Liz West, Colour Transfer, 2018, Artwork by Bridge British Land for Paddington Central’s Westway Bridge British Land.
Colour Transfer Steel, Aluminium and PVC 1780cm (L) x 230cm (H) x 51cm (W) 2018 Colour Transfer is a permanent artwork spanning the underside of Paddington Central’s Westway Bridge commissioned in 2016 by British Land, London. The work comprises of multiple angled coloured mirrors, vertically spanning the height of the brickwork to create an optically […]
Liz West, Our Melody Unwound, 2020, Installation for the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool City Centre, NHS.
Resin coated polyester woven fabric 800 Sq Metres 2020 Our Melody Unwound is a permanent site-specific work spanning across the atrium walls of the newly opened Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool City Centre, commissioned in 2019 by The NHS Clatterbridge Cancer Charity. Thousands of vibrantly coloured vertical triangular stripes are overlaid to create a mix […]
Liz West, Aglow, 2018, Installation at the Musee Nissim de Camondo during Paris Fashion Week.
Aglow Acrylic 1500cm (L) x 45cm (H) x 1500cm (W) 2018 Aglow consists of one hundred and sixty-nine hemispherical fluorescent coloured acrylic bowls arranged on the ground in a hexagon shape. The edges of these multiple unplugged fluorescent bowls in six neon colours will glow as if charged with electricity. These ‘live’ edges and […]
Liz West, Gradient Remix, 2022, Installation for Color Factory, Chicago, USA.
Gradient Remix Installation (LED lamps, paint, wood) Dimensions vary 2022 Gradient Remix is a permanent multi-room immersive installation, developed for Color Factory, Chicago, USA. This installation comprises a series of six chambers that use lights and mirrors to showcase and immerse visitors in the phenomena of colour mixing. As two colours merge and multiply in […]
Shuster and Moseley, The Shape of Light, 2021
Precision cut, bevelled and hand-banded clear and optically coated glass on steel base. The Shape of Light is an installation of large-scale ‘Antiprisms’ constructed from panels of clear and optically coated glass panels. The prismic forms are irregular polyhedra, created by bevelling precise angles into the sides and corners of equilateral triangles, which are […]
Shuster and Moseley, (Plan of the Path of Light) In the House of the Hidden Places, 2021
2021 Hand-cut and faceted optical glass and low-iron glass on steel base 200 x 800 x 800 cm A composition of four large-scale geometric glass sculptures (‘Glyphs) commissioned for ‘Forever is Now’, the first ever exhibition of contemporary art presented at the Great Pyramids of Giza. The work counterbalances expressions of geometric form and […]
Sam Jacob, ‘Stay Together’ for Melbourne Design Week, 2021, Melbourne, Australia.
Design at heart is an act that produces community. Though its day to day job seems to involve organising material and space, what it really does is organise relationships between us, each other and the world. These are pieces of furniture as social sculpture that highlight the way that chairs organise our bodies in […]
Sam Jacob, ‘Summer Awakening’ for Selfridges London, 2021, London, UK.
These three structures rework the ritualistic objects of celebrations and festivals we have woven around summer. The structures combine neolithic and folkloric references with modern graphic colour and geometric forms. Ancient standing stones meet the flash of a neon light, connecting rituals and gestures we have used to celebrate summer over thousands of years: Part […]
Sam Jacob, ‘Yantian Dolmen’, 2020, Shenzhen, China
The Yantian Dolmen is part of a family of urban furniture elements for the former Yantian port district of Shenzhen. Part sculpture, part furniture, they bridge the zones of parking, planting and street to make a zone that supports more varied social use. They mix elements of everyday municipal street furniture with more ancient […]
Sam Jacob, ‘Broadwick Street Arcade’ for Shaftesbury PLC, London, UK.
Proposal for alterations to an existing block in London’s West End. The existing building is a whole block that sits amongst a more varied historic street pattern. The relationship between the scale of the block and that of the surrounding street pattern produces a series of blockages and dead ends. Our proposal seeks to […]
Sam Jacobs, ‘Ideas Depot’, Exhibition Design for Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Ideas Depot is a long term exhibition space at Tate Liverpool that features paintings, sculpture, works on paper and film and video works co-curated by Tate with with primary school teachers across the city including artists from André Derain and Salvador Dalí to Mona Hatoum and Chris Ofili. Following a similar model to an […]
Sam Jacob, ‘Values of Design’ Exhibition Design for The Victoria & Albert Gallery in Shenzhen, China.
‘Values of Design’ is the title exhibition of the new V&A Gallery in Shenzhen, China, and part of a major new cultural hub called Design Society. The 770 square metre space is conceived as a forum for visitors to experience ideas around how values drive the design process, and how design creates value. Designed by […]