The third year of the Winchester Light Art Project gets under way next Wednesday (April 3rd) as proposals for the 2002 exhibit go on show at the Winchester Gallery.

The Light Art Project is a three-year public art programme based in Winchester using light as the main medium.

This final year of the project involves an artist exploring the pathways and approaches to the city centre. The three short-listed artists are: Peter Freeman from Cornwall, Lulu Quinn from Bath and partners Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer, based in Portsmouth.

Each has spent a month researching Winchester's roads and footpaths and the journeys made by those who live in, work in or visit the city.

The artists have developed a number of proposals for a public art sculpture using light and will demonstrate these using digital technology, illustrations and models.

One of the proposals will be selected to appear on the city's streets in November

Tony Langridge, one of the project managers, said: "We are very keen to have people's views on this latest phase of the Winchester Light Art Project so we hope as many people as possible will pop in and share their thoughts with us."

The exhibition can be viewed from April 3rd-10th at the Winchester Galley in Park Avenue (off North Walls). The gallery, situated on the ground floor through the first entrance on the left of the School of Art buildings, is open to the public between 3pm-6.30pm, Tuesdays to Fridays, with no admission charge.

The project is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council ,Winchester City Council and traders acting through Winchester City Centre Management.