Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Sorcha Carey, Curator of Folkestone Triennial 2025, brings a deeply thoughtful approach to shaping How Lies The Land? Drawing on over two decades of experience commissioning site-specific art, she weaves together ideas about place, history, and community to create a festival that invites reflection on the land and its stories. Her work explores how artists respond to the environment and public space, carefully balancing creativity with context. Through this, Sorcha realises a vision where art becomes a lens for understanding our relationship with the world around us, opening up new perspectives on belonging, change, and connection.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
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Sorcha Carey, Curator of Folkestone Triennial 2025, brings a deeply thoughtful approach to shaping How Lies The Land? Drawing on over two decades of experience commissioning site-specific art, she weaves together ideas about place, history, and community to create a festival that invites reflection on the land and its stories. Her work explores how artists respond to the environment and public space, carefully balancing creativity with context. Through this, Sorcha realises a vision where art becomes a lens for understanding our relationship with the world around us, opening up new perspectives on belonging, change, and connection.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
oliverparkin.com
instagram.com/oliver_filmmaker
