Eye for Colour:
Exhibition contents
Eye for Colour has 40 exhibits, including 24 interactives, ranging from dressing up for young visitors to the Art Machine, which allows visitors to create their own masterpiece on a virtual canvas and email it home.
The exhibition is in six sections:
Seeing colour - where visitors view the gallery through a giant eyeball to see the image created on the back of the eye.
Colour and light - includes a darkened enclosure with a dramatic centrepiece of revolving prisms splitting white light into the colours of the spectrum.
Colour in culture - illustrates the powerful links between colour and culture through language, images, and objects. Visitors can discover the significance of their favourite colour, learn how people with visual impairments perceive colour and view the meals in the colour café to see how colour indicates whether food is safe to eat.
Colour in nature - includes a stunning film with images ranging from autumn leaves to rainbows. Find out how animals camouflage themselves, attract mates and send out warning signals. View the world through the eyes of a bee, a dog or a fish and then colour in a fish and watch it swim away in the Flashy Fish computer interactive.
Colour in art - a giant palette explains where pigments come from, how they are made and what they are used. Lift up the flaps on our reproduction masterpieces to find out more and then get creative on the Art Machine.
The mood room - do certain colours, create particular moods? In this enclosed space visitors can experience colour accompanied by atmospheric music while from the outside the space pulses coloured light.