Liz West creates installations exploring colour, light and spatial perception. Her work uses materials including coloured mirrors, dichroic glass, LEDs and lighting gels, with configurations developed for the architecture and audiences of particular sites.
Saves on this device.Already working on a project?Adds directly to your existing saved project and keeps its brief intact.
Independent directory profile. Big Art Partners does not claim to represent this artist.
Not documented; confirm with the artist, studio or estate.
Research notes for project planning
What the project record tells us
Original Scunthorpe commission, 2016; later site adaptations
Reflective colour makes architecture visible
Our Colour Reflection was first commissioned at 20–21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe in 2016. West describes a modular indoor installation of coloured acrylic mirrors placed at different heights, reflecting the building and its visitors while sending colour into the interior. Later settings listed by the artist include churches, museums and a car park. A prospective host could assess the architecture visible in the mirrors, the available light and the paths people would take, rather than choosing a floor area from photographs alone.
Which architectural details and visitor paths would the mirror arrangement reveal?
Big Art Partners planning prompt
Natural History Museum, Colour and Vision exhibition, 2016
Preserve the design collaborator’s role
Our Spectral Vision was commissioned by London’s Natural History Museum for its 2016 Colour and Vision exhibition. The artist describes seven prisms combining LED light and dichroic glass, with the artwork and overall design realised in collaboration with Nissen Richards Studio Limited. The work is identified as a modular indoor installation. That record gives a host a useful starting point for discussing placement and light conditions, while preserving the named design collaboration. Any future presentation would still need confirmation of configuration, delivery responsibilities and current requirements.
Which configuration and design responsibilities would apply to a new indoor presentation?
Big Art Partners planning prompt
Bristol Light Festival, Cabot Circus car park, 2026
Reconsidering a car park through colour
For Bristol Light Festival in 2026, West transformed a floor of the Cabot Circus multi-storey car park into Our Colour. Her project account identifies LED lamps and theatrical lighting gels as the means of saturating the space with colour. The site provides a concrete example of an everyday building becoming a walk-through installation. A host exploring a similarly utilitarian setting could test how existing columns, circulation routes and daylight affect the experience, then develop a plan for separating the exhibition’s visitor use from normal building operations.
Save this reference to your shortlist while you explore. Review your selection, then carry the references you choose into a commissioning brief for your site, audience, timing and open questions.
Your shortlist is saved on this device. Saving a reference does not contact the artist or reserve a work. Participation, availability, price and site suitability need confirmation.
