The UK's largest light festival is coming to London's West End and here is everything you need to know.

Famous locations around the capital including King’s Cross, Victoria, Westminster, Fitzrovia, Mayfair, the West End, Waterloo and Southbank will be transformed by mesmerising illuminated artworks during the four-day event.

More than 50 works by UK and international artists will be on display daily from 5.30pm to 10.30pm between January 18 and 21.

The free festival aims to turn London's streets, buildings and public spaces into a nocturnal art exhibition of light and sound, with visitors experiencing the capital as an "open-air gallery without walls".

There are easy walking routes between many of the locations and plenty of opportunities to stay and linger over a drink or a meal at the many venues and attractions along the way.

The first Lumiere London, produced by arts charity Artichoke and commissioned by the Mayor of London, was staged two years ago and attracted audiences of more than a million over four nights.

Some of the highlights for this year include:

In Trafalgar Square - Child Hood by Collectif Coin (France): Composed of a canopy of luminous spheres, that sail above the audience and will fill Trafalgar Square with light.

St James's Churchyard, West End - My Light is Your Light by Alaa Minawi (Palestine/Lebanon): This installation pays tribute to Syrian refugees and the terrible conditions they have experienced in their migrations across the world.

Rambert Building, South Bank - The Light on Their Feet: Footfalls for Rambert by David Ward (UK): Inspired by one of Edgar Degas’ sculptures of a dancer, artist David Ward has photographed the soles of the feet of each of Rambert’s company of international dancers for this artwork on the South Bank. The photographs form the basis of a series of images that fade slowly into visibility and then out as they ‘dance’ across Rambert’s RIBA-award winning building.

Oxford Circus - Origin of the World Bubble 2018 by Miguel Chevalier (France), software by Cyrille Henry: Suspended above the pedestrianised Oxford Circus, the psychedelic work, inspired by the world of micro-biology and the constant movement and division of cells, will respond to the movements of the viewer below, transforming from black and white to vivid, colour-saturated visual experiences.

Queen Elizabeth Walkway, South Bank - The Wave by Vertigo (Denmark): Consisting of 40 triangular and glowing sound gates standing over three metres tall and creating a path of over 80 metres long, The Wave will become a beacon of light along South Bank. Audiences will co-create the experience as the gates respond to movements both sonically and visually, constantly changing across four nights.

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