AN ARTIST fascinated by light and colour is to hold an exhibition of his work in Leigh.

Steve Hollingsworth, who up until recently was a resident at the centre for contemporary art in Kitakyushu, Japan, is displaying his exhibition "somanomaneon" from December 9 until February 10 at the Turnpike Gallery, Civic Square, Leigh.

Leeds born Steve is interested in transforming everyday objects and materials into mysterious, otherworldly, images and sculptures. Previous sculptures recreated domestic objects and furniture in neon light tubes and ice.

For his latest exhibition he has produced video performances using a bike and a wheel he found and attached neon parts to. In "6-0-1 bike wheel" Steve, a part time teacher at Northumbria University, pushes the wheel with a neon sign attached to it around the city after dark. The neon sign contrasts with street lighting, car headlights, shop signs and the paraphernalia of a modern city.

In the second video Steve, a former student of Gwent College, Glasgow school of art and the art institute of Chicago, rides an old fashioned utility bike with a neon tube on the cross bar around a dark playground. The rider and bike are virtually invisible, and the effect is a single line of light moving in and out of vision, contrasting with the flashing neon across the street.

He will also show a stack of glowing chairs, his crushed beige Astra car, forming a near spherical kinetic installation, and photographs.

Steve currently lives and works in Glasgow.