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To get involved with the Colour Society of Australia: New South Wales Division, please enter your details here to be subscribed to our mailing list. This will keep you up to date with upcoming events.Coming Events
The monthly events of the NSW Division for 2018 will be added here as they are announced. You can also subscribe to news of all upcoming CSA events around Australia by "liking" our Facebook page found here.April 2018 - Botanica Art Exhibition: Symbiosis with botanical artist Angela Loeber
Botanical artist Angela Lober will guide us around Australia’s leading contemporary botanical art exhibition Botanica at the Royal Botanic Garden and then discuss aspects of her use of watercolours in a Q&A session with members of the Colour Society. After seeing Botanica we will visit two other fascinating free exhibitions in the gardens on the same weekend, the Margaret Flockton Award exhibition of botanical illustration and an exhibition of Sogetsu ikebana floral arrangements, Nature Intertwining. Limit 15 participants: book on https://www.trybooking.com/VJIW.
Past Events
Below are some of the past events that we've enjoyed in NSW.March 2018 - ICD symposium Colour Education - Past, Present and Future
A symposium of four presentations to celebrate AIC International Colour Day 2018:
Colour Exercises from the Shillito Design School (Eva Fay)
The New Anatomy of Colour (David Briggs)
Colour Education for Architecture and Interior Design in the 21st Century (Annamaria di Cara)
Travels through Colour Space - a Painter's View (Jean Pretorius)
Sunday March 25, 10.30 am to 2.30 pm including 30 minutes lunch break. International School of Colour and Design - iscd, 3/118 Walker St, North Sydney. Doors open 10.15 am. Tickets only $35 non-members/$25 members/$20 students; includes light lunch and use of materials. Booking essential by Thursday March 22nd at https://www.trybooking.com/UQNS.
February 2018 - Azulejo Tiles of Portugal with Annamaria di Cara FDIA
Azulejo Tiles of Portugal: Reflections on Colour, Culture, Place with Annamaria di Cara FDIA, followed by dinner at the Palacio Portuguese restaurant, 49A Canterbury Road, Petersham. Wednesday February 28th, 6.30pm for 6.45pm. Tickets $49 non-members/$39 members/$39 students, includes gourmet share style dinner and a glass of wine or soft drink. Book at https://www.trybooking.com/UGIU.
October 2017 - Hidden in their Leaves with Associate Professor Liz Williamson
Associate Professor Liz Williamson (UNSW Art & Design) will discuss the use of plant dyes in Australia in the context of a history including surveys by 19th century scientists including Baron Ferdinand von Mueller and the pioneering research by Jean Carman, whose book Dyemaking with Eucalypts (1978) became a reference for Williamson's own experimentation extracting dyes to colour hand spun wool yarn for her weavings. Her talk will be preceded by a viewing of an exhibition of her students' work and our 2017 AGM.
September 2017 - Marion Hall Best exhibition
Our September event is a visit to an exhibition of the work of the influential interior designer Marion Hall Best at the Museum of Sydney guided by CSA NSW committee member and past President Glen Bowden. For details see http://eepurl.com/c25PXD
August 2017 - Colouration in Nature with Dr Kate Umbers and Dr James O'Hanlon
Dr Kate Umbers (UWS) and Dr James O’Hanlon (UNE) research questions about how animal colours are made, how they are seen, and what colours do for the animals that bear them. In their talk on August 23rd they will discuss how biologists work to understand the colouration of animals and how we might work together with artists in projects. Bookings essential at https://www.trybooking.com/RLLR
Webinar 2017 - Colour Changes in Art with Dr Kristin deGhetaldi
The CSA NSW Division will be hosting a world-wide webinar with paintings conservator Dr Kristin deGhetaldi (University of Delaware, USA), looking at paints and dyes from an analytical and historical perspective. The event has been scheduled for a Sunday at 12 noon AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time). This webinar is free of but registrants must book with their email address by Friday August 4 at https://www.trybooking.com/RFPT.
