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 | Jul 4, 2025 | Art, Myths & Masks
Skeleton Woman Inspired by the Inuit myth of the same name, Skeleton Woman speaks to the possibility of return—from death, from abandonment, from the deep. In the story, a woman’s skeleton lies forgotten on the ocean floor until a fisherman, moved by compassion, draws...
by Will Cottrell | Jul 4, 2025 | Art, Psyche Architecture
Bone Clock I’m interested in how the past speaks to us beyond our conventional metrics of minutes and years, but as something much, much older. Bone Clock is made of bamboo bones – bamboo poles split longitudinally to reveal the interior node walls. The bones form a...
by Will Cottrell | Jun 30, 2025 | Art, Bamboo Models, Psyche Architecture
Complex Materials: Bamboo slats This sculpture visualizes the psychic architecture of a Jungian complex—tangled, autonomous, and emotionally charged. The piece contains two bulbous nodes: one that appear as twin spheres of psychic density. Their precarious connection...
