Liz West makes new work Our Colour for Bristol Biennial

Liz West | Our Colour
Bristol Biennial

Exhibition open 10am - 7pm until 10 September 2016

What does it feel like to be inside a colour? Does colour change the way you feel? For the 2016 edition of the Bristol Biennial Liz West invites visitors to drench themselves in the spectrum.

West has transformed architectural space and turned colour into an immersive and embodied experience by refracting light through carefully arranged coloured theatre gels. A vivid world is created, exploring our individual visual perception and how colour affects our senses.

This new artwork is part of a series by artist Liz West under the umbrella title Your Colour Perception that began in a residency at Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House last year in Manchester. Our Colour is an immersive light installation, developed with experts and designed as an experiment in human colour perception. Using light as a sculptural material, the artist explores the physical, emotional and psychological effects of colour within a space.

Liz says “Most people rarely have the experience of being completely immersed in pure colour. I observe that after moving through the space – walking, running, dancing – and experiencing every colour, people often go back to the colour they find most comfortable; they will then stand, sit or lay there for some time to reflect.”  

For further details about Our Colour, opening times and information about the future projects please visit www.liz-west.com or bristolbiennial.org

Bristol Biennial
The Pithay
Bristol
BS1 2LZ

Free Entry
#OurColour

My work in 'Kitsch' Exhibition (Broadwalk Arts - Bristol)

Kitsch: Selected Open Exhibition
Friday 20th – 27th January 2012

Broadwalk Arts presents: ‘Kitsch’
The aesthetics of kitsch (or ‘junk’ as it translates) can be considered brash, tacky, tasteless….
Kitsch exhibition offers an insight into 12 artists work that explores the themes, imagery and iconography associated with kitsch and how they can be incorporated within art and art practice. Kitsch is a selected multi-disciplinary exhibition of sculpture, photography, collage and painting that promises to be bright, bold and far from subtle.

Opening Night: Friday 20th January 5 -7.30pm (all welcome)
Exhibition will be open Sat 21st & Sun 22nd Jan 11-5pm & TBC sporadically/by appointment throughout the week (please contact exhibitionspace@broadwalkarts.co.uk)

Broadwalk Arts:
Unit 3
Broadwalk Shopping Centre
Knowle
Bristol
BS4 2QU
(Bus no 51 from Centre or Temple Meads Station)

For further information:
Sam Francis (curator) 07990 823874
exhibitionspace@broadwalkarts.co.uk
www.broadwalkarts.co.uk