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Step inside a 5,000 sq ft rainbow - a new immersive light installation

Your Colour Perception is artist Liz West’s largest site-specific installation to date, incorporating all 5,000 square feet of Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House in Manchester.

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Photography by Stephen Iles. All images courtesy of Liz West

Photography by Stephen Iles. All images courtesy of Liz West

The new work reacts to the architectural space using colour and light to create vast immersive installation art. Using the gallery as a laboratory West also tested the influence and perception of luminous colour in a certain area and on visitors experiencing it.

Transforming Federation House into a sensory, visceral experience by overloading it with artificial chromatic light, West is interested in the psychological, physical, emotional and spiritual responses visitors experience during their encounter.

Discover more at www.liz-west.com.

Photography by Stephen Iles

Colourful light installation transforming a warehouse interior with vibrant gradients of green, yellow, orange, pink and purple illuminating the floor and walls around support columns
A large gallery space flooded with rainbow-coloured light from floor to ceiling, with two visitors standing among supporting columns illuminated in vibrant hues
Empty warehouse space transformed with rainbow-coloured neon lighting from floor to ceiling, featuring supporting pillars illuminated in red, orange, yellow and blue hues for Your Colour Perception installation
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