Colourscape

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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 contemporary music festival; the aims was to create a new festival south of the river and the organisers chose the Nettlefold Hall in Lambeth, London as the venue.

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 commissioned 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 anniversary. To celebrate this, instead of using Festival 1 (the structure that is used there every year), they chose to display three separate structures (Festival 2, Mirror Islands 1 and one other which was created specially).

As well as Clapham, Colourscape Music Festival also put on shows at many other locations across the UK, for example in Liverpool and York.