Leeds Art Gallery brings a new experience to its visitors when visual artist Kevin Laycock combines forces with music composer Michael Berkeley.
Leeds Art Gallery brings a new experience to its visitors in an exhibition that running from Saturday 19 September. Visual artist Kevin Laycock combines forces with music composer Michael Berkeley in a uniquely collaborative project 'Collision' exploring the relationship between music and colour through a series of artworks synchronised to a musical score. Kevin Laycock is an abstract painter whose works appear to give an order to colour through geometric lines and shapes in systems which responds to musical theory, colour and form, Working with Michael Berkeley the well-known broadcaster behind BBC Radio 3's 'Private Passions' and also a significant composer in his own right, they align the theory of music with the colour scale, The outcome: a frieze of digital 'wallpaper' projected onto the gallery wall that creates an immersive visual environment animated by Berkeley's soundscape - a combination of recorded, electronic and acoustic music. A series of Laycock's framed paintings help trace the development of the collaboration and Laycock's endeavour to create the approaches and systems underlying his visual response to music. Later at the Gallery, starting on 11 December, an exhibition 'Construction and its Shadow' brings together works - paintings, reliefs and sculpture, from a neglected generation of British artists, including Jeffrey Steele, Gillian Wise and Anthony Hill who took their lead from revolutionary Soviet artists and the architecture of their day to create radical new art that worked within precisely controlled systems.
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