Event Details
- Location: Chester Cathedral
- Address: St Werburgh Street, Chester, CH1 2DY
- Start date: 01st August 2024
- End date: 31st August 2024
- Times: 10.00am
- Entry fee: £5
Your Kaleidoscope – comprises two works by British artist Liz West.
Chester Cathedral is proud to bring Liz West back to the city with Your Kaleidoscope, which features two of the artist’s works – ‘Presence’ and ‘Hymn to the Big Wheel’. People may recall West’s stunning Our Colour Reflection which occupied the Cathedral Chapter House in 2018.
Liz West is a British artist (b.1985) who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007. West’s broad body of work encompasses wall-based artwork, sculpture, and site-specific installations. She creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light, provoking a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works.
‘Presence’ transforms the South Transept, taking the form of a tunnel, created from hundreds of iridescent dichroic panels creating a kaleidoscopic artery down the centre of the transept. One side of the tunnel features cool colours ranging from purples through to greens and blues and on the other will be warm corals, pinks and yellows.
Meanwhile, ‘Hymn to the Big Wheel’ is an immersive sculptural work exploring the illusion and physicality of colour and natural light in space. Consisting of a multi-coloured octagon nestled within a larger octagonal shape, this work encourages the viewer to reposition and align themselves to differing colour-ways to see a changing scope of colours mixing before their eyes.
Your Kaleidoscope is open Monday – Sunday, normal Cathedral hours.
Photo images by Mark Carline.