Bob and Roberta Smith, Folkestone is an Art School. Commissioned by the Creative Foundation for Folkestone Triennial 2017. Thierry Bal The triennial began as part of a restoration effort for the town, ...

Seaside resort views don’t get much better than the outlook from The Leas at Folkestone’s cliff-top, with the wide, milky green bay sparkling through fuzzy clouds of dark pine tops, artfully tormented ...

Rule one as a reviewer – don’t read other reviewers reviews before you’ve written yours. For once I couldn’t resist. To be precise I saw a headline on the KentLive webpage: A top art critic has ...

Visitors to the Kentish seaside town of Folkestone this autumn won’t fail to notice the assertion that the town itself “is an art school,” thanks to a socially aware, colourful and bold project by ...

Antony Gormley sculptures lurk under the promenade, Richard Woods invades town with huts for second-homers, while Bob and Roberta Smith treats local kids to art lessons. An eye-catching battle is ...

With Folkestone having reinvented itself as the place to be for the arts, East Kent College Folkestone provides the ideal inspiration for students seeking a career of creativity. In the last five or ...

The third Folkestone Triennial is at its best when artists such as Richard Woods and Bob and Roberta Smith tailor striking works to the town’s geography A small house sits marooned on the beach at ...

One emblematic work is Oceans Tree of Life (all works 2025) by Jennifer Tee, installed above a coastal landslide known as the Warren (main picture). It is adjacent to a dig site where on this overcast ...

Ghosts feature large among the 250 snippets of information alongside memories of childhood games, frequently involving dens built from rubbish dumped in wasteland. For the visitor they bring the town ...