Crazy as a barrel of frogs Golf

A new take on playing through!

If you like your golf and a bit of conceptual art then we would recommend that you get down to Nottingham in the UK where, from April, you can combine the two.

First shown at the Venice Biennale in 2015, Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, combines crazy golf with art, and we’ve never the seen the like of it.

Longest ever putt? France to England.

Fishbone invited 10 artists to contribute, with the idea being to explore some of the darker sides of the leisure industry through a game associated with family holidays.

“It always struck me that mini golf would be a great form for artwork – because it’s three-dimensional and interactive, but normally, the courses are very conservative; there will be a windmill and a dolphin; nothing too artistically challenging.”

Well we’ve seen some pretty mad crazy golf in our time, and at the bottom you can link through to our piece on biblical crazy golf.

According to Fishbone, “It’s a way of showing political art in a way that’s not too heavy-handed.”

Fishbone’s contribution is a model of the stricken cruise ship the Costa Concordia, a symbol of capitalism, workers’ rights, and, he says, “mismanagement and environmental blindness”.

Environmental Mismanagement meets crazy golf course mismanagement

John Akomfrah’s sculpture forces you to putt into the face of a kneeling figure wearing a hoodie – an obstacle inspired by the deaths of African Americans killed by the police in the US.

Hit a hoodie time.

We really don’t know what to make of this, so we leave it for you to decide.

For more on Biblical Putt Putt click here or on the image below.