Boscombe Summer flags

Boscombe Summer flags is on going placemaking project along Boscombe high-street. We hope to work with more local artists in the future bringing colour and pride to Boscombe.

‘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

A photograph of artist Roberta Fox's flags hung up along Boscombe high street

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

Side street photograph of Roberta Fox's Boscombe flags. The flags are a collage of different shapes and forms and very colourful

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/