Root and Shoot Treehouses

Root and Shoot Treehouses We specialise in the custom design, build and installation of treehouses, adventure playgrounds and garden havens of all kinds. Let us build your dream!

My lovely school client in north london had some defunct areas of the playground and were lacking any dynamic and swingi...
11/09/2026

My lovely school client in north london had some defunct areas of the playground and were lacking any dynamic and swinging equipment, but also didn’t have a lot of budget. I designed some simple interventions to bolster the exiting structures with sustainable timber, and use the beautiful mature plane trees to hang swings and vines all made from re-purposed re-used bike tyres. We have a swinging haven, where we can also regularly change and add more to the mix, depending on how the kids want it. To increase the swinging space we wanted to extend the existing soft surfacing over a long tarmac strip, and instead of huge budgets for extra resin bound flooring, I decided to create a woven tyre carpet over a low car tyre wall that we designed with the kids (last photos). It’s a perfect bouncy playful space, though I was very greateful for the willing team of Craig Robertson and Vivien Delta - a 13 metres long tyre rug is not a fast thing to produce alone! I had the joy of running an assembly to introduce the material and techniques to the kids and so a collective design session in the playground. It passed its safety inspection with flying colours and feedback from the start of term has been positive ❤️❤️❤️

26/06/2026

Play. Trying ideas out, thinking with my hands as is the .sculpture creed. Trying to quiet the judgement to allow some freedom to explore and make and fail and make again. It doesn’t always work 😋 but I learn and feed it all back on. And my friend Luke can weave a magnificent story from it too, he’s a magician ⭐️

I did manage to subsequently use these materials to create some new work, and is going on show tonight, and on until July Xth at with the brilliant .sculpture gang. My piece is participatory, I welcome anyone to join in, on this one or the next x

Shindig festival was such a blast! Thanks for having us!!! Loved bringing Bounce, the 100% recycled bouncy play space, ...
28/05/2026

Shindig festival was such a blast! Thanks for having us!!! Loved bringing Bounce, the 100% recycled bouncy play space, to this gorgeous arboretum setting with brilliant collaborator Lizzy After our initial rig, hundreds of children’s hands continued to weave this web all weekend, and then traversed its intricate pathways, jumping, chilling, playing, connecting and creating. An amazing space to make it, and the community made it extra wonderful, thanks to our neighbours and new besties Vix and to Ben and Jane at and to all the children and families who helped weave the magic! More to come this summer, and see you next year Shindig! ❤️🤸🌱♻️🥰🎉

‘Blood bubble’. About care and proximity. My tiny ode to the plight of a people under occupation and oppression. I physi...
15/05/2026

‘Blood bubble’. About care and proximity. My tiny ode to the plight of a people under occupation and oppression. I physically manifested the wonderful forest school technique for teaching children knife safety. When kids use blades for whittling and carving, you tell them about the zone around them where if someone enters, they may draw blood 🩸 - their ‘blood bubble’. If someone gets too close, you stop carving and ask the person to move to a safe distance. It worked for the collaborative art factory space in my show, due to the carving activity, but it also speaks to the idea of who we take care of. Who is in our metaphorical blood bubble. Who do we neglect and not think of, perhaps far from us, and outside of our perceived sphere of harm.

In the show, people used pencils stubs (🙏 ) to make earrings to raise money for the incredible So many! So creative! They took away some of the fruits of their labours and added many more to the shop. Other gallery visitors bought the earrings, donating directly. Hundreds of £ raised, and so much craft, care and communion. Such a pleasure to run this and talk with people and show other work too. A privilege too to exhibit with part new artist family below and thanks so much to all the team at and :

Sonia Stanyard
Gina Cross
Katy Binks
Lucinda Newton Dunn
Kei Tominaga
Sarah Haddon-Grant and Charles Gibault
Tania Yakunova
Atela Grua Vidal
Aneta Mackonyte
Helen Dixon
Anna Butler

The show has ended now but continues this weekend (16/17 May) with 500 artists across the south London bubble check them out near you ###

17/04/2026

‘Taking a line for a dance’ 2026. My reluctance to be on camera again defeated by my wonderful friend Luke who can craft a story like magic. Feeling silly but show opens tonight, come and join in 😘

SAFEHOUSE 2
137 COPELAND ROAD

SE15 3SN

PV Friday 17 APRIL 2026 - 6-9PM

Saturday 18 April 2026 12 – 6PM

Sunday 19 April 2026 - 12-4PM

sculpture


Alex Layton

Ali Darke

Anda Albu .albu.artist

Anna Kiff .kiff

Anne Petters

Bern Enright

Caroline Burgess

Cash Aspeek

Charlotte van Berckel

Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin .art

Heather Gani

Henny Burnett

Jasper Garvida

Jeremy Wyatt

Marylyn Molisso

Merrie Carlton

Nikki Holy .holy

Sam Shaw

Sian Hoolahan

Siobhan Tate

Tessa Campbell Fraser

Love adventure playgrounds. Never had one near me growing up, but I seem to be making up for it now :) Had a wonderful d...
02/04/2026

Love adventure playgrounds. Never had one near me growing up, but I seem to be making up for it now :) Had a wonderful day teaching the different methods to build a BOUNCE playground from bike tyres at the amazing Lollard Adventure Playground . The team of playworkers quickly got up to speed with the different processes to go from a bundle of used tyres to a bouncy climbing web and swings. They were getting to design, climb and play on it which was so fun to see, with all the valuable qualities of the material that would otherwise be landfull - like UV stability, flexibility, stretch, strength, being waterproof PLUS it’s endlessly and easily adaptable, so the team can help the kids add to and redesign the bouncy spaces when they want a new set up at no cost to their funding or the environment! Win win win! Part of the training provided by our friends and ace collaborators Made from Scratch who it’s always such a joy to work with. It was a privilege to meet the passionate playworking team in a space so packed with rich experiences for the local kids in Lambeth. Long live adventure playgrounds! Please support your local one, and shout for any extra bounce for your space ###

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