The Clearing, 2017, by Studio Ben Allen. Located upstairs inside Folkestone Quarterhouse.


Studio Ben Allen, The Clearing, 2017 Located inside Folkestone Quarterhouse. Accessible only during the buildings’ open hours. This immersive installation is an invitation to explore the feelings created by the vertical, tree-like forms. It is a primal human response to occupy or gather in the ‘clearings’ between the trees of a forest. The gothic forms are Anglo-French in origin, appropriate to Folkestone as maybe the historical arrival point for the master builders and masons from France who were employed to build the churches and cathedrals of England.


Size: 5504px × 8152px
Location: 49 Tontine St, Folkestone CT20 1JT
Photo credit: © Colin Walton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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