July 2017 - Colours of New England with Virginia Handel
Our July 2017 event will be an opportunity for us to celebrate the 4th of July down under with a presentation on "Colours of New England" by CSA NSW Secretary Virginia Handel. Our event is being generously hosted by Eliza Snowsill, Director, at Cromwell's showroom in Thurlow Street, Redfern. Bookings can be made at https://www.trybooking.com/QSJB
June 2017 - Vivid Light artists Aly and Balthasar Indermühle
Our June 6 event will be a very special celebration of Vivid Sydney 2017. The evening will begin with a talk and slide presentation by prolific light installation artist Aly Indermühle and her husband, astrophysicist Dr Balthasar Indermühle, who have collaborated on two of this year’s Vivid Light installations. The Indermühles will then guide us on a tour of their works and other highlights of the festival around Circular Quay and the Opera House. Bookings essential on https://www.trybooking.com/QEUD
May 2017 - CSA 30th Anniversary Dinner
CSA National President, Judith Briggs organized a fabulous dinner in celebration of 30 years of colorful adventures and exchanges to do with the art, design and science of colour! Thank you to all who attended and to the attentive staff of 'Moorish Blue' restaurant, Milson's Point!
April 2016 - Studio of Brian Dunlop exhibition
Our April 2017 event will be an afternoon tour of some Paddington art galleries on Saturday April 22, beginning with the Studio of Brian Dunlop exhibition at Australian Galleries. This exhibition features paintings and prints by major Australian painter Brian Dunlop (1938 – 2009) alongside outstanding works by Dunlop’s former students Jenny and Francis Giacco and his daughter Sophie Dunlop. Francis Giacco will talk for the Colour Society at 2.00 pm. This is a FREE event but pre-booking is essential at https://www.trybooking.com/PSGS
March 2017 - International Colour Day event "Visual Dictionary of Colour"
Our March event celebrating ICD 2017 is the opening of an exhibit of works by students in the Visual Dictionary of Colour workshop conducted by Dr David Briggs in Drawing Week 2017 at the National Art School. The student works will be supplemented by some recently published digital illustrations from Dr Briggs' website The Dimensions of Colour and some historical colour studies by former students at NAS. An introductory presentation, Talking about Colour, will be given at 6.30 pm. Bookings: http://eepurl.com/cE9rc9.
February 2017 - Barangaroo South walking tour
Our first event for 2017 will be a walking tour of Barangaroo South organised by our past President, Glen Bowden. Following completion of the walk in the Barangaroo South Precinct at 5.00pm there will be the opportunity to partake of refreshments and then walk to Barangaroo Reserve towards Walsh Bay.
November 2016 - End-of-year event with Natalie O'Connor
Resident Artist for Winsor & Newton, Natalie O’Connor will take us on a journey from historical artists’ colours through to the latest innovations of colourmakers today while we enjoy a delicious feast of finger food. This is a rare opportunity to visit the Alladin’s caves that are the showrooms of Jasco Pty Ltd, the Australian distributor of Winsor & Newton, Liquitex, Conté à Paris and many other major brands of artist’s materials. http://eepurl.com/cozh4b
September 2016 - Children's Book Illustrator Freya Blackwood
Since 2003 Freya Blackwood has illustrated more than 25 children’s books ranging from the whimsical to the deeply moving, each with a distinctive colour palette and visual style. In 2010 she became one of the very few Australians to be awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for best-illustrated children's book published in the U.K, for her part in the sublime Harry & Hopper. This rare opportunity to see Freya showing and discussing her work in Sydney will be preceded by our NSW state AGM. http://eepurl.com/cfjsDz
August 2016 - Artist Jocelyn Maughan
Jocelyn Maughan is a prolific and multidisciplinary artist whose portraits, watercolours, prints and drawings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, the latest being her retrospective An Artist Survey at the Gosford Regional Gallery. During our visit Jocelyn will be on hand to talk about her thoughts on colour and composition and her early training in colour as a Diploma student at the National Art School in the 1950's.
July 2016 - Paintings conservator Simon Ives
For our July 2016 event painting conservator Simon Ives will look at the historical development of the pigments and mediums used in painting and some of the analytical techniques used by conservators to investigate those materials. Using a ground-breaking research project carried out on a poorly documented and somewhat mysterious 16th-century portrait of Henry VIII as a starting point, his talk will outline what the research reveals about the changing way in which colour has been used in painting since the Renaissance.
