A touring pavilion activated by artists & communities.
Wiggle Wonderland is a timber-framed, open-air gallery that can be adapted to display the works of artists and communities in different locations. From hosting live performances to workshops, each install of the pavilion evolves and is shaped by people and place, and collaboration and co-creation are core to the project.
Wiggle Wonderland was founded by architectural designer Beau McCarthy (he/him) and artist Lucy Grainge (she/her).
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Beau graduated from Central Saint Martins with a Bachelors in Architecture and a Masters in Architecture from Glasgow School of Art. He works as a freelance 3D designer and Art Director across film and TV, festival design and as an Architectural Designer. In these roles, he’s instrumental in conceptualising, designing, and creating sets that incorporate high-quality 3D visualisations and construction drawings. His clients include commercial galleries, Glowedup, BBC, Channel 4 and Netflix.
Beau’s interests lay within the public realm and temporal spaces used to engage the audience and aims to bring joy and celebration into the built environment. He designed the Wiggle Wonderland pavilion and re-designs it to meet the site's opportunities and constraints. Beau prepares all required documentation within the public realm and on private land for the local authority and the client, including surveys, visualisations and construction drawings.
Lucy is an artist-designer from Manchester based in London. Her practice explores colour, shape and pattern working across printmaking, illustration and installations. Lucy is also an arts facilitator, interested in collaborative and community centred projects.
She has worked within community arts settings for 7 years on employability arts programmes with young people, intergenerational projects, in schools and healthcare settings which was a catalyst to launching Wiggle Wonderland. Her clients include Wellcome Collection, National Theatre, Rumpus Room, Selfridges, Artsadmin, Royal Society of Sculptors. Lucy’s role in Wiggle Wonderland is producing, leading on engagement and workshops, co-ordinating the artwork and doing lots of admin!
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