The Bathing Beauties® project has evolved since it was first conceived in 2006 by Michael Trainor, as an international design competition for artists and architects to ‘Re-imagine the Beach Hut for the 21st Century’
Three distinctive Bathing Beauties® elements include innovative new beach hut and small building architecture on the Lincolnshire coast, UK; the UK’s only Beach Hut Festival and an international touring exhibition of 1:15 scale model beach huts selected from the original design competition.
Bathing Beauties®: Huts on Parade
Five Bathing Beauties® beach huts derived from international competitions to ‘Re-imagine the Beach Hut for the 21st Century’ were built full-scale and permanently installed in 2007, dotted along a 16 kilometre stretch of the Lincolnshire coast, UK. The UKs first permanent cloud viewing platform, The Cloud Bar by Michael Trainor, is now open at Anderby Creek - see Future Projects for more information. Later in 2009, two original commissions and an additional further small building commission a Bird Hide called The Round and Round House (see Future Projects) will be installed.
Festival of Bathing Beauties®
The next Festival of Bathing Beauties takes place over 19 and 20 September 2009. The second Festival of Bathing Beauties® took place over the weekend of Sat 20 and Sun 21 September 2008 in Mablethorpe and Sutton-On-Sea, Lincolnshire, UK. The inaugural festival of the UK’s only Beach Hut Festival occured in September 2007 attracted over 10,000 new visitors to the beautiful but partly forgotten coast between Mablethorpe and Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire, UK.
Bathing Beauties®: A Hub Touring Exhibition
The Bathing Beauties®: Hub Touring Exhibition features up to 100 scale models by artists and architects which re-invent the Beach Hut for the first time in 300 years. The exhibition premiered at the Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design in 2007 and has subsequently toured to France and England’s Northwest. The exhibition, which also features a full-scale Bathing Beauty ‘Oyster Pleasance’, will tour to Montreal in Canada in 2009 and is available for hire until 2010.
The media release attached dated August 2008 for recent information.
The Lincolnshire Coastal Art Project is part financed by European Regional Development Fund
Partners are: Lincolnshire County Council, East Lindsey District Council and the local parish councils.
For further information, images, interviews and background to Bathing Beauties® project
Contact Lesa Dryburgh, Press Manager (Bathing Beauties and Michael Trainor)
Email: press@bathingbeauties.org.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 248 6405 |
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