About Colour Rush
Colour Rush stands as a bold and vibrant light beacon that showcases intricate colour relationships, juxtapositions, and patterns.
This artwork aims to draw visitors in for closer inspection and interaction by radiating colourful patterns and vibrant hues in its vicinity. This spatial drawing began with a recent ink study as its foundation and colour palette. Two large system-based striped drawings were skilfully created, then cut, mixed, repositioned, and folded into eight individual stripes.
These luminous stripes form the basis of this octagonal lightbox. The vibrant lightbox is elevated on a mirrored plinth that reflects and multiplies the striped colour-ways. Like a kaleidoscope, this playful piece demands exploration, urging visitors to view their reflections merging with the artwork. The convergence of colours acts as a physical and metaphorical meeting point for people.
This artwork is being presented in partnership with Royal Albert Dock Liverpool.
Easy Read Description
Colour Rush is a bright artwork made from colourful lights and patterns. Its mirrored base reflects the colours, making them look like they are multiplying. Visitors can get close, explore the artwork and see their reflection. The artwork brings people together through colour, light and shared experiences.
Location
Martin Luther King Building, Royal Albert Dock
What Three Words: ///magic.papers.salsa
Sustainability Information
The materials used to create this artwork will be reused. The artwork runs off a single 16-amp power source.
About Liz West
Liz West (b.1985) is a British artist known for her wide-ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to create works that are both playful and immersive.
West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works. She 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.
Our understanding of colour can only be realised through the presence of light. By playing and adjusting colour, West brings out the intensity and composition of her spatial arrangements. West has been commissioned worldwide by institutions and organisations including Natural History Museum, London Design Festival, Paris Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, National Trust, National Science and Media Museum, Dubai Design Week, Natural England, Salford University, Fortnum & Mason for London Design Festival and Bristol Biennial. West’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Mercer Art Gallery Harrogate, Farol Santander São Paulo, Jodhpur Art Week India, Hyvinkää Art Museum Finland, St Albans Museum + Gallery, Chester Cathedral, Bangalore International Centre India and Musée Nissim de Camondo Paris; and group exhibitions at Trapholt Denmark, Kraftwerk Berlin, Tripostal Lille, York Art Gallery and Compton Verney UK.
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