Please join us for our July webinar, in which we'll look back over the history and activities of the Colour Society of Australia, and look forward to the future including our national conference in Sydney on October 31 to November 2, and opportunities for members old and new to become more involved in the Society's efforts.
AIC Interim Meeting, Sydney 1991
Part One: Looking Back (30 minutes)
In Part One, CSA founding member Nick Harkness will talk about the history of the Society at a national level and its activities, including fourteen national conferences and two International Colour Association (AIC) meetings, the 1991 Interim Meeting, held just a few years after the formation of the society, and the huge 2009 Congress in Sydney. Then WA Division Chair and national President Mike Dixon and NSW Division Chair and national Vice President David Briggs will review the incredible range of events held by their Divisions in recent years, both to mark these achievements and to provide food for thought for coming events.
Part Two: The National Conference, Colour Matrix Sydney 2025 (15 minutes)
In Part Two, the NSW Division committee will give a preview of the speakers, presentations and hands-on activities lined up for the CSA national conference in Sydney on October 31 to November 2. We have a full program of some twenty five presentations in sessions on Colour Science (5), Colour Education (5), Environmental Colour Design (5), Colour Naming (2) and Colour in Art and Art Materials (8), as well as hands-on activities spanning most of these areas. Registration for the conference will open on the night.
CSA NSW Division events from 2022
Part Three: The Future (15 minutes)
The work of the Society can only continue if our members keep stepping up to become involved at a regional and national level. In Part Three Nick, Mike and David will discuss ideas for the future of the Society including how we continue to interact with a membership scattered over a continent the size of Australia and beyond. An exciting recent development has been the formation of a "Colour Club" by our members iin Canberra, initially for the purpose of informal, in-person gatherings but in the last year initiating five excellent installments of our webinar series. It would be great to see this idea being taken up elsewhere! We'll finish by opening up the meeting to all attendees to hear your ideas and to answer any questions you might have about how you can become more involved in the Society.
The Speakers
Nick Harkness has worked in instrumental appearance and colour measurement since 1981, working with BYK Gardner (Germany), CyberChrome (USA), Konica Minolta (Japan), NCS AB (Sweden) and VeriVide (UK). A lifetime Honorary member of the Colour Society of Australia, Nick was also a member of the AIC Executive Committee from 2005 as an Ordinary Member (Chair of AIC Congress (2009), Secretary Treasurer (2010 – 2013), Vice-President (2014 - 2015), and President (2016 - 2017). Colour training projects include the online Colour Made Simple, designed to teach the fundamentals of visual colour assessment and instrumental colour measurement for Industry, Design and Research, The Measurement of Light and Colour (School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, 2000 – 2006), and the Swedish Colour Institute’s Natural Colour System. He has presented oral and poster papers at meetings of the Association Internationale de la Couleur, Australian Corrosion Association, Colour Society Australia and Surface Coatings Association Australia.
Michael Dixon
has been for many years at the coal face of new product development over a wide range applications, from medical products to agricultural machinery, from technical electronics to exhibition design, and much more. And "designing" has evolved from producing hard copy drawings to now complex three- dimensional modelling on computers. Mike is President and WA Division Chair of the Colour Society of Australia, a Life Fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and a Life Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia
Dr David Briggs is a classically-trained painter, art educator and researcher who has taught colour and painting classes since 1996 and has created online resources on colour for painters since the launch of his website The Dimensions of Colour in 2007. Many of his publications and presentations, which include a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour (2020), can be found on academia.edu. David is Past President, Vice President, and NSW Division Chair of the Colour Society of Australia, Co-Chair of the International Colour Association (AIC) Study Group on Arts and Design and a committee member of the AIC/ISCC Colour Literacy Project and CIE Technical Committee 1-99. David has been teaching National Art School Short Courses since 2011, before which he wrote and presented a NAS Art History and Theory undergraduate elective on the history of colour theory and practice.
Registration
Registration is essential by midnight AEST on July 24 and is now open for CSA members and nonmembers. Limit: 100 registrants. Successful registrants will be notified by reply email and will be sent the Zoom link and instructions shortly before the event.
