Our Spectral Vision: Liz West’s latest installation
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Liz West’s latest work, ‘Our Spectral Vision’, is now on display at York Art Gallery, forming part of the exhibition, Future Tense: Art in the Age of Transformation, which runs alongside the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025.
Forming part of Future Tense: Art in the Age of Transformation at York Art Gallery, Liz West’s latest installation, ‘Our Spectral Vision’ is now on display alongside installations by the artist collective, Squidsoup, through this autumn and winter.
Commissioned by the Natural History Museum in 2016, Our Spectral Vision is inspired by Isaac Newton’s experiments with light refraction through prisms. The work creates a vivid immersive environment that mixes luminous colour and radiant light using a mixture of LED lamps and dichroic glass in the form of seven prisms.
Both Liz and Squidsoup are past finalists of the Aesthetica Art Prize (in 2016 and 2015 respectively), and their joint exhibition will run alongside the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025.
Displaying Future Tense alongside the Art Prize highlights its role as a vital platform for talent development and cultural innovation. Far more than simply a competition, the Prize is a hub for creative dialogue, activism, and visionary thinking that transcends borders and disciplines. Learn more about these unmissable exhibitions here.
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