by Will Cottrell | Mar 13, 2026 | Art, Bamboo Art
Form Studies: Bamboo Hyperbolic Paraboloids Paraboloid as a common architectural form. The humble pringle is an example of a this glorious form. And the round pole of the Bamboo is ideally suited to create paraboloids; the internal angles mean rectangular or square...
by Will Cottrell | Jan 11, 2026 | Art
Today is my two-hundred and fifteenth birthday. I traipse across my cave and bludgeon my foot on a stone. A rotten toenail tears away, and I threaten the emerging sun, with my stick. My stink nauseates me. Over the years I have come to smell like that moment, one...
by Will Cottrell | Aug 21, 2025 | Art, Bamboo Art
Using Gridshells to build Festival Structures Bamboo construction is arguably its largest global use. So, in the spring of 2025 I spent a month studying bamboo construction with the bamboo masters – Balinese bamboo carpenters. Subsequently I returned to the UK...
by Will Cottrell | Aug 21, 2025 | Art, Bamboo Blog
The Karma Map Dome – Building with Bamboo at Tribal Earth The Karma Map dome quickly became a focal point at Tribal Earth Festival — children played inside, friends gathered beneath its arcs, and at one point a musician even staged an impromptu gig within its walls....
by Will Cottrell | Jul 12, 2025 | Art
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by Will Cottrell | Nov 9, 2022 | Art
“The Unconscious” – A piece I did recently to evoking the many archetypes, fears, and voices we carry within. Layered digital collage of ritual masks. Recently I visited London’s Tate Modern . The place is a shrine, full of people looking at paintings, mostly of...
