Colour Society Of Australia

  

Colour Matrix Sydney 2025 Sunday session

  • 2 Nov 2025
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • History House, Macquarie St, Sydney
  • 39

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Schedule

SUNDAY NOV 2

COLOUR NAMING

COLOUR IN ART AND ART MATERIALS

9:00 – 9:20

Doors open at 9:00 am

9:20 – 9:30

Speaker Introductions

9:30 – 10:00 on Zoom

Verena M. Schindler - Kawésqar Colour Names and Associations

10:00 – 10:30

Madeleine Snook - Conceptual vs Texture-Dependent Colour Terms in British English, Korean, and Scottish Gaelic

10:30 – 11:00

Diana Young - Colours in Australian Indigenous Contemporary Art

11:00 – 11:10

Verena Schindler - Diamant II – A Sculpture by Sanford Wurmfeld

11:10 - 11:30

MORNING TEA

11:30 – 12:00

Michelle Hiscock - Thomas Bardwell and Colour in 18th Century Portrait Painting

12:00 – 12:30

Natalie O'Connor - The Elaboratory of Colour

12:30 – 1:00

Questions and Discussion

1:00 – 2:00

LUNCH

2:00 – 2:30

Vladi Rosolova - Light, Colour, and Colour Constancy in Painted Art

2:30 – 3:00

Tim Miller - Painting and the Sensation of Seeing Colour

3:00 – 3:10

Leone Burridge and David Briggs - Exploring Monocular Rivalry in Painting

3:10 – 3:30

AFTERNOON TEA

3:30 – 4:00

Steven Patterson - Beyond the Palette: Sustainability Challenges and Solutions in Artists’ Materials

4:00 – 4:30 on Zoom

Enikö Majoros - Artistpigments.org - From Database to Multidisciplinary Exploration of Color

4:30 – 4:55

Questions and Discussion

Schedule subject to change without notice.


Pricing

All prices include access to all recordings

Full price non-member

Full price member


Concession non-member

Concession member

Sunday in-person attendance including light lunch & teas

110

80

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60

Sunday in-person attendance including light lunch & teas plus whole-conference online access

150

120

115

100





Concession rate applies to pensioners, full-time students, unemployed and similar low-income earners.

Speakers

Verena M. Schindler is an Art and Architectural Historian, Colour Researcher, Chair of the Study Group on Environmental Colour Design of the International Colour Association, and represents the Swiss Colour Association “pro colore”. She also studied Spanish literature and linguistics in Zürich and Madrid. Affiliated with Atelier Cler Études Chromatiques in Paris for many years, she has worked at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, and the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, and also as an art teacher. She has researched, published and edited extensively in colour in art, architecture, urban planning and design. She is a member of several editorial boards and an Academic Editor of Color Research and Application

Madeleine Snook was born and raised in Gosford, NSW Australia and has since lived in France, Scotland, Canada, South Korea, England, and Spain. She graduated with First Class Honours in Linguistics from the University of Sydney in 2018 with her research thesis Animal-Directed Speech in Scottish Gaelic and English, and as of July 2022 graduated from the University of Cambridge (Lucy Cavendish College) with a Master’s degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics with her research thesis Conceptual vs Texture-Dependent Colour Terms in British English, Korean, and Scottish Gaelic: a comparative analysis of colour category application, scope, and foci. Snook’s primary areas of research interest are colour term categories, Korean, Celtic languages and literature, semantics, animal-human communication, and animal cognition. 

Dr Diana Young

is Reader in Museum Anthropology and Material Culture at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. As a scholar, a curator, and as Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum (2009-2017), Diana has worked widely with Indigenous artists, and Indigenous cultural property. She has published widely on the socialness of colours. Her interest in colours was reinforced by her first career experienced in the blue-grey universe of UK commercial architecture.

Michelle Hiscock trained at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, graduating in 1991, and has lived in Japan and France and travelled widely in Europe and especially Italy. She has held solo exhibitions since 1992 in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, has been a finalist in several art prizes, and has taken part in group shows in Australia, London and Switzerland. She is represented by Australian Galleries in Sydney, and her work is represented in private and corporate collections. Michelle is an expert in the history of painting techniques, materials and methods. and is a painting lecturer at the National Art School and has given many talks and demonstrations at the Art Gallery of NSW. 

Natalie O’Connor is an artist, researcher, and educator whose experience in the international colour manufacturing industry has heavily influenced her practice. She holds a Bachelor of Education, a Master's degree, and a PhD at UNSW for her thesis, The Nature of Redness- A Practice-Based Research into Red Pigments to Offer a New Understanding of Material Colour. Her practice and thesis are concerned with the permanency and fragility of colour and the technical innovations of the artist’s palette that result from a collaborative dialogue between artists and scientists since the early nineteenth century. She engages deeply with the colour red, investigating its materiality and revealing its inherent qualities of colour. O’Connor’s artwork, The Gol Gol Layer Colour Observations, has developed over the last ten years and primarily consists of a series of experimental observations of a unique area in remote Australia. 

Vladi Rosolova is driven by her passion for light and its’ limitless power to transform space and influence our experience of the world around us. With more than ten years experience working as a lighting designer for leading Sydney (AUS) and London (UK) lighting consultancies and over six years of experience working in architectural offices in both the Czech Republic and Australia, Vladi has deep understanding of creation of architectural spaces, lighting concepts and principles as well as required technical knowledge.

Tim Miller has been an exhibiting artist for 45 years, and has pieces in a number of major collections including Parliament House and the National Museum. Predominantly a landscape painter, Tim has a deep interest in the science of colour vision in relation to painting. In 2009 he set himself the extraordinary task of drawing every sundown for a full year, producing each study directly from observation in the fading light. Tim's also paints large-scale oil paintings, including a series showing parts of the Central West as they would have been in 1810, for the exhibition Macquarie 1810-2010 at Parliament House in Sydney. Tim had a solo exhibition at the Orange Regional Gallery in 2015.

Steven Patterson is CEO of Derivan Pty Ltd. As a second-generation paint maker, Steven has inherited a legacy of expertise in the formulation and production of high-quality artist acrylics. and has been immersed in the science and art of color since childhood. Over the decades, he witnessed Derivan's evolution from its modest origins in a Sydney inner-city stable in the early 1960s to becoming a multinational enterprise with manufacturing facilities spanning three continents, dedicated to producing premium artist acrylics and mediums. Steven's leadership approach is defined by environmentally sustainable innovations, a commitment to corporate social responsibility, and active community engagement. His passion for color chemistry fuels his continual exploration of new pigments and their potential applications in advancing the field of artist materials.





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