Folly
An MDF replica of a mock-Gothic Temple from Painshill Park near Cobham in Surrey. The original folly was one of fourteen buildings and bridges built on borrowed money by Charles Hamilton on return from his Grand Tour. The other follies include a Turkish Tent, Doric Temple, Sham Ruined Abbey and Rockwork Grotto. It was a thirty-five year venture that eventually led to his financial ruin. The park itself, including the Gothic Temple, was left to ruin for over 100 years, but restored in the 1990s to a pristine state.
A series of watercolours that accompanied the structure depicted sculptural follies alongside imagery taken from ‘spraycan art’; drawing visual parallels through geometry and artifice.
Folly was built Cell77’s project space in the basement of a former printworks, and served as a stage set-piece for a series of sound and film performances over one weekend by artists collectives Enso, Found and Glasgow Drawing Club. See www.auroraprojects.co.uk/archive for more information.
