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Upcoming Events

    • 25 Jun 2025
    • 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Zoom

    .We're again grateful to Nick Harkness and our "Canberra Colour Club" for initiating another very special event, a presentation by Professor of Architectural Practice Fiona McLachlan of the University of Edinburgh. The webinar will be hosted by Sonia van de Haar.of Lymesmith. Registration will open at the start of June.

    Antoni Malinowski painting at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, London (F. McLachlan)

    The influence of applied colour in architecture extends well beyond surface decoration. It affects the character of adjacent space, can convey meaning, tap into individual and shared experience, and alter our perception. The talk will focus on significant themes from the book publication Colour Beyond the Surface: Art in Architecture which considers the contribution of embedded artwork to architecture, with a particular focus on colour and the dynamic relationships between light, form, material surface, space and movement.

    ‘A painting made on canvas in a studio setting and conventionally exhibited within a gallery space invites the audience to study its composition, meaning and production…the object of a fixed gaze. An artwork embedded in an architectural surface will become an integral part of the space, and glimpsed in the peripheral vision of an often inattentive, moving audience.’

    How might the colour and material surface of an artwork, and the pictorial space within the artwork affect the bodily experience of architecture?

    ‘The way which we ‘see’ colour as being inherently part of the material surface is deceptive. Colour is often considered to be somehow embedded within a material, yet once the relationship between colour and light is grasped, the fluctuations in the appearance of colour with changing light conditions are readily understood.’

    The book draws on historical examples from Karl Friedrich Schinkel to Carlos Raul Villaneuva and Gio Ponti and on a series of interviews with contemporary artists and architects. The different knowledges, practices and understanding between artists and architects makes colour a fertile ground for collaboration. The potential to create resonance, sensorially and intellectually, emerges as a common thread, whether artists are working independently making work for architectural settings or in collaboration with architects,

    ‘perhaps the best examples of surface applied art in architecture are those where there is a resolution that has a resonance, but also an element of dissonance that achieves a productive tension’.

    In the best cases, the art and architecture become inseparable from the atmosphere and memory of the space for which it is made.


    Fiona McLachlan is Professor of Architectural Practice at the University of Edinburgh. She teaches architectural design is a past Head of the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA). Her practice– E & F McLachlan Architects– specialized in social housing and residential projects over a thirty-year period and has been included in international exhibitions and publications. She has authored three books: Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette, (Routledge, 2012)– which was stimulated by her work in practice– a co-author of Colour Strategies in Architecture, (Schwabe Verlag, 2015) and author of Colour Beyond the Surface: Art in Architecture (Lund Humphries, 2022).


    Mark Titchner Not For Self But For All, London (woolver.com)

    Registration

    Successful registrants will be notified by reply email and will be sent the Zoom link and instructions shortly before the event. To receive this email with the Zoom link, you must register by the deadline of midnight AEST on Tuesdayday June 24th but please note that this event may be booked out in advance of that date. If you're unable to attend live, please do not register; a recording will be posted on the Colour Society of Australia YouTube account shortly after the webinar and will remain available to the public there for two weeks.

    We ask our members and friends to please pass on news of this event to their contacts by sharing our Facebook/ Instagram/ LinkedIn posts or the following link: https://coloursociety.org.au/event-6139542

