The company was founded in 2014 by Ruthie Ford, a visual artist with a longtime love of festivals and a passion for creating surreal and magical wonderlands for people to lose themselves in.

From humble beginnings installing giant textile flower garden installations with a small team of friends Cloud Nine now provide a range of services from site specific or area wide installation art to set design and dressing to full site wide decor design, build and management. Please see our testimonials page for examples of how we work with our past and present clients. Get in touch to find out how we could work with you.

Cloud Nine employ up to 30 freelancers for the larger festivals we work on. Each year we offer opportunities to new makers and we have regular freelance talent returning year on year. The creative and talented people that we work with include set painters, set dressers, installation artists, seamstresses, illustrators, carpenters, construction crew, florists, rope access workers and riggers.