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How To Get Involved

To express interest in joining the events mailing list and for those with Membership enquiries. Please email us at csa.nec.pres@gmail.com

Prospective new members in South Australia and Tasmania will become part of the expanded Victoria Division to be known as Southern Australia Division. We hope very much to restart active Divisions in South Australia and Tasmania once membership numbers allow.

Upcoming Events

    • 25 Jul 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Zoom
    • 44
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    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.

    • 31 Dec 2025
    • 12:00 PM
    • Online
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Past Events

10 Dec 2024 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2024
8 Jun 2024 From Screen to Print: Mastering Colour Fidelity in Digital Media by Dr Les Walkling
18 Dec 2023 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2023
12 Oct 2023 CSA National Conference 2023 Colour Sense and Sensibility
26 Mar 2023 International Colour Day 2023 event: "Controlled Palettes in Painting" with Tristan Elwell (USA)
5 Feb 2023 "Colour in Scientific Imaging and Space” with Dr Balthasar Indermühle
17 Dec 2022 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2022
20 Nov 2022 "Making Sense of Ancient Greek Colour Names" with Dr Peter Gainsford (NZ)
2 Oct 2022 CSA NSW webinar: "A Colourful Life" with Linda Jackson AO
24 Jul 2022 CSA July Webinar: "Teaching (and Learning) Color Theory on Tiktok" with Peter Donahue (USA)
29 May 2022 "Painting Light and Form" with Todd Casey (USA)
20 Mar 2022 CSA International Colour Day 2022 event: Progress in Colour Education
5 Dec 2021 CSA December webinar: "Colours of Light: An Emotive Exploration" with designer Ilan El (Melbourne)
29 Nov 2021 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2021
15 Aug 2021 CSA NSW August webinar: "Light on Painting" with Adrien Lucca (Belgium)
3 Jul 2021 CSA NSW July webinar: "Colour and Composition in Hilma af Klint's Swan Series" with Kristen Tivey
22 Apr 2021 CSA NSW April webinar: "Scandinavian Colour Design of Today" with Berit Bergstrom (Berit Colour Talks, Sweden)
21 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" SUNDAY ONLY
20 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" SATURDAY ONLY
19 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" FRIDAY ONLY
19 Mar 2021 CSA National Conference "Colour Connections" (video registration)
20 Dec 2020 CSA National AGM 2020
14 Jun 2020 CSA NSW June webinar: Paints and Paint Making with Michael Harding
28 Nov 2019 CSA National and NSW Division 2019 AGMS
16 Apr 2016 CSA Southern Division event: Site Visit - Australia Garden Cranbourne

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