Will Coleman (storyteller)

[6] In 2014 Coleman toured Cornwall in GogMagog with Bec Appleby, Jenny Beare and Steven Kelly, a story rooted in Cornish culture.

[8] In 2016 Coleman and his team created "The Man Engine" in the form of a Cornish miner, at 33 feet high, the largest puppet ever made in Britain.

[9][10] The project was commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape being added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites and was first unveiled in Tavistock on 25 July 2016.

[11] The name references the man engine, a mechanism of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms installed in mines to aid miners' journeys to and from the working levels.

[14] Coleman said “the figure was designed to be a reminder of thousands of years of mining history in Cornwall and the region’s geology”.