A sculptor who is famous for designing and creating the Angel of the North will be taking part in a town-wide art exhibition this year.

The Folkestone Triennial is approaching its fourth edition this September and is dubbed one of the UK's most ambitious art exhibitions.

Internationally recognised artists have been commissioned to create a collection of new artworks to be showcased in Folkestone’s public spaces.

This includes Antony Gormley who is best known for his creations, the Angel of the North, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear and Another Time, a cast iron figure of a man on Crosby Beach near Liverpool.

A replica version of the latter sculpture is set to be created in Folkestone, positioned in the half tide loading bay next to the Harbour Arm.

Mr Gormley will site one from the series of cast iron figures Another Time within this bay, to be immersed and revealed by each tide.

This year's theme is called Double Edge with some of the works due to remain in the town to add to its expanding art collection, Folkestone Artworks.

The Triennial has been going since 2008 and the 2014 event was visited by more than 135,000 people.

This year’s festival will be held over a nine-week period from Saturday, September 2, to Sunday, November 5.

It is being curated for the second time by Lewis Biggs.

He said: "The title double edge has two meanings – the first is one of anxiety, the edge of the world, the edge of the future and the unknown.

“The secondary meaning is one of balance, released through the artist’s imagination when one tips over the edge and looks back on the known with a renewed perspective.”

The organisers say the title will expand on realities experienced as part of everyday lives in Folkestone and globally.

These include migration, border control, wealth inequality, environment and climate change.

This year's artists are: Rigo 23, Sol Calero, Michael Craig-Martin, Antony Gormley, Carmody Groarke, Alex Hartley, Lubaina Himid, Ann Veronica Janssens, Emily Peasgood, Amalia Pica, Marc Schmitz and Dolgor Ser-Od, David Shrigley, Bob and Roberta Smith, Sinta Tantra, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, HoyCheong Wong, Gary Woodley, Bill Woodrow, Richard Woods, and Jonathan Wright.