Since 2021, bamboo specialists from across the globe have shared skills in bamboo design, build and growing with artists, creative practitioners and cultural and community organisations in the UK, through online creative labs and Imagine Bamboo projects. The list of professionals in the UK with experience of working with bamboo continues to grow..
Visual artists, sculptors, designer-makers, architects
North East: Bloomin Art, Pete Gunson
Midlands: Polly Bansal, Ella Clarke, Monica Cru-Hall, Philip Eddolls, Tim Franklin, Anthony Greentree, Spencer Jenkins, Lou Jones, John Leahy, Alisha Miller, Kim Mountford, Chloe Ricketts, Katy Stone, Kunjan Thankey, Lucy Tomlins, Francesca Wheeler
South West & Wales: Tarn Aitken, Simon Cooper, Collette Davies, Zoe Dunn, Lauren Dix, Valentine Gigandet, Flow Maugran, Beck Prior, Mish Weaver, Rhianna Yates
North West: Stephen Banning, Faith Bebbington, Hannah Bold, Becky Bryson, Jonathan Butters, Sarah Gallagher Hayes, Brian D Hanlon, Alex Herring, Jo Pocock, Stephanie O'Hara, Julian Taylor, Steve Threlfall
Elsewhere: Gawain Morrison, Dan Potra
Music makers
North West: Jonathan 'JAB' Butters, Zilan Liao, James Lyons, John and Charlie,
South West & Wales: Stacey Blythe, Laura Bradshaw & One World Choir, Peter Swaffer Reynolds, Mujib Oloye
Physical performance, theatre, opera & circus
North West: Jess Cooney, Grace Neville Evans, Szymon (Sai) Mamys,
Nofit State Circus: Tarn Aitken, Laine Bennett, Dann Carroll, Elena Cassotto, Felix Fogg, Tiago Fonesca, Rhain Halford, Ciaran Innes, Sarah Jenaway, Guillem Fluixa Marti, Lucie, Francis Maxey, Kevin McIntosh, Nicoló Marzoli, Luka Morrochi, Laura Moy, Samuel LeBon, Phoebe Knight, Gaving Priestley,Molly Richmond, Lily Riseley-Prichard, Rosa-Marie Schmid, Ru, lots more to add
Elsewhere: Rosalind Parker
Digital artists, film-makers and technical wizards
Rachel Bunce, Ashley Brown, Jay Farley / First Take Media, Derek Laurence, Milk Bar Studio, Edie Jo Murray, John Sear, Ling Tan
Cultural Producers
Craig Ashley, Claire Bigley, Cat Butler, Louisa Davies, Anne Forgan, Stella Hall, Phill Haynes, Katie Holtom, Jane Hytch, Kerry Jones, Lou Lomas, Sarah Lovell, Claire Maddocks, Sally Malkin, Kate Parry, Amanda Roberts, Valentina Solari-Voadanovic, Gemma Thomas, Sarah Vasey, Alana Wheat
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Community & Cultural Organisations