Colourscape is a collection of large inflatable sculptures which are usually found in Britain but it does also appear in other countries (e.g. Belgium)
Colourcape was originally called the Netelfold Festival Trust and was started in 1984 by Simon Desorgher & Lawrence Casserley. It started out as a contempory music festival, they were trying to create a new festival south of the river and chose the Nettlefold Hall in Lambeth, London as the venu. Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... St. ...
In 1989 the Festival Directors (Simon Desorgher & Lawrence Casserley) started a collaboration with Peter Jones & Lynne Dickens. In 1995, along with the Festival Trustees encouragement they commisioned a walk-in sculpture made of colour, and so Colourscape Music Festival was born.
Every year since then Colourscape has arrived on Clapham Common and in 2004 celebrated its 10th aniversary, to celebrate this instead of using Festival 1 (the structure that is used there every year) they chose to display three seperate structures (Festival 2, Mirror Islands 1 and one other which was created specialy). Clapham Common is a triangular area of grassland of about 200 acres (0. ...
As well as Clapham, Colourscape Music Festival also put on shows at many other locations accros the UK, for example in Liverpool and York Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ... York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ...
Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher first worked with Colourscape artists Peter Jones and Lynne Dickens in 1983, when they built a fifty foot inflatable tube for performances of Matthieu Sadowsky's "Ourdission", where the audience enter a sound environment intended to emulate the interior of a giant flute.
Colourscape is a large walk-in sculpture of pure colour.
The power and influence of Colourscape on the festival cannot be over-emphasised.
Colourscape is an inflatable labyrinth of highly coloured chambers lit by natural daylight.
Colourscape is open to the public during the week of Monday 16th June to Friday 20th from 12 midday to 1pm only; the rest of the day being reserved for school visits.
For the Grand Finale of the 2003 LiverpoolColourscape Festival on the Sunday, Liverpool-based group Urban Strawberry Lunch perform in Colourscape on their own fantastic instruments made from tubing and scrap materials, 1 to 6pm at The Pierhead.
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