by Will Cottrell | Apr 17, 2026 | Bamboo Art, Context
Shape As Structure Structure is not only created only through the strength of a material. It can also emerge from how forces are organised within a form. For example: an eggshell is extremely thin, yet surprisingly strong because its curved shape distributes...
by Will Cottrell | Apr 14, 2026 | Art, Bamboo Art
What Holds It Together The work begins with a simple question: what holds this together? Not in terms of material strength, but in terms of how parts relate, resist, and organise themselves into something that stands. Structure is present throughout – embedded...
by Will Cottrell | Apr 3, 2026 | Art, Bamboo Art, Context
Bamboo U: My Bamboo Education in Bali As an artist trying to understand bamboo, I went to Bali to study the structural languages developed there. Bali is the home of contemporary bamboo and the structures they are creating are both visually mind-blowing and...
by Will Cottrell | Apr 3, 2026 | Bamboo Art, Context
Bali’s Bambu Indah: A Working Lab for Material and Structure I visited the Bambu Indah eco-resort while in studying bamboo construction in Bali. What I found was something like a working laboratory where material, structure, process and building are tested,...
by Will Cottrell | Apr 3, 2026 | Bamboo Art, Context
Situating My Practice: Lessons from Bali’s Green School The Green School in Bali represents an enormous body of knowledge about contemporary bamboo practice. It’s the global reference point for bamboo innovation. In 2024 I studied with Bamboo U, part of the...
by Will Cottrell | Apr 1, 2026 | Bamboo Art, Process
Process as Alchemy Some of my work has been concerned with the processes of alchemy as routes towards personal change. Carl Jung recognised that alchemical processes can be understood as material and psychological. A visual blackening might be read symbolically as...
