Liz West

Wednesday 4 March 2026 6:00pm-8:00pm

6:00pm - Auditorium opens
6:30pm - Talk starts

The bar will be open from 4:00pm-6:00pm prior to the start of the talk. 

Booking is essential as places are limited.

Location: Leeds Arts University, Blenheim Walk, Leeds LS2 9AQ

As we celebrate our 180th year, Creative Networks welcomes artist and 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.

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.