Utopia Triennial Fringe Exhibition

I recently put together a small interim showcase at 14 Tontine Street (B&B Project Space, Folkestone) during the Folkestone triennial period. It featured a custom-built arcade-style games cabinet, a nod to the old Rotunda machines, with a screen running early material from the Side Quest/Utopia project.

I also showed a selection of the Hooden Horses and La Parisienne artefacts, bringing together some of the first pieces that start to hint at the project’s talisman-like imagery and the kinds of interfaces people will eventually use to experience it giving a sense of where things are heading.

I also took part in Salon 186, a pop-up salon-style exhibition held at 186 Dover Road—a space run by Ceri Elliston and Frank Pudney  . It was part of the Folkestone Fringe and took place alongside the Triangle open art platforms. I exhibited photographs from the Collapsing EU project, which resulted from a collaboration with French artists.

Salon 186 is a welcome addition to Folkestone art network. Collapsing.EU was real turning point—it sparked ideas around collaboration, context, and the local-global connections that are now at the core of the current project.