‘Boscombe Flags’ 2025 – Elinor Rowlands

Our 2025 flag commission features the work of Elinor Rowlands, one of the artists in our exhibition, You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025.

Elinor Rowlands is an award-winning UK-based artist and multi-disciplinary maker, whose work combines elements of sound art, composition, drawing, painting, spoken word, and AV. As a Fine Art practice-based PhD candidate at Nottingham Trent University’s Artistic Research Centre (ARC), her research focuses on autistic stimming as an artistic methodology. Rowlands explores how her experiences as an autistic individual informs her artistic practices.

This project was commissioned by Bournemouth Coastal BID and BEAF Arts Co.

‘Flags of the Caribbean’ 2024 – Kemba Earle

For our BEAF Arts Summer Programme 2024, we commissioned artist Kemba Earle to produce new flags in response to the Windrush Generation and Caribbean culture. The visuals within ‘Flags of the Caribbean’ that Kemba created depict Caribbean-British culture, such as music, food, hairstyles, and carnival.

Kemba Earle is an illustrator and graphic designer with Caribbean and British heritage. Working with bold colours and conceptual imagery, Kemba is interested in celebrating diversity.

This project was commissioned by Bournemouth Coastal BID and BEAF Arts Co.

Image (right) © Caroline Beale Johnson

Boscombe Flags 2023 – Ian Wornast

For BEAF Arts Festival 2023, we commissioned Ian Wornast, an artist from ActionSpace to create new semi-abstract flags in response to Boscombe and it’s architecture. Ian mapped Boscombe’s history and the built environment around us through colourful mark making documenting iconic buildings in Boscombe.

Ian Wornast’s art practice is inspired by place and a developed sense of design. Ian has a passion for transport and the built environment around us.

ActionSpace is an exceptional visual arts development agency for learning disabled artists.

This project was commissioned by Bournemouth Coastal BID and BEAF Arts Co.

Images © Roz Pike

Boscombe Flags 2022 – Roberta Fox

Roberta Fox is a local artist who creates bright, playful, striking prints, inspired by her everyday surroundings and experiences. She has an intense love of colour and classes shapes and negative space just as important as each other. 

“The four flag designs represent summer loving and excitement. Boscombe is great because it has a bit of everything on the high street, and I wanted to bring this across in my designs by collaging together different elements that inspire me.”

This project was commissioned by Bournemouth Coastal BID and curated by BEAF Arts Co.

See more of Roberta’s work here: https://www.instagram.com/rfoxdesigns/ 

Image © Roberta Fox, bottom right image © Coastal BID

Boscombe Flags 2019 – Nat Cook

Visual artist and designer Nat Cook created a series of flags to celebrate Boscombe in Bournemouth, as part of our festival in 2019. She is motivated by design that supports communities and social change and she carries the mantra, “community first, designer second”.

“I began the project by creating a series of collages. I tried to incorporate “play” into the project and move away from creating digital content. The collages were digitized for abstract graphic visuals evocative of the seaside city carrying bold colours to bring life to the high street.”

See more of Nat’s work here: https://heynatcook.com/

Image © Nat Cook, bottom left © Roz Pike