Folly
An MDF replica of a mock-Gothic Temple from Painshill Park near Cobham in Surrey. Built in Cell77’s project space in the basement of a former printworks, Folly served as a stage set-piece for a series of sound and film performances over one weekend by artist collectives Aurora, Enso, Found and Glasgow Drawing Club.
The original Gothic Temple was one of fourteen buildings and bridges built on borrowed money by Charles Hamilton on return from his Grand Tour, along with a Turkish Tent, Doric Temple, Sham Ruined Abbey and Rockwork Grotto. The pleasure garden was a thirty-five year venture that eventually led to Hamilton's financial ruin. The park was left to ruin for over 100 years, but restored in the 1990s to a pristine state. A series of watercolours that accompanied the MDF structure depicted sculptural follies as well as imagery taken from ‘spraycan art’, drawing parallels through geometry and artifice.
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