Exhibition
Liz West: The Trolley Series
3 Dec 2016 – 28 Jan 2017
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- The Civic
- Off Regent Street
- Barnsley
- S70 2HZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- All buses terminate at Barnsley Interchange. Leave by the main entrance and head up Regent Street South, The Civic is on your left after approximately 200 yards.
- Trains run frequently to Barnsley Interchange from Huddersfield, Leeds and Sheffield. Leave by the main entrance and head up Regent Street South, The Civic is on your left after approximately 200 yards.
In the Trolley series Barnsley-born West has experimented with building collections of block colour in the supermarket, a place where colour is in abundance, in order to understand how colour may look in mass.
About
Yellow Trolley, Blue Trolley, Red Trolley, Green Trolley, Purple Trolley and Orange Trolley
In The Trolley Series West has experimented with building collections of block colour in the supermarket, a place where colour is in abundance, in order to understand how colour may look in mass. In this work the subject matters of colour and form are the basis in which to make a collection of objects.
Liz West, born in Manchester but raised in Barnsley, graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007 with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art: Sculpture and Environmental Art. Since then she has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. West has been recently been shortlisted for several awards including Aesthetica Art Prize (2016), recent exhibitions and commissions include: Colour and Vision, Natural History Museum and Celeste Art Prize, New York.