ARTWAVE 2026

WILL COTTRELL — CONTEMPORARY BAMBOO SCULPTURE

The Lodge, 18 Phoenix Place, Lewes, BN7 2QJ

ARTWAVE 2026

WILL COTTRELL — CONTEMPORARY BAMBOO SCULPTURE

The Lodge, 18 Phoenix Place, Lewes, BN7 2QJ

This September, my studio at The Lodge opens for Artwave 2026.

The exhibition brings together recent sculpture and installation exploring bamboo as a material of tension, fracture, memory and transformation.

Rather than treating bamboo as a material of craft or sustainability, I cut, crush, split, bind and force it into forms that sit somewhere between construction and collapse.

The studio will include major recent works alongside smaller pieces from the Minor Gods and Reliquary series.

ON VIEW

DIVORCE ENGINE, 2026

Bamboo, wallpaper, rubber
310 × 160 × 180 cm

A large-scale installation emerging from the experience of watching my parents’ divorce — two people locked together while simultaneously tearing themselves apart.

MINOR GODS / RELIQUARY

A group of smaller works combining bamboo with frames, distressed surfaces and found or domestic materials.

Part sculpture, part object and part psychological artefact, they extend the same language of fracture, containment and repair into a more intimate scale.

COMPRESSION FIELDS, 2026

Sculptural works exploring compression, balance and the structural behaviour of bamboo.

MINOR GODS

New works by Will Cottrell
MASS at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 16th August 2026 from 10am

Sculptural forms poised between relic, mask and presence.
Fragments that seem at once ancient, damaged and strangely alive.

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Minor Gods brings together a series of small sculptural forms made from bamboo, bindings and other materials.

Part mask, part relic, part unknown object, the works suggest figures or presences without quite becoming figurative. Fractures, rough surfaces and visible fixings are left exposed; these modest objects carry a sense of ritual, damage and psychological weight. They might be artefacts from an unknown culture, fragments of something once larger, or private gods whose purpose has been forgotten.

Compression Fields

Exhibited at Lansdown Gallery, Lewes, May 2026.