DESIGNER Wayne Hemingway has created a silent disco inside Tate Liverpool to encourage visitors to take a different view of sculpture.

Music-lovers are invited to listen to a specially-chosen soundtrack through headphones while wandering through a selection of sculptures from the gallery’s national collection.

The usually plain white walls have been painted a dark shade of purple, and mirror balls hang from the ceiling.

Flashing disco lights illuminate a dancefloor at the centre of the space.

Morecambe-born Hemingway, 48, who curated the exhibition with his 22-year-old son, Jack, said: “We wanted to make the experience as important as the content.

“There’s increasingly a need to encourage young people in art, but often everything in a gallery feels like ‘I’m not meant to be here’.

“From my experience going into galleries with our four kids and trying to interest them in art, the silence can be oppressive.”

It was Jack’s idea to turn the space into a nightclub, with figures placed to look like they are at a disco.

The music will be changed each month to keep the experience fresh.