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International award-

winning visual artist

Liz West – renowned

for creating vivid

environments that

mix luminous color

and radiant light – has

two major exhibitions

running in England

through November.*

Lighting designer Mike

Brannon sits down

with the cu ing edge

artist to discuss her

in uences.

U

.K.-native and resident Liz West
works across a variety of medi-

ums to provoke a heightened

sensory awareness in the viewer
through her works. She is inter-

ested in exploring how sensory phenomena can
invoke psychological and physical responses that

tap into one’s own relationship to color. Typically

West explores the relationship between color
and light by using architectural spaces with light

radiating outside of its expected boundaries. She
playfully refracts light by using translucent, trans-

parent, or re ective materials to direct the ow of M
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arti cial and natural light. West lives and works in MUS
Manchester, England and earned a BA in Fine Art: A
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Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow ME
School of Art.
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lies beneath one of her Mike Brannon: When did you rst realize that ©
lighting was going to be important in your life? LES
installations called N I
An Addictive Mix.
Liz West: Light has always been a pivotal element HE
within my life. Most of my earliest memories as
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