{"id":146434,"date":"2025-09-19T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146434\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:00:25","slug":"23-pix-first-look-inside-new-immersive-exhibition-at-york-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146434\/","title":{"rendered":"23 pix: First look inside new immersive exhibition at York Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thu 18 Sep<\/p>\n

\"\"Artist Liz West with her work ‘Our Spectral Vision’ at York Art Gallery. Photographs: Rachel Rogers<\/p>\n

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Thu 18 Sep 2025
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Rachel Rogers<\/a>
News<\/a>, Things to do<\/a><\/p>\n

Two new exhibitions are opening at York Art Gallery tomorrow (Friday).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a double-bill launch at York Art Gallery this week as the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025 and Future Tense: Art in the Age of Transformation open to the public from Friday 19 September.<\/p>\n

Both exhibitions will run until Sunday 25 January 2026. Take a look at these stunning new exhibitions in our gallery below.<\/p>\n

Aesthetica Art Prize 2025<\/p>\n

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The Aesthetica Art Prize returns to York Art Gallery, celebrating its 19th anniversary. The exhibition features 25 shortlisted contemporary artists from over 1000 entries, with mediums ranging from paintings and sculpture to photography and digital art forms.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re really seeing a selection of the very best, cutting edge contemporary art of today,\u201d said Livia Turnbull, curator of contemporary art at York Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s wonderful about contemporary artists is that they\u2019re referring to the themes of everyday life, the things that we come in contact with, or see on the news. We have artists dealing with mental health, climate change, migration, belonging and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

These include artist \u00c0s\u00eck\u00f2\u2019s focus on migration and cultural memory in his series New World Giants, Hussina Raja\u2019s STATION, an exploration of South Asian and Caribbean cultures in the London landscape. The Object, Pen with Tattoo, The Portrait and The Vinyl, an audiovisual installation by Joanne Coates (UK House of Commons Election Artist for 2024) depicts working-class landscapes in the rural Northeast of England.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very grateful to have worked on a show that gets to foreground living artists who get to benefit from their work being in our gallery,\u201d said Livia.<\/p>\n

Future Tense<\/p>\n

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The artists exhibiting in Future Tense are Aesthetica Art Prize alumni themselves \u2013 Squidsoup with Submergence and Liz West with Our Spectral Vision. <\/p>\n

Submergence is an immersive work that features over 8,000 individually suspended LEDs, providing a sensory experience unfolding over a 12-minute rotation. Visitors can walk through and touch the suspended LEDs and interact with the art piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a chance to have fun,\u201d said Livia. \u201cIt makes you want to stay in there for a long time, and engage with it in quite a playful way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liz West, like Squidsoup, also uses light and colour to create rich, immersive, and interactive displays. Her installation draws primarily on mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton\u2019s experiments with light refraction through prisms.<\/p>\n

Titled\u00a0Our Spectral Vision, and commissioned by the Natural History Museum, the work 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.<\/p>\n

Both exhibitions are included in general admission which can be\u00a0booked in advance on the Gallery\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu 18 Sep Artist Liz West with her work ‘Our Spectral Vision’ at York Art Gallery. Photographs: Rachel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-146434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}