[5] Artists who have exhibited at the Triennial include Lubaina Himid, Tracy Emin, Cornelia Parker, Martin Creed, Myles Stephens, Emma Hart, Sir Anthony Gormley, Andy Goldsworthy and Bob and Roberta Smith.

[20] Artists included Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Langlands and Bell, Heather and Ivan Morison, Mark Wallinger and Richard Wilson.

Works retained and still included in the Creative Folkestone Artworks collection include Tracey Emin's series of works, Baby Things, Mark Wallinger's Folk Stones, Patrick Tuttofuoco's FOLKESTONE, Richard Wilson's 18 Holes, Adam Chozko's Pyramid, Christian Boltanski's The Whispers, Pae White's Barking Rocks and Richard Wentworth's series, Racinated.

Additional artists presenting hailed from Algeria, Morocco, Kosovo, Israel, Egypt, Guyana, India, Brazil, Denmark, Spain, Germany and the USA.

rootoftwo), Pablo Bronstein, Diane Dever and Jonathan Wright, Strange Cargo, muf Architecture, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tim Etchells, Sarah Staton, Will Kwan and Yoko Ono, who contributed two pieces - Earth Peace and Skyladder 2014.

[24] Renowned graffiti artist, Banksy, gatecrashed the 2014 Triennial, painting a mural called Art Buff on the side of Palace Amusements in Payers Park in October 2014.

Notable works in the 2017 Triennial which still reside as pieces in the Folkestone Artworks collection include Antony Gormley's Another Time XXI,  Richard Woods's Holiday Home sequence, featuring model second homes by the sea, Bob and Roberta Smith's Folkestone is an Art School and Marc Schmitz and Dolgor Ser-Od's giant shell-cum-gramophone piece, Siren, which was described as an example of a work that "seems to have fallen to Earth on the East Cliff".

[32] Other remaining pieces in the Folkestone Artworks collection from the 2017 collection include works by Amalia Pica, Rigo 23, Diane Dever and the Decorators, Sol Calero, Michael Craig-Martin, Lubaina Himid, Gary Woodley, Bill Woodrow, David Shrigley and Studio Ben Allen, whose architectural piece, The Clearing, is still a feature of the first floor bar at Folkestone's Quarterhouse.

Individual works are often supported by specific funders: e.g. Pilar Quinteros' piece in 2021[35] is co-commissioned by England's Creative Coast,[36] Beach Huts by Folkestone and Hythe District Council and 2021 pieces by Jacqueline Donachie, Jacqueline Poncelet and Morag Myserscough have been commissioned through Pioneering Places East Kent[37] and funded by Arts Council England and National Lottery Heritage Fund.