Our Spectral Vision
Installation (dichroic glass, LEDs, acrylic)
700cm (L) x 220cm (H) x 40cm (W)
2016
Our Spectral Vision is a modular indoor work commissioned by the Natural History Museum, London for special exhibition Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature (July until November 2016). The artwork and overall design was realised in collaboration with Nissen Richards Studio Limited. Later presented in Winter Lights Canary Wharf (January 2018) and Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception exhibition at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Warwickshire (July – October 2018). Our Spectral Vision creates a vivid immersive environment that mixes luminous colour and radiant light using a mixture of LED lamps and dichroic glass in the form of seven prisms. The work explores our individual relationship with colour and our understanding of how we see it. Replicating the diversion of white LED light through large-scale prisms, the work drenches the room with pure saturated light.
Design realisation by Nissen Richards Studio Limited. Photographs © Hannah Devereux / Jamie Woodley