18 Holes - Folkestone Triennial 2008 Art Work
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Fake Beach Hut's created for Folkestone's Triennial 2008 celebrations.
Waymark Code: WMDWB0
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/01/2012
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As part of Folkestone's 2008
Triennial celebrations, works of art were commissioned and sited throughout the
town. This work is by artist Richard Wilson.
The former Rotunda Amusement
Park sited along Marine Parade, Folkestone, was sold in 2003 with ambitious
plans for the building of a more modern development to include 600+ homes, a
multi screen cinema, bowling alley, 2 storey health club and 2000 parking spaces
for the seafront visitors. A slow and gradual decline of the park and equally
slow demolition began way into 2007 before nothing remained. The only visible
remnant of the former park was the overgrown 'Crazy Golf' course.
Wilson excavated and cut 18
slabs of concrete from former crazy Golf Course and reassembled them as a
tribute to the former tourist attraction. The 3 'Crazy' Beach Huts are sited
just a few hundred meters away from their original site, alongside real
Folkestone breeze block beach huts.