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

14 May 2025 Colour choices: achieving a desired effect in colour schemes and design (Berit Bergstrom, Sweden)
13 Apr 2025 Alteronce Gumby's "Color": a screening and Q&A with the artist hosted by Laura Berman (USA)
21 Mar 2025 International Colour Day Forum: The XRF Revolution in Painting Analysis and Painting Conservation
9 Mar 2025 "Pursuit of Happiness" exhibition, Ngununggula Gallery, Bowral
10 Dec 2024 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2024
10 Dec 2024 CSA NSW Division Annual General Meeting 2024
26 Nov 2024 Fifteen years of spinning colour wheels and analysing dragons: Alexandra Loske's work on colour
10 Oct 2024 "The Book of Colours (Das Farbenbuch)" with Dr Juraj Lipscher
21 Sep 2024 "The Art and Science of Crafting Successful Hair Colour" with Julie Kleine
11 Aug 2024 "Every Colour" (Articulate project space exhibition & events) and upcoming NSW Division webinars
8 Jun 2024 From Screen to Print: Mastering Colour Fidelity in Digital Media by Dr Les Walkling
13 Apr 2024 "Conversations on Colour and Place" with Dr Natalie O'Connor and Jo Mellor
22 Mar 2024 International Colour Day 2024 event: Phyllis Shillito and her Colour Curriculum 1945-79 (ONLINE ATTENDANCE)
20 Mar 2024 International Colour Day 2024 event: Phyllis Shillito and her Colour Curriculum 1945-79
17 Feb 2024 "Dynamic Colour in Digital Art" with Steve Forster (Long Island Academy of Fine Art, USA)
18 Dec 2023 CSA national Annual General Meeting 2023
18 Dec 2023 CSA NSW Division Annual General Meeting 2023
3 Dec 2023 Jocelyn Maughan on Colour
12 Oct 2023 CSA National Conference 2023 Colour Sense and Sensibility
17 Sep 2023 "Dyes Ancient and Modern" with Dr Mark Liu
27 Aug 2023 "The Colour Circle at the Bauhaus and Beyond" with Michael Mentler
30 Jul 2023 Creating Colour 2: A Practical Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Painters with Dr Jean Pretorius
1 Jul 2023 CSA NSW gallery visit: Francis Giacco (Australian Galleries) and Kerry McInnis (Wagner Contemporary)
25 Jun 2023 "Objectivity in colour experience and the elusiveness of aesthetic description" with Dr Joaquim Marcelino Santos
25 Apr 2023 "Creating Colour 1: Paint Making" with Ulysses Jackson (Golden Artist Colors Inc., USA)
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
17 Dec 2022 CSA NSW Division 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)
18 Jun 2022 CSA NSW June event: Darlinghurst Gallery Walk
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
29 Nov 2021 CSA NSW Division Annual General Meeting 2021
31 Oct 2021 CSA NSW October webinar: "A Conversation about Colour" with sculptor and painter Ron Robertson-Swann, hosted by artist Aly Indermühle
25 Sep 2021 CSA NSW September webinar "Concerning the Shape of Color" with Marcia R. Cohen, Professor Emerita SCAD Atlanta (USA)
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" (OVERVIEW PAGE)
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
6 Dec 2020 CSA NSW December webinar: "The Paint Detective" with architectural paint researcher and consultant Patrick Baty (UK)
29 Nov 2020 CSA NSW Division 2020 AGM
27 Sep 2020 CSA NSW September Webinar: "Colour Notes" with abstract painter Dr Liz Coats
22 Jul 2020 CSA NSW July Webinar: A Colour Journey Through the Loire Valley with Virginia Handel
14 Jun 2020 CSA NSW June webinar: Paints and Paint Making with Michael Harding
22 Mar 2020 ICD 2020 event: The Routledge Philosophy of Colour Project
19 Feb 2020 Peter Tasker on "Heritage to Contemporary Projects with Murobond Paints"
4 Dec 2019 CSA NSW End-of-Year Event with Karen Haller on The Little Book of Colour.
28 Nov 2019 CSA National and NSW Division 2019 AGMS
3 Nov 2019 CSA NSW event: Encaustic Painting: History and Contemporary Perspectives with Randal Arvilla
11 Aug 2019 CSA NSW event: Aristotle and the Philosophy of Colour Perception with Professor Mohan Matthen
4 Jul 2019 CSA NSW event: Affect, Motion and Light with Christopher Moulder
29 May 2019 CSA NSW event: Leonardo da Vinci on Colour, Light and Vision with Dr David Briggs
23 Mar 2019 CSA NSW event: International Colour Day with Resene Paints
6 Mar 2019 CSA NSW Sydney Design Festival event, Unlocking the Structure of Colour with David Briggs & Annamaria di Cara
12 Feb 2019 CSA NSW event: Newton's red Hering? with Professor Paul Martin

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