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Upcoming Events

    • 20 Mar 2024
    • 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Carolyn Simpson Library, Sydney, and online


    Student exercise painted in gouache by Eva Fay at the Shillito Design School, 1976/77.

    We're proud to announce that our International Colour Day 2024 event will be a hybrid in-person and online event held jointly with Museums of History NSW and centred on the colour curriculum of pioneering Sydney-based colour and design educator Phyllis Shillito (1895-1980)

    In-person attendees at the Caroline Simpson Library (behind the Sydney Mint,10 Macquarie St, Sydney) will examine the impressive collection of student exercises and notes created by Eva Fay FDIA as a student at the Shillito Design School in the late 1970's, and  donated in January this year to the Library, alongside earlier Shillito portfolios from the CSL and private collections. In addition, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, three presentations will establish the context of Shillito's teaching of colour, with some time for questions and comments from the live audience. Dr Catriona Quinn will examine the broader context of Phyllis Shillito’s impact on technical education and its relationship to the dynamic development of the Australian interior design profession. Jocelyn Maughan OAM, who studied colour directly under Shillito at East Sydney Technical College in 1956, will share her recollections of Shillito and give a critical assessment of Shillito’s approach to colour. And Dr David Briggs will discuss research he conducted jointly with Eva Fay that documented the direct influence of theorists Munsell, Ostwald, Maitland Graves, and especially H.B. Carpenter on Shillito's colour curriculum. Online attendees will be able to watch the three presentations and hear the discussion with the live audience via Zoom.

    REGISTRATION for In-Person and Online Attendance

    Registration for in-person attendance at the Caroline Simpson Library must be completed via the Museums of History NSW website at https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/events/phyllis-shillito-and-her-colour-curriculum-1945-79/

    Registration to watch the presentations and discussion on Zoom must be completed at  https://coloursociety.org.au/event-5595856



    Eva Fay, Catriona Quinn, Jocelyn Maughan and David Briggs

    Eva Fay FDIA taught colour and design in Sydney from 1979 at various TAFE colleges, the University of Sydney, UTS, and the School of Colour and Design, which she co-founded in 1983. She is a founding member of the Colour Society of Australia and was awarded Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia in 2012. In 1976 to 1978 she completed the three-year fulltime course in colour and design the Shillito Design School, which included two years of colour exercises and projects taught by assistant teachers Peter Travis OAM, Roslyn Kean, Gary Shinfield and Jean Savage. In 2021 she described and illustrated these exercises and projects in her book Shillito Design School, Australian Colour Education in the ‘70s, and this year she donated her collection of notes and exercises from the course to the Caroline Simpson Library.

    Dr Catriona Quinn teaches design history and theory at UNSW Sydney, where her prize-winning PhD on the role of the client in interior design was awarded in 2021. At Sydney Living Museums, she curated the Rose Seidler House, the Caroline Simpson Library and, in 1993, the first historical exhibition on an Australian interior designer. Recent publications include chapters in The Other Moderns: Sydney’s Forgotten European Design Legacy (2017), Margo Lewers: No Limits (2022) and for Fabrications, the first literature review on postwar Australian interior design (2024). Catriona is active in the international field, presenting at conferences and as a committee member for the Society of Architectural Historians' Historic Interiors Group.

    Jocelyn Maughan OAM studied at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School, Sydney) from 1954 to 1958, graduating with a Diploma of Fine Art with honours, specialising in painting. During this period, she studied colour under painters including James (Jimmy) Cook, and in 1956 as an evening student under head of design Phyllis Shillito. Her teaching career included 32 years at Meadowbank College of TAFE, where she established a Fine Arts section and became the inaugural Head of the Art School in 1966. Jocelyn’s painting career spans more than six decades and she remains very active as an artist at age 85. She is an exhibiting member of the Australian Watercolour Institute and a Fellow of Royal Art Society and was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday 2018 Honours List with an Order of Australia Medal ‘for service to the visual arts, and to education’.

    Dr David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney. His publications include a chapter on colour spaces in the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour, (2020) and a two-part paper on the elements of colour in the Journal of the International Colour Association (2023). He also has two outreach websites, The Dimensions of Colour and Colour Online. David is Past President, Vice President, and NSW Divisional Chair of the Colour Society of Australia, Co-Chair of the AIC Study Group on Arts and Design and is a committee member of the AIC/ ISCC Colour Literacy Project. In 2022 he coauthored with Eva Fay a study of Shillito student material that was published in the Proceedings of the AIC 2022 Conference in Toronto, Canada.

    Please note that our event is on the day before International Colour Day, which falls annually on March 21.

    • 20 Mar 2024
    • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Zoom
    • 9
    Register


    Student exercise painted in gouache at the Shillito Design School, 1976/77, by Eva Fay.

