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Welcome
Visual artist Liz Cooke has been making flags and installing them at scale in festivals since 2008, transforming landscapes with visible colour and movement and invisible blessings.
Liz trained as a photographer, working and exhibiting in London throughout the 1990’s. After 6 months travelling in India, Liz moved to the Isle of Wight, to focus on her meditation practice.
Liz began making flags in 2008 and quickly became fascinated at the ability of flags to transform a space into something celebratory and up-lifting. As part of her creative practice Liz has designed and made hundreds of beautiful, arena size, festival flags, while her partner Joe Truman, surfer and painter, has designed and refined a rig that enables them to fly flags in all weather conditions. Together with their crew they have created spectacular large-scale flag installations making events come alive with the magic of colour and movement.
“My flag work is inspired by my meditation practice and the prayer flags I saw throughout the Himalayas whilst travelling in India. Each flag is a prayer flag, blessed for the good of all beings, beyond borders and nations. May all beings through all timelines and in all directions, without exception, be liberated.”
Contact Liz for quotes, bookings and commissions
Flag Hire
© Liz Cooke
We work closely with production teams to create beautiful flag installations for festivals and events, and have 18 years of experience in flying flags in all weather conditions.
We undertake site visits, consult site maps, and plan with our clients to create flag installations that have maximum effect in terms of their layout.
The flags are large scale and are perfect for big festivals and events. They mark out arenas and areas that can be seen over large distances, helping audiences to navigate a big site, and to delineate areas.
Each flag flies from a 6m scaffold pole, attached to steel groundworks. It is a heavy duty, robust rig that has been vigorously tested at scale for nearly 2 decades.
The flags are all designed and handmade by Liz and we have hundreds of original designs and colour-ways.
Choose from:
- Arena festival flags
Our Arena flags use an extension pole that sits on top of the scaffold pole, so they stand at up to 9m high. They come with a bespoke rotational arm, allowing the designs to be seen even when there is no wind. - Banners
Our huge banners and their long tails fly without an arm and work well in windy conditions and exposed landscapes. Their movement is dreamy and mesmerising.
Contact Liz to find out more about hiring the flags for your event.
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Environmental
© Denis Sinyakov / Greenpeace
The flags are designed and made by Liz in her off-grid, solar-powered workshop on the Isle of Wight, in an intentionally meditative, small scale model of working.
Moving towards a zero-waste policy, Liz repairs flag sets and upcycles them into other designs when they are past their best, which additionally creates new colour-ways and tones in the designs. The cut-outs and scraps from each new flag set are used as details in other designs, made into fringe bunting, or used in various craft projects. No fabric is wasted or binned.
During 2019 Liz began exploring the use of working with recycled materials, turning a paragliding wing into a canopy for Carnevale at Rhythmtree Festival, and using end of roll spinnaker fabric to make a set of flags for Greenpeace for their “Protect Our Oceans” campaign.
Liz is currently collecting sails, spinnakers and paragliders from local friends with a view to creating new art and banner work from used materials
© Bárbara Sánchez Palomero / Greenpeace
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Get in Touch
We are now taking bookings for 2026, and we look forward to hearing from you.
We have a minimum booking of 30 flags for all new clients. Please can you let us know your event dates and location when contacting us regarding a flag hire.
The following dates in 2026 are fully booked.
22nd – 25th May
29th – 31st May
1st – 25th June
8th – 13th July
16th – 31st July
1st – 5th August
15th – 16th August
21st – 23rd August
Commissions open again in October 2026.31st
Clients
We have been privileged to work with some amazing clients over the last decade, designing and rigging flag installations for small, medium and large festivals and events, transforming landscapes with vibrant colour and movement.
Our clients have included:
