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Five2Watch: Colour


For #Five2Watch this week we feature five artists who create artworks that feature colour: Liz West, Stuart Dodman, Caroline Elliott, Jonathan Gabb and Sheila Ravnkilde.


Our Colour, 2016

Liz West

Does colour change the way you feel? What does it feel like to be inside a rainbow? For the 2016 edition of the Bristol Biennial British artist Liz West invited visitors to drench themselves in the spectrum. West transformed architectural space and turned colour into an immersive and embodied experience by refracting light through carefully arranged coloured theatre gels. A vivid world was created, exploring human visual perception and how colour affects our emotions and our bodies. 

Liz West


MW6, 2018

Stuart Dodman

Oil on canvas.

Stuart Dodman


Red flux, 2016

Caroline Elliott

Red flux I, 85x65cm, oil on canvas.

Caroline Elliott


Colour layer 14 + white, 2016

Jonathan Gabb

Using a combination of prefabricated materials, and allowing their more vernacular fabrication methods to influence the further deployment of fine art materials, colour layer 14 + white is an assembly comprising of ascending sizes of plastic sheets built from one point and then finally interrupted in its own space by arbitrary lengths of black, (in this case black bamboo), these interruptions act as a catalyst to disrupt the otherwise systematic appearance of the colour body.

Jonathan Gabb


LONG BOXES – 12 colours, 2017

Sheila Ravnkilde

Sheila Ravnkilde showed LONG BOXES – 12 colours, and BOXES – 24 colours at Harrington Mill Studios in 2016

The LONG BOXES activated the long wall. The viewer was offered a constantly changing experience of the work as they walked past, the eye invited to pause and focus on the qualities of both the individual boxes, and the whole wall.

BOXES – 24 colours drew the eye on entering the exhibition space. This wall offered a constantly changing experience of the work and the relationships between the boxes, as the eye scanned the wall.

The boxes in both pieces of work were built up with layers of acrylic paint and glazes.

The work was installed to work with the exhibiting space, heightening the viewer’s experience of the space.

Sheila Ravnkilde


Published 23 February 2018

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