project highlights
Public Art Series
This month, we are highlighting projects we have curated for the public realm and urgent debates by local residents reflecting on the role of public art and gentrification in a small seaside town.
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David Batchelor
Oct – Nov 2021
Part of the Tannery Arts Billboard project curated by Nina Shen – a photograph by David Batchelor, who has been photographing blank, white, rectangular panels that he finds in the streets of the cities he visits, from London to Sāo Paulo.
public art in folkestone, what’s the point?
Sarah Hagues
Feb 2022
Local resident, Sarah Hagues invites artists, curators, and a group of teenagers from Syria to explore the public’s relationship to art, the impact of gentrification, the future of public art, and what good it actually does for a seaside town.