James Turrell: A Retrospective enlightens at the National Gallery of Australia

By Sally Pryor
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:12pm, first published December 4 2014 - 9:29am

It's strange to think that colours can be emotional. That watching a room change hue, from blue to green, almost imperceptibly, until suddenly the air is saturated, can make you feel something. It's not just amazement, or baffled curiosity, either. It's something deeper, a psychological unease.

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