Liz West (UK, 1985) graduated from Glasgow School of Art. West's broad body of work encompasses site-specific installations, sculpture, and wall-based artwork, creating vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. The artist aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her installations, interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour. West investigation into the relationship between colour and light is often realised through an engagement between materiality and a given site. As she claims, 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, National Trust, National Science and Media Museum, London Design Festival, Natural England, Allied London, Grosvenor, British Land, Salford University, Leftcoast, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Eden Arts and Bristol Biennial. West's work has been included in exhibitions with St Albans Museum + Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, Chester Cathedral, Compton Verney, Castlefield Gallery in Manchester, Cornerhouse, Brunel University, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, UK Young Artists and Royal British Society of Sculptors in the UK, as well as internationally in Milan, Dubai, Paris, Berlin and New York. Permanent works are sited in London, Manchester and Bury. Her work has been widely published on art magazines and publications.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
30 October 2020 - TBC 2021 : In Physical Reality, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland. More information
Colour, etc, Tripostal, Lille, France (forthcoming)
Hundreds and Thousands, Large scale outdoor installation at The Tide, Greenwich Peninsula, London, UK
2020
Through No.3, Duke of York Square (Kensington + Chelsea Art Week), London, UK
Colourways, The Wilson Art Gallery, Cheltenham, UK
LUCE, two-person exhibition with Jemma Appleby, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK
2019
Dans la Lumière, Beaulieu-en-Rouergue Abbey, France
Live Colour, Clerkenwell Design Week, London, UK
Aglow, Milan Design Week, Piazza Belgioioso, Milan, Italy
Our Colour Reflection, St Albans Museum + Gallery, St Albans, UK
2018
Colour Field, The Civic, Barnsley, UK
Aglow, Dubai Design Week, Dubai Design District, Dubai, UAE
Aglow, Paris Fashion Week, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, France
Our Colour Reflection, Chester Cathedral, Chester, UK
2016
Autumn Lights, Little Moreton Hall, National Trust, Cheshire, UK
Our Colour, Pithay Studios, Bristol Biennial, Bristol, UK
Solstice Ritual, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Penarth, UK
Our Colour Reflection, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, St. Marks Church, London and Broadgate London, UK
2015
Zenith Blue + Primary Red, ARCADECARDIFF, Cardiff, UK
The Light Room - Your Colour Perception, The Willis Museum, Basingstoke, UK
Through, &model, Leeds, UK
Your Colour Perception, Federation House, Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, Manchester, UK
2013
On Brown & Violet Grounds, Piccadilly Place/Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester, UK
2012
Chroma, BLANKSPACE Gallery, Manchester, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Online
2019
Huetopia, Noho Studios, London, UK
Abstract Allies, Zuleika Gallery, London, UK
Colour Snap, Art and Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, UK
2017
Perspective Playground, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany
Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Drawing for Sculpture, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK
Winter Lights Festival, Canary Wharf, London, UK
2016
Colour Wheel, Vernon Street Gallery, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
Aesthetica Art Prize, York St Mary’s, York Museums Trust, York, UK
Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award Exhibition, London, UK
2015
Light Fantastic, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
Unnatural Pleasures, Radiant Gallery, Plymouth, UK
2013
Synthesis, Victoria Warehouse Hotel part of Manchester Science Festival, Manchester, UK
Four, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2012
World Event Young Artists, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Still Here, Untitled BCN, Barcelona, Spain
2011
The Tomorrow People, Elevator Gallery, London, UK
At Play 3, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK
Colour, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
2010
Expectations, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Deptford X, Core Gallery, London, UK
Collagerie, Stew Gallery, Norwich, UK
Collections, Residencies & Awards
2016
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts Award
Aesthetica Art Prize, York, UK (shortlisted)
2015
RBS Bursary Award 2015, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, UK
2013
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts Award
2012
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts Award
2011
The Title Art Prize, Manchester, UK (shortlisted)
