Website: nicolabealing.co.uk
Insta: @nicola_bealing

Nicola Bealing’s work spans painting, printmaking and installation. Drawing on historical narratives, folklore and everyday absurdities, she reimagines found stories with dark humour and psychological depth. Her recent work explores themes of isolation, human folly and the surreal overlaps between tragedy and comedy.

For Nicola’s project, a forest of ghostly hanging baskets will transform the platform at Bodmin General into a surreal, unsettling landscape. Expanding the station’s usual eight baskets to around fifty, each will overflow with pale paper cut-outs of plants, animals and human forms. Suspended overhead, they will disrupt sightlines and movement, creating a playful yet disconcerting “glitch” in the everyday, where familiar station décor tips into something uncanny and unexpected.

Website: rjonesfilms.com
Insta: @rachaeljones_

Rachael Jones works between landscape, memory and human connection to place. Working with moving image, sound and installation, she often collaborates with communities to reveal layered local stories and overlooked voices. Her films balance poetic imagery with documentary sensitivity, creating intimate portraits of people and environments in flux.

Rachael’s project reimagines hidden objects from Bodmin Keep’s archives while the museum undergoes repairs. Selected items will be reproduced as large weatherproof cut-outs, creating a trail around the site that leads to a film installation in the Keep’s trench. Drawing on diary entries from the collection, narrated by local voices, the film weaves personal and social histories. Stickers and workshops will extend participation, inviting playful encounters with the museum’s stories.

Insta: @alice_mahoney

Working in sculpture, installation and participatory projects, Alice’s work often transforms everyday materials into playful yet thought-provoking assemblages that explore care, repair and transformation. Alice is interested in how objects hold memory and emotion, and how making can build connection and resilience.

Alice will create an immersive installation combining light, sound, sculpture and film, inspired by Bodmin’s watery past, present and future. Beginning with participatory walks to sites such as wells, rivers and caverns, with Alice and Jonny Davey, the project gathers stories, sounds and imagery to create an audio map, sculptural works by Alice Mahoney and film, by artist Naomi Frears, that move water in playful, unpredictable ways. Presented at Flamm, it will invite audiences to reconnect with Bodmin’s hidden waters and shifting landscapes.

Website: rebeccaproctor.co.uk
Insta: @_rebeccaproctor

Rebecca Proctor’s work combines traditional craft with contemporary forms. Using hand-built and thrown methods, she explores the meeting point between utility and imagination, often drawing inspiration from natural processes, geology and coastal landscapes. Her pieces balance fragility and strength, celebrating clay’s tactile qualities and its connection to place. Widely recognised in the contemporary ceramic world, the Flamm project will see Rebecca realising her largest sculpture and first outdoor piece.

Rebecca’s project responses to the legend of Rose Wright, a 19th-century Bodmin Jail inmate said to have cursed the prison. Inspired by the jackdaws she befriended, the work features around 20 black ceramic birds swirling above a charred wooden plinth that evokes the jail’s weight and history. Both beautiful and unsettling, the sculpture invites reflection on freedom, incarceration, local folklore, and our relationship with these intelligent, playful birds.

Website: carloszapataart.com
Insta: @carloszapataautomata

Colombian-born artist Carlos Zapata is known for his expressive carved wood sculptures and automata. Drawing on folk art traditions, personal history and global politics, his work tells stories of resilience, displacement and human emotion with bold colour and intricate detail. Often both playful and unsettling, his sculptures invite reflection on cultural identity, memory and the shared experiences that connect people across borders.

For Flamm 2026, Carlos will present a large-scale sculptural automaton that transforms the familiar into the unexpected, at Discovering 42. At first it looks like an ordinary kitchen dresser, but with a turn of a handle, everyday objects stir into motion, lights flicker, and mechanisms are revealed. Broken and discarded items are given new life, shifting meaning and identity. Playful and engaging, the work explores transformation, reuse, migration, and belonging, inviting audiences to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.