by Will Cottrell | Apr 14, 2026 | Works
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 1, 2026 | Works
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...
by Will Cottrell | Mar 30, 2026 | Works
Bamboo Surface Transformations Surface transformations aligned with the stages of alchemical and psychological development: black, white, yellow, and red. Each colour emerges through a specific material operation. The black of nigredo is achieved through burning: soot...
by Will Cottrell | Jan 20, 2026 | Works
Untitled (Ritual form) I wanted this piece to hold a sense of ritual mystery. This reflects how bamboo is seen in many Global South cultures, where bamboo – bring so commonplace and useful – has come to carry deep spiritual meaning. Black and blond bamboo...
by Will Cottrell | Jul 4, 2025 | Works
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 | Bamboo Models, Works
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...
