Creative Folkestone Artworks Run

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Folkestone Artworks is the UK's largest urban contemporary art exhibition. It is free and accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and it is based in Folkestone.

The artworks are spread around the town from the harbour and old town to the Leas and Pent Valley. The pieces pop up in both scenic and surprising locations and include works by Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Mark Wallinger and Yoko Ono.

Most of the artworks have been made by the artist as site specific and represent a unique artistic insight. They are added to every three years when the Folkestone Triennial takes place.

Since moving to Folkestone I have wanted to follow the complete trail around the town seeing all 72 artworks. Finally with just a couple of days before I was due to leave I managed it. The run took two hours and covered nine miles. A number of times I had to search for the artwork and kept the watch running. In the end there was just three that I couldn't find - Amalia Pica, Souvenir (Broadmead Rd), Pent House 4, and Adam Chodzco, Pyramid.

I started the run from my workplace in Castle Hill Avenue, headed through town, around The Bayle, down to Tontine Street, along Sunny Sands, along the Harbour Arm, down the seafront, up and back down the Leas, through town, into Pent Valley and back up past the Central Station and to the office.

Here are the photos I took of the art works.

Richard Woods, Holiday Home

 Pae White, Barking Rocks
 Richard Wentworth, Racinated
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated

 Amalia Pica, Souvenir
 Amalia Pica, Souvenir
 Tracey Emin, Baby Things
 Tracey Emin, Baby Things
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
 Yoko Ono, SKYLADDER - inside locked library

 Rigo 23, Through the Glassworks and Earth's Oldest Satellite
 muf Architecture / Art, Payers Park
 Nathan Coley, Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
 Jonathan Wright, Fleet on Foot

 Studio Ben Allen, The Clearing and Yoko Ono, SKYLADDER 2014 - inside Quarterhouse
 Diane Dever and Jonathan Wright, Pent House 3
  Diane Dever and Jonathan Wright, Pent House 2
 Sintra Tantra, 1947, 2017
 Amalia Pica, Souvenir, 2017
 rootoftwo, Whithervanes: A Neurotic Early Worrying System
  Tracey Emin, Baby Things
 Michael Craig-Martin, Folkestone Lightbulb

 Diana Dever and the Decorators, Urban Room Folkestone
 Diana Dever and Jonathan Wright, Pent House 5
 Tonica Lemos Auad, Carrancas
 Hamish Fulton, 31 Walks From Water To Water 1971-2010

 Richard Woods, Holiday Home
 Sarah Staton, Steve

 Michael Sailstorfer, Folkestone Digs

 Cornelia Parker, The Folkestone Mermaid

 Gary Woodley, Impingement No.66 'Cube Circumscribed By Tetrahedron - Tetrahedron Circumscribed By Cube'

 Tracey Emin, Baby Things
 Marc Schmitz and Dolgor Ser-Od, Siren

 Tracey Emin, Baby Things

 Paloma Varga Weisz, Rug People

 Tim Etchells, Is Why The Place?

 Richard Woods, Holiday Home
 Antony Gormley, Anthony Time XVIII
 Patrick Tuttofuoco, FOLKESTONE

 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Weather Is A Third To Place And Time

 Sol Calero, Casa Anacaona

 A K Dolven, Out Of Tune

 Lubaina Himid, Jelly Mould Pavilion

 Bill Woodrow, The Ledge

 Richard Wilson, 18 Holes

  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
 Pablo Bronstein, Beach Hut In Style Of Nicholas Hawksmoor

  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
 Spencer Finch, The Colour Of Water

 Yoko Ono, Earth Peace


 Cristina Iglesias, Towards The Sound Of Wilderness


 David Shrigley, Lamp Post (As Remembered)

 Christian Boltanski, The Whispers

 Will Kwan, Apparatus #9 (The China Watchers: Oxford University, MI6, HSBC)
 Ruth Ewan, We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted To Be


 Mark Wallinger, Folk Stones


  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
 Tracey Emin, Baby Things
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
  Richard Wentworth, Racinated
 Diana Devers and Jonathan Wright - Pent House 1
   Amalia Pica, Souvenir
 Tracey Emin, Baby Things
 Bob and Roberta Smith, FOLKESTONE IS AN ARTSCHOOL
 Strange Cargo, The Luckiest Place On Earth


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