2. Spencer Finch, The Colour of Water
3. The Grand Folkestone
INDEX local travel
4. Coastal Park
5. The Leas Ariel
6. Rocksalt
Dame revisited
boy and Gordon Ramsay protoge, Mark Sargeant. We didn’t eat there, but broadsheet reviews have said that, while service can be wobbly, the food (with a menu including plenty of fresh fi sh and Romney Marsh Lamb) is excellent. Just opposite is The Old Smokehouse – also run by Sargeant – where cod- and-chips-to-go will set you back £7.95. Again, the service here wasn’t much cop (slow and
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2 & 8 Thierry Ball; 6 & 7 Mark Whitfi eld & Ashley Gendek / Guy Hollaway Architects; 9
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8. A K Dolven, Out of Tune, Folkestone Triennial 2011
with no one appearing to be in charge) – but the batter was exceptionally light and crispy. Other food options including heading up the hill for an ice- cream sundae or old-fashioned afternoon tea at one of the hotels on the Leas – The Grand is hard to beat: £9 for the full monty. And if you want to make a weekend of it, a room here will set you back around £119 including breakfast.
7. Rocksalt
Triennial highlights
are available at any of the installations or at the Triennial Offi ce and it’s well worth checking out the website in advance to help you pre-plan your visit, but don’t miss: The Folkestone mermaid –
M
Cornelia Parker’s life-size, life- cast statue, a tribute to more idealised Copenhagen piece – is modelled on mother-of-
aps to guide you around a walkable trail
two, Folkestone-born-and-bred Georgina Baker. Presumably the seaweed hair is the artist’s invention... Out of Tune – a large church bell, previously rejected for being ‘out of tune’ with others in the belfry – is suspended high above the beach in AK Dolven’s installation. Visitors can pull the rope and hear its non-conformist voice ring out loud and true. Powerful
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and moving. Hew Locke’s nautical installation, ‘For Those In Peril on the Sea’. Hanging from the nave of St Mary and St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone’s oldest building, are 100 or so model boats of every description – warships, trawlers, steamers, liners, brigs, rafts and junks, garnered from around the world. Locke hopes that the piece will, “
...stimulate
thoughts on globalisation, and on illegal immigration, people smuggling, drug smuggling and contemporary piracy.” The Leas lift – now fi tted
with suitably atmospheric music to accompany the steep descent.
What Colour is the Sea
Today? Spencer Finch’s colour wheel brings a whole new dimension to the pantone colour chart.
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