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Liz West
Installation Artist
Manchester
Liz West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. Working across a variety of mediums, West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works.
Liz West graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2007, she has since shown and made work for solo and group exhibitions, artist residencies, commissions and publications both nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include: Chroma, BLANKSPACE, Manchester (2012), On Brown & Violet Grounds, Piccadilly Place, Manchester (2013), An Additive Mixture, Exeter Phoenix (2014), Vanishing Boundaries, MediaCityUK (2014), Assaulting the Asphalt, Airspace Gallery, Stoke- on-Trent (2014/15) and Your Colour Perception, Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces Federation House, Manchester (2015).
West is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour. West's investigation into the relationship between colour and light is often realised through an engagement between materiality and a given site.
Within physical and architectural space, West uses light as a material that radiates outside of its boundaries and containers. She playfully refracts light through using translucent, transparent or reflective materials, directing the flow of artificial light. These ephemeral interventions forge new spaces and environments, from flooding a physical site with a rich mixture of light to using colour to disrupt the white flatness of paper.