Walking the edge of Margate's bathing pool

​A SEASIDE stroll was made into a visual masterpiece this week as a crowd of art lovers were corralled into  walking along the edge of a bathing pool.

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anterbury-based artist Hamish Fulton, who is known for his art walks, conducted a performance piece by inviting members of the public to walk around the edge wall of Margate’s boating pool for an hour.

All 197 volunteers were required to keep an equal distance of about one metre from the person in front, and the person behind as they circuited the pool  seven times.

Mr Fulton, 63, an artist for 40 years, said: “I think it went fantastically well, it was really great. It is the first time I have made a  work here.

“It is fantastic.

“I live in Canterbury, and so I know this part of Kent.

“The work is about experience not material.

“It might look like a sculpture but it isn’t. The participant is also the viewer.

“All my work involves walking, but always in a group.”

The work was commissioned by the Turner Contemporary and a video of the event is to be shown in the gallery once it is opened.