Last summer our friends and minigolf rivals Gareth and Lhurlyn Holmes were lucky enough to visit Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf course at the Venice Biennale. This year the course came to England.
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| Playing Pleasure Seekers by Candice Jacobs |
Last week the art-installation Crazy Golf course became the 401st played and 682nd visited on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
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| One of two holes I scored an ace on - The Turkey Shoot Galactico by John Akomfrah |
It was brilliant fun to play and very well built. It was also pleasing to defeat another minigolf rival and friend Jam Trubridge in our match-up. At just £2 per player it was a bargain to play too.
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| Jam playing the first hole on the street in Nottingham |
Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf is at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham until the 19th June. It then moves on to the Derby QUAD.
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| Hole 1 was unique to the New Art Exchange's layout of Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf |
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| Definitely an Alligator |
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| Jam on the hand cranking 9th - Coloured Processor by Hetain Patel |
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| Playing the 9th |
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| Putting through a hole in the wall |
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| The Bridge of Konigsberg by Eyal and Ines Weizman - very interesting as you automatically score a zero! |
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| A view of Putting a Hole in the Wall by Yara El-Sherbini and three other holes |
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| Doug Fishbone's Costa Concordia hole |
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| We both scored a 20 |
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| We found there is a knack to playing the 'Life Raft' hole by Ellie Harrison. It's quite different to how the hole was last year in Venice |
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| There was some great minigolf merch on sale at the New Art Exchange too |
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| The beermat scorecards and branded balls & pencils look excellent |
On our travels around the world we've played some interesting courses, including some designed for art shows, exhibitions and as playable sculptures.
We've played art-based minigolf at the one-day only M!MS Mini Golf course in Bedford, Crazee Golf at the TinType Gallery in London, the Bompas & Parr food architecture course on the roof of Selfridges and Putt Putt #2 by TURF Projects in Croydon. We've also not played art courses in Clerkenwell and Folkestone - where the remnants of the old Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course were used to create a series of beach huts!
We were also recently involved in the London Design Festival's Kickstarter campaign to build a Crazy Golf course in Trafalgar Square.
Links:
- New Art Exchange (NAE)
- Doug Fishbone
Related blog posts:
- Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf
- Art
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Nottingham
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