Woolgather Art Prize, Leeds, UK (shortlisted)
2010
Celeste International Art Prize, New York, USA (shortlisted)
Northern Futures Awards, Barnsley, UK (winner People’s Choice Award)
The National Open Art Competition, Chichester, UK (shortlisted)
Selected Commissions
2019
Iri-Descent, Fortnum and Mason, London,UK ; Commissioned by London Design Festival
Swathe, Browns East, London, UK ; Commissioned by Browns Fashion
ITV Ident (May 13 - 19); Commissioned by ITV Creative
2018
Aglow, Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris, Dubai Design District in UAE and Piazza Belgioioso in Milan, Italy; Commissioned by Nemozena
Colour Transfer, Paddington Central, London, UK ; Commissioned by British Land
A Subjective Mix, The National Festival of Marking, The Exchange, Blackburn, UK; Commissioned by Super Slow Way & Deco Publique
2016
Sevenfold, Bury; Commissioned by The Met Theatre
Our Spectral Vision, Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature Exhibition, London, UK; Commissioned by Natural History Museum
2015
Through No.3, Spinningfields, Manchester, UK; Commissioned by Castlefield Gallery and Allied London
An Additive Mix, Light Fantastic Exhibition, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; Commissioned by Science Museum Londo
Talks
2019
Istanbul Light, Turkey, 20 September
Clerkenwell Design Week, London, 23 May
Domus Clerkenwell, London, 21 May
Milan Design Week, Zona K, Milan, 9 April
Stockholm, Sweden, 12 February
Battersea Power Station West, London, 16 January
2018
Science Museum Lates, London, 28 November
The Civic, Barnsley, 27 October
Chester Cathedral, Chester, 27 February
super/collider presents, Second Home, London, 20 February
2017
Lysets Dag, Oslo, Norway, 22 November
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, 8 March
Broadgate Welcome Centre, Broadgate (British Land), 8 February
University of South Wales, Pontypridd Campus, Treforest, 2 February
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, 18 January
2016
Good Morning House, Suwon, South Korea 16 November
UK Young Artists National Festival, University of Derby, Derby, 4 November
IALD Enlighten Americas at Sheraton Convention Center, Mexico, 14 October
Lysets Dag at Dansk Center for Lys, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 October
IALD Lighting Perspectives at Light+Building, Frankfurt, Germany,14 March
BDP, London, 14 January
2015
LightspacedotLondon at Lux Live, Excel Centre, London, 18 November
Nourishment, Roots and Wings, Hull, 30 July
BDP, Manchester, 15 April
2014
Cornerhouse, Manchester, 17 May
Future City Series, The University of Salford & Quays Culture, 2 April
Publications
One Artist, One Material: Fifty-five makers on their medium, Frame Publishers
MIX Magazine, Issue 55, Autumn Winter 2020/21
Architectural Digest Middle East Magazine, February 2019
New Media Installation, Gingko Press, 2018
Lust for Light - Illuminated Works by Hannah Stouffer, Gingko Press, 2018
Mondo Magazine, Issue 96, February/March 2017
Emboss Magazine, Issue 6 (USA), 2017
IW Magazine, January (China), 2017
Design Magazine, January (South Korea), 2017
Professional Lighting Design Magazine, No. 103, November/December 2016
One Artist / One Material, FRAME Magazine, November/December, 2016
Lumitecture: Illuminating Interiors for Designers and Architects by Anna Yudina, Thames & Hudson, 2016
Lumière: La lumière dans l'art contemporain by Céline Delavaux, Palette, 2015
Frame Magazine, November/December 2015
Mondo*Arc Magazine, Issue 87, October/November 2015
Lighting Magazine: Illumination in Architecture, Volume 47 Issue 5, October 2015
Professional Lighting Design Magazine, No.99, September/October 2015
Mondo*Arc Magazine, Issue 86, August/September 2015
Work on the Line (Artist Book Collaboration with David Penny), 2015,
Metal Professional Lighting Design Magazine, No.97, March/April 2015
Interior|Fashion Magazine (Germany), 2015
Hi Home Magazine (Russia), 2015
Frame Magazine, May/June 2015
In The City, Hanover Project/Victoria Lucas, 2014
Reunion: The Dallas Review, University of Texas, 2014
Constructing my Survival, EDGECondition, Art & Architecture, vol.3, September 2014
The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture by Jac Scott, The Crowood Press Ltd, 2014
Exeter Living, Issue 154, March 2014
The Big Issue, Issue 962, 21 January 2013
Independent on Sunday, 26 August 2012
Chroma (exhibition catalogue), Kroma Press, 2012
The Title Art Prize (exhibition catalogue), 2011
Woolgather Art Prize (exhibition catalogue), East Street Arts, 2011
Celeste Art Prize (exhibition catalogue), Zel Edizioni, 2010
Expectations New York/Berlin (exhibition catalogue), Zel Edizioni, 2010
36EXP. (exhibition catalogue), 2010
A Moving Exhibition (exhibition catalogue), 2010
Talent of the First Degree, Jack Mottram, The Herald, 15 June 2007
Education
2007
BA(Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture & Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2004
Foundation Diploma, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK