-looking and then looking again!
item you would like to work into your object.
Plotting with Emily Martin
The Best in Us with Young Animators
HALF TERM Wednesday 27 October, 11am–3pm
Saturday 25 September, 11am–3pm
Inspired by Folkestone Triennial’s theme The Plot, we will look
Create a Jason Wilsher-Mills inspired colourful character and
at three historic Folkestone narratives and their journeys within
bring it to life. Animate your character dancing or waving and
cartography. Referring to the passages of movement, we will
even interact with your character using augmented reality.
create unique and personal maps of Folkestone and explore
Jason Wilsher-Mills’ drawings and sculptures are a salute to
mark making through various printing techniques.
all that makes us unique and celebrate strong personalities.
We will find out about the brilliant personalities of some
Celebrate Folkestone with Louella Ward and Hannah Lucas
amazing Folkestonians; the one next door, the ones from
Saturday 30 October, 11am–3pm
history and the ones that make our town great. Give your
Create your own Morag Myerscough inspired placards!
character that part of you that makes you brilliant, and share
We will experiment with poetry, collage and painting to
your work in a celebration of big, colourful personalities.
make statements celebrating Folkestone, and what it
means to belong and connect with one another.
Drawing Sculpture with Jeni Johnson
Saturday 2 October, 11am–3pm
Inspired by Stephenie Bergman’s ceramic sculptures that
play on the forms we associate with medicine – from pills Scan the QR code to find all of our Folkestone Triennial
to organs, veins and arteries – we will experiment with creative resources for primary schools, secondary schools
drawing with clay and wood to create our own playful, and families… For information on our schools’ programmes
wearable sculpture objects. please contact taniamccormack@creativefolkestone.org.uk
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2 Yoko Ono, SKYLADDER Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (2) 27 Tracey Emin, Baby Things Is A Third To Place And Time 53 Richard Wilson, 18 Holes In The Style Of Nicholas
3 Diane Dever and Jonathan 14 Richard Wentworth, Racinated 28 Tracey Emin, Baby Things 41 Banksy, Art Buff 54 Richard Wentworth, Racinated Hawksmoor
Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (3) 15 Diane Dever and Jonathan 29 Richard Wentworth, Racinated 42 Paloma Varga Weisz, 55 Adam Chodzko, Pyramid 65 Mark Wallinger, Folk Stones
4 Nathan Coley, Heaven Is A Place Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (1) 30 Richard Wentworth, Racinated Rug People 56 Ruth Ewan, We Could Have 66 Richard Wentworth, Racinated
Where Nothing Ever Happens 16 Amalia Pica, Souvenir 31 Hamish Fulton, 31 Walks From 43 Richard Woods, Holiday Home Been Anything That We 67 Richard Wentworth, Racinated
5 Jonathan Wright, Fleet On Foot, 17 Amalia Pica, Souvenir Water To Water 1971-2010 44 Richard Woods, Holiday Home Wanted To Be 68 Pae White, Barking Rocks
(10) 18 Strange Cargo, 32 Tonico Lemos Auad, Carrancas 45 Sarah Staton, Steve 57 Will Kwan, Apparatus #9 69 Richard Woods, Holiday Home
6 Diane Dever and Jonathan The Luckiest Place On Earth 33 Diane Dever and The Decorators, 46 Tracey Emin, Baby Things (The China Watchers: Oxford 70 Richard Wentworth, Racinated
Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (4) 19 Tracey Emin, Baby Things Urban Room Folkestone 47 Michael Sailstorfer, University, MI6, HSBC) 71 Richard Wentworth, Racinated
7 Michael Craig-Martin, 20 Bob and Roberta Smith, 34 rootoftwo, Whithervanes: Folkestone Digs 58 Christian Boltanski, 72 Tracey Emin, Baby Things
Folkestone Lightbulb FOLKESTONE IS AN A Neurotic Early Worrying 48 Cornelia Parker, The Whispers
8 Diane Dever and Jonathan ART SCHOOL System (NEWS), (2) The Folkestone Mermaid 59 David Shrigley, Lamp Post
Wright, Pent Houses 1-5, (5) 21 muf Architecture/Art, 35 Lubaina Himid, 49 Gary Woodley, Impingement (As Remembered)
9 Tracey Emin, Baby Things Payers Park Jelly Mould Pavilion No. 66 ‘Cube Circumscribed 60 Spencer Finch,
10 Sinta Tantra, 1947 22 Rigo 23, Through The Glassworks 36 A K Dolven, Out Of Tune By Tetrahedron – Tetrahedron The Colour Of Water
11 rootoftwo, Whithervanes: and Earth’s Oldest Satellite 37 Sol Calero, Casa Anacaona Circumscribed By Cube’ 61 Yoko Ono, Earth Peace
A Neurotic Early Worrying 23 Yoko Ono, SKYLADDER 38 Antony Gormley, 50 Tracey Emin, Baby Things 62 Cristina Iglesias, Towards Mark Dion, Mobile Gull Appreciation
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12 Amalia Pica, Souvenir 25 Amalia Pica, Souvenir 39 Patrick Tuttofuoco, FOLKESTONE Ser-Od, Siren 63 Richard Wentworth, Racinated at special events.)Folkestone Triennial 2021
Quarterhouse Creative Quarter
Quarterhouse is the award-winning Folkestone’s Creative Quarter is an urban village of designers, filmmakers,
performing arts hub of Creative musicians, web developers and artists.
Folkestone.
A stone’s throw from the sea and less than Don’t take our word for it, get lost in the
Based on Tontine Street, in the heart of an hour from London, Folkestone’s Creative Creative Quarter and see what you can find.
Folkestone’s Creative Quarter amidst a Quarter is home to hundreds of creatives
vibrant community of artists’ studios, shops, who contribute to and support the creative Save the date… why not join us for
bars and spaces, Quarterhouse presents a community, making Folkestone one of the Open Quarter and explore the area’s
year-round programme of contemporary best places in the world… but we would say hidden spaces from Friday 10 – Friday
theatre, dance, music, comedy, film, live that wouldn’t we? 17 September 2021.
screenings and family shows. Quarterhouse
also supports artist development, our creative
community, and many local festivals.
This autumn look out for:
Edgy music gigs from The Staves and
This Is The Kit
Searing comedy from Mark Watson
and Bridget Christie
Flamenco- and Kathak-inspired
performances from Agudo and
Pagrav Dance Companies
Brilliant theatre by Frozen Light and
Emily Jenkins
Mrs H & the Singalong Band who will
provide our popular wig-out for toddlers
Our monthly Documentary Club screenings
– Doc Club, and
A brand-new Documentary Film Festival
We round off the year on Sunny Sands
beach with Beacons, a specially composed
sound and light installation on the winter
solstice by Folkestone-based artist and
scenographer Alison Neighbour with
composer Emily Peasgood.
For more information or to book tickets
visit our website or call our Box Office on
01303 760740.
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Folkestone Fringe Triennial 2021 Thank you to our supporters...
Since its inception in 2008, the Creative Folkestone Triennial Sponsored by Founding Funder
has been accompanied by a Fringe programme.
The Folkestone Fringe team apply their 2. Open – ‘SubPlot’
knowledge, skills and experience, gathered Fringe Open collates proposals from across
through working in our communities over the the whole of Folkestone, by acting as the
last 12 years, to enable these programmes to central showcase to promote any creative
form. At the core of this work is an awareness activity happening alongside Folkestone
Supported by
of the role that the arts plays in accessing Triennial. No matter your age, background,
and articulating both individual and societal or experience, Fringe Open supports diverse
meaning. And for 2021, we want to play our voices to step onto public platforms.
part in using the arts and creativity to reflect,
heal and build for the future – through existing 3. Associates – ‘Chapters’
and new ways. The Associates platform, entitled ‘Chapters’,
amplifies the activities of local arts
What’s Happening, Exactly? organisations who have devised and
This year, the Folkestone Fringe Triennial 2021 developed their own programming during
programme cultivates across 3 platforms: Folkestone Triennial. Acting as a go-to hub,
‘Curated’, ‘Open’ and ‘Associates’ the platform provides a single channel of
information for residents and visitors to enjoy
1. Curated – ‘What’s Happening, Exactly?’ the dynamic cultural activity taking shape
A curated platform of 40 events, including across the town, all at once.
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Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 Access
Thursday 22 July – Tuesday 2 November There is wheelchair and motorised scooter
Free and open to all access to as many artworks as possible and
we have done our best to highlight step free
About routes around the exhibition. However, due to
Folkestone Triennial is one of the UK’s largest the historic nature of the town, some artworks
exhibitions of newly commissioned work. are less accessible. Where possible we will
Artists are invited to use the town as their provide BSL interpretation at events and large
gallery creating striking artwork that reflects print information. If there is anything we can
issues affecting both the town and the wider do to make your visit easier, our team will be
world. Returning in 2021 for the fifth time, more than happy to help. Please contact
we are delighted to present The Plot. info@creativefolkestone.org.uk
Immerse yourself in a virtual world, find secret
Public Programme
artworks, learn the latest dance craze, kickflip
With a packed schedule of talks, tours and
over a sculpture, wonder at the urban myths
more, our Public Programme gives you an
of Folkestone and so much more.
opportunity to dive deeper into the ideas and
For more information about Folkestone themes of The Plot. For more information visit
Triennial including artist interviews, page 26 of this booklet or visit our website for
educational resources and more visit our more details.
website: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk
Schools and education
Visiting Folkestone Triennial Throughout Folkestone Triennial, we are
The visitor centre for Folkestone Triennial is offering workshops and fun activities for
located at Quarterhouse (Mill Bay, Folkestone children and families to get creative. If you
CT20 1BN). Open daily from 10am–5pm. would like your school to get involved, contact
Head to the visitor centre to grab your taniamccormack@creativefolkestone.org.uk
exhibition guide, book events or make or turn to page 28.
use of the toilets and changing facilities.
Many of the artworks will be staffed daily Get in touch
by our friendly team of Hosts. To help plan Share your experiences from The Plot
your visit to Folkestone visit our website: and tag us in your best photos and videos:
www.creativefolkestone.org.uk
/creativefolkestone
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Park and Ride
@creativefstone
Pay just £5 to park all day and catch the shuttle
bus to Folkestone and the Harbour. The new If you have any comments or suggestions
service will run from the Motis Business Centre about Folkestone Triennial or any of our
in Cheriton near J12 of the M20, CT19 4 QJ. projects, please email us at
This service will operate every weekend info@creativefolkestone.org.uk
until October and daily during the summer
holidays. Shuttle buses will run every 30
Tell us what you think
minutes between 9am and 6pm to Folkestone More than ever, it is vital we learn
Harbour via Folkestone Central Station. what you thought of this year’s
Creative Folkestone Triennial.
Please complete a short anonymous
Drone photography by Tom Bishop Photography. survey by scanning the QR code.
All other artwork photography by Thierry Bal. Your honest feedback is invaluable.
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