Events Calendar
Bathing Beauties. A Linear Gallery of New Coastal Architecture on the Lincolnshire coast, UK.
Bathing Beauties is a project conceived by Lead Artist Michael Trainor to create a series of dramatic and beautiful new beach huts and other seaside architecture for a beautiful and award-winning 10 mile stretch of Lincolnshire coastline, UK. The coastline features blue badge award-winning beaches, linked by footpath and suitable for pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users to enjoy uninterrupted views of sand, sea, sky – oh, and beachhuts! There are currently 509 existing traditional beach huts (linking the UK coastal towns of Mablethorpe, Sutton-On-Sea, Anderby Creek and Chapel St Leonards). Some of the huts are used and well maintained, many are in disrepair or forgotten and there are a variety of architectural styles from several different decades.
Bathing Beauties is the start of a 3 year process (2006 - 2009) for artists, architects, designers and the local community to develop exciting, high quality and innovative bathing huts and other seaside structures which will ultimately form a ‘linear gallery’ of seaside architecture amongst the existing bathing huts and an annual Festival of Bathing Beauties – the UK’s First Annual Beach Hut Festival; the first of which will take place from Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 September 2007.
Bathing Beauties Calendar of Events 2007
March 2007: Beautiful Beach Hut Competitions, part of the Festival of Bathing Beauties launch
Competitions for private owners of beach huts between Mablethorpe and Chapel St.
Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK. Judging on Sat 22 Sept 2007 as part of the public festival.
Please see competition page for full details.
June 2007: Bathing Beauties: A World Premiere
at The Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, UK.
'Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century'.
An international exhibition of over one hundred models designed by artists and architects
which re-imagine the British beach hut for the first time in three hundred years. The
exhibition launches especially for Architecture Week, UK and runs from 15 June - 2 Sept
at The Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford,
Lincolshire, NG34 7TW, UK. Open 10am - 5pm daily. Admission is Free.
Tel: +44 (0)1529 308710 www.thehubcentre.org
Summer 07: Bathing Beauties 'Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century'.
The first ‘Brave New Beach Hut’, entitled 'Come Up And See Me' by lead artist
Michael Trainor, installed on the coast (site to be determined) between Mablethorpe and
Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK. Other bold new huts by international architects,
artists and designers begin to install their full-scale huts at sites along this 10mile
stretch.
Sept 2007: The Festival of Bathing Beauties on the Lincolnshire coast, UK.
Sat 22 & Sun 23 Sept 2007
The UKs only Beach Hut Festival
The official launch of the bold new beach huts 'Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the
21st Century', including advance bookings open for daily hire in 2008.
Beautiful Beach Hut Competition with entries from private owners of existing huts on this
coastline for exterior, interior and best dressed for the festival judging and prize-giving.
Other 'open hut' events including temporary installations, live music interventions.
The Festival of Bathing Beauties aims to become an annual event, each September.
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EVENTS ARCHIVE: The Bathing Beauties process from Sept 2005 - March 2007
Sept 2005: Michael Trainor appointed lead artist for the Lincolnshire Coastal Art Project
Early 2006: Public consultation with the local community
March 2006: The Big Idea: Bathing Beauties 'Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century'
June 2006: International competitions launch for artists and architects to design bold new beach huts
Sept 2006: Closing date for first competitions - over 240 scale model entries received from 15
countries! Judging of international competitions to commission winning designs for full-
scale build in 2007
Oct 2006: The start of the commissioning process with the winning artists, architects and designers
The start of seeking funding to realise the winning design for competition 2 (Beachfront
Restaurant / Boathouse for Chapel St. Leonards)
Nov 2006: The ambition to exhibit selected scale model entries nationally and internationally starts
Jan 2007: The first of the bold new beach hut winnning designs start to get built off-site
March 2007: Beautiful Beach Hut Competition as part of the Festival of Bathing Beauties launches