June 2016 - Sonia van de Haar and Rachael Devine at the Resene Paints showroom
Our June 2016 event will be a presentation at the Resene showroom in Artarmon by Sonia van de Haar, creative director and founder of the design practice Lymesmith, and Rachael Devine, Project Services and Trade Manager for NSW of Resene. Sonia will discuss the work of Lymesmith in a talk entitled Chromophobia: Why Architects are Afraid of Colour, after which Rachael will bring us up to date on the newest Resene Paints colour collection.
May 2016 - Film and Television Colourist Angela Cerasi
Our May 2016 event will be a presentation by freelance film and television colourist Angela Cerasi on May 18. Angela will discuss the role of the film and television colourist with examples from her work, and will include an explanation of colour grading and the capabilities of colour grading software. Examples of Angela's work can be seen on her website (http://angelacerasi.com.au/tagged/portfolio) and on her entry on Imdb.
April 2016 - Darlinghurst Gallery Walk
Our April event was a walking tour of twelve galleries in the Darlinghurst area on Saturday April 16 from 11 am to 4 pm. On that day a remarkable number of exhibitions of interest to colour lovers coincided, including shows by well-established abstract painters like David Serisier, Julie Harris, John Bartley, Denise Green, Peter De Lorenzo and William Wright, by NAS alumnus and former member of Mental as Anything Peter O’Doherty, and by artists near the beginning of their careers including recent NAS graduates Joanne Makas and Rachael McCallum, as well as major exhibitions at NAS and UNSWAD.
March 2016 - Classics and Curiosities of Colour
To (almost) coincide with International Colour Day, the NSW Division will be hosting Classics and Curiosities of Colour, an exhibit of important and unusual works marking the history of our understanding and use of colour, on March 22 at the National Art School, Sydney. There will be two sessions from 6.30 to 7.30 pm and 7.30 to 8.30 pm. Tickets for either session are $30 non-members/$20 members/$15 students, including light refreshments.
November, 2015: CSA NSW end-of-year celebration at The Julian Ashton Art School studio, Georges Heights
The end of year CSA celebration at the Georges Heights studio of the Julian Ashton Art School, in the spectacular coastal setting of Middle Head Park near Mosman, with presentations by outstanding painters and teachers Jo Lemon and Jessica Ashton.
October, 2015: Colour in Contemporary Workplace Design by Carol-Ann Pickvance.
Our October 2015 event will be a tour of the HASSELL office at Walsh Bay, followed by a presentation by HASSELL Senior Associate Carol-Ann Pickvance.
Wednesday 21st October, 6.30pm for light refreshments followed by tour and presentation 7.00 pm - 8.00 pm. HASSELL office, Level 2, Pier 8/9, 23 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney.
September, 2015: Thoughts on Painting and Vision with Tim Miller
For our September 2015 event artist Tim Miller will talk about his long interest in colour and vision in relation to his work as a landscape painter.
Wednesday 9th September, 6.30pm for 7.00pm, Albion Centre, Ground Floor, 349 Crown Street (corner of Albion and Crown Streets), Surry Hills.
August, 2015: Colour Psychology with Zena O'Connor
Our August 2015 event will be Colour Psychology: A Review of its Origins and Evidence, a lecture by Dr Zena O'Connor.
Wednesday 12th August, 6.30pm for 7.00pm, Albion Centre, Ground Floor, 349 Crown Street (corner of Albion and Crown Streets), Surry Hills. Booking essential.
July, 2015: Colour Theory with David Briggs
For our July event NSW chairperson Dr David Briggs presented a live webinar on the topic of Traditional and Modern Colour Theory, based on two recently added pages of his website The Dimensions of Colour:
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/001.php
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/002.php
The presentation is now available on on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4enFjTGVTnc
June, 2015: Navigating Colour Space with Jean Pretorius
Dr Jean Pretorius (Ph. D., Cambridge) presented an illustrated lecture on some brilliant computer programs that can be used to illustrate colour mixing in artists’ paints as three-dimensional paths through colour space, and, in the case of his own program, PaintTutor, to calculate quantities of actual paints needed to match colours selected from image files.
For further information please see:
http://eepurl.com/boAON9
International Colour Day 2015
International Colour Day (21st of March) was celebrated in NSW at the Resene Paints, Artarmon. We worked through a colourful alphabet to discover 'what's in a colour name!'International Colour Day NSW 2015
Kerrie Brown Design Event