Hue

In this artwork, four sculptures explored the ‘shape’ of colour using the RGB colour model - three coordinates which describe colour based on the three light-responsive ‘cones’ in the human eye. Starting at 000, 000, 000 (an absence of light and therefore deepest black), the first coordinate increases the redness of a hue, the second increases greenness, the latter blueness. At 256, 256, 256 each coordinate reaches its maximum, peaking with brilliant white as the amalgamation of all colour light. Taking RGB coordinates as their dimensions, these works illustrated the three primary colours that make up all others, while one white 256 cm cube encapsulated them all.

This project was part of the HUE group exhibition at the Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2015

Photography by Hannah Wilmshurst