THE FOLLOWING pieces encapsulate three essential qualities of light: colour, dynamism and purity. Somehow at odds with each other, but often working together, and all elemental facets of illumination. Artist Liz West is
known for her use of vivid colours, saturating and transforming spaces with reflected, transmuted light rays and rainbows. Jason Bruges uses technology to create immersive, interactive artworks, increasingly inspired by nature and bringing it into urban spaces through biomimicry. Both blur boundaries: between art and design, as well as art and technology. Both are concerned with bringing art to the everyday environment. Both seek to engage people and provoke response. Both appreciate the impact of light on mood and emotion, and the importance of light as a force for well-being. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum – or more accurately involving the whole spectrum – three recent lighting schemes explore the potential of white light to be equally evocative and powerful. Each fuses light and architecture, blurs the line between natural and artificial illumination, and makes art of simplicity.