Creative Networks x Liz West

As we celebrate our 180th year, we welcome Leeds Arts University alum, Liz West, to talk about her career as an artist and her extensive experience of exhibitions, public commissions and installations.

Liz West is a British artist known for her wide-ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to create works that are both playful and immersive.

West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works. She is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour. West's investigation into the relationship between colour and light is often realised through an engagement between materiality and a given site. Our understanding of colour can only be realised through the presence of light. By playing and adjusting colour, West brings out the intensity and composition of her spatial arrangements.

The bar will be open from 4-6pm, prior to the start of the talk

The auditorium will be open from 6pm and the talk will start at 6:30pm.

West has been commissioned worldwide by institutions and organisations including Natural History Museum, London Design Festival, Paris Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, National Trust, National Science and Media Museum, Dubai Design Week, Natural England, Salford University, Fortnum & Mason for London Design Festival and Bristol Biennial. West’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Mercer Art Gallery Harrogate, Farol Santander São Paulo, Jodhpur Art Week India, Hyvinkää Art Museum Finland, St Albans Museum + Gallery, Chester Cathedral, Bangalore International Centre India and Musée Nissim de Camondo Paris; and group exhibitions at Trapholt Denmark, Kraftwerk Berlin, Tripostal Lille and Compton Verney UK.

About Creative Networks

Part of Leeds Arts Universities professional events programme, high-profile speakers entertain, challenge and inspire their audiences as they recount their career journeys and provide insights into the latest industry developments.

Previous speakers have included:

• Film directors, Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann
• Fashion branding expert and designer, Gary Aspden
• Comic book writer, Gail Simone
• Singer, songwriter and producer, Imogen Heap
• Director of Arts and Learning at The Barbican, Will Gompertz
• Award winning illustrator, Chris Riddell
• TV producer and screenwriter, Russell T Davies
• Artist and human cyborg, Neil Harbisson

It’s a fantastic chance to meet other professionals and hear fascinating talks from industry leading speakers.