    We're proud to announce that our International Colour Day 2024 event will be a hybrid in-person and online event held jointly with Museums of History NSW and centred on the colour teaching of pioneering Sydney-based colour and design educator Phyllis Shillito (1895-1980) from the 1940's to the 1970's. 

    In-person attendees at the Caroline Simpson Library (behind the Sydney Mint,10 Macquarie St, Sydney) will examine the impressive collection of student exercises and notes created by Eva Fay FDIA as a student at the Shillito Design School in the late 1970's, and  donated in January thios year to the Library, alongside earlier Shillito portfolios from the CSL and private collections. In addition, three presentations will establish the context of Shillito's teaching of colour, with time for questions and comments from the live audience. Dr Catriona Quinn will examine the broader context of Phyllis Shillito’s impact on technical education and its relationship to the dynamic development of the Australian interior design profession. Jocelyn Maughan OAM, who studied colour directly under Shillito at East Sydney Technical College in 1956, will share her recollections of Shillito and give a critical assessment of Shillito’s approach to colour. And Dr David Briggs will present research he conducted with Eva Fay that documented the direct influence of theorists Munsell, Ostwald, Maitland Graves, and especially H.B. Carpenter on Shillito's colour curriculum. Online attendees will be able to listen in to the three presentations and discussion via Zoom.


    Eva Fay, Catriona Quinn, Jocelyn Maughan and David Briggs

    Eva Fay FDIA taught colour and design in Sydney from 1979 at various TAFE colleges, the University of Sydney, UTS, and the School of Colour and Design, which she co-founded in 1983. She is a founding member of the Colour Society of Australia and was awarded Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia in 2012. In 1976 to 1978 she completed the three-year fulltime course in colour and design the Shillito Design School, which included two years of colour exercises and projects taught by assistant teachers Peter Travis OAM, Roslyn Kean, Gary Shinfield and Jean Savage. In 2021 she described and illustrated these exercises and projects in her book Shillito Design School, Australian Colour Education in the ‘70s, and this year she donated her collection of notes and exercises from the course to the Caroline Simpson Library.

    Dr Catriona Quinn teaches design history and theory at UNSW Sydney, where her prize-winning PhD on the role of the client in interior design was awarded in 2021. At Sydney Living Museums, she curated the Rose Seidler House, the Caroline Simpson Library and, in 1993, the first historical exhibition on an Australian interior designer. Recent publications include chapters in The Other Moderns: Sydney’s Forgotten European Design Legacy (2017), Margo Lewers: No Limits (2022) and for Fabrications, the first literature review on postwar Australian interior design (2024). Catriona is active in the international field, presenting at conferences and as a committee member for the Society of Architectural Historians' Historic Interiors Group.

    Jocelyn Maughan OAM studied at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School, Sydney) from 1954 to 1958, graduating with a Diploma of Fine Art with honours, specialising in painting. During this period, she studied colour under painters including James (Jimmy) Cook, and in 1956 as an evening student under head of design Phyllis Shillito. Her teaching career included 32 years at Meadowbank College of TAFE, where she established a Fine Arts section and became the inaugural Head of the Art School in 1966. Jocelyn’s painting career spans more than six decades and she remains very active as an artist at age 85. She is an exhibiting member of the Australian Watercolour Institute and a Fellow of Royal Art Society and was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday 2018 Honours List with an Order of Australia Medal ‘for service to the visual arts, and to education’.

    Dr David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney. His publications include a chapter on colour spaces in the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour, (2020) and a two-part paper on the elements of colour in the Journal of the International Colour Association (2023). He also has two outreach websites, The Dimensions of Colour and Colour Online. David is Past President, Vice President, and NSW Divisional Chair of the Colour Society of Australia, Co-Chair of the AIC Study Group on Arts and Design and is a committee member of the AIC/ ISCC Colour Literacy Project. In 2022 he coauthored with Eva Fay a study of Shillito student material that was published in the Proceedings of the AIC 2022 Conference.

    Registration for In-Person and Online Attendance

    Registration for in-person attendance at the Caroline Simpson Library must be completed via the Museums of History NSW website at https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/events/phyllis-shillito-and-her-colour-curriculum-1945-79/

    Use the registration link on this page to watch the presentations and audience discussion on Zoom. Registration for online attendance opens on February 24 for CSA and MHNSW members, and on March 2 for nonmembers. Online attendance is free but registration is essential and limited to 100 participants worldwide, so early registration is advised. Successful registrants will be notified by reply email and will be sent the Zoom link and instructions to join the webinar the day before the event. To receive this email with the Zoom link, you must register by the deadline of midnight AEDT on by March 18.

    If you are unable to watch the presentations live, please do not register, as a recording of the presentations will be made permanently accessible on the CSA YouTube Channel, like all of our International Colour Day events.

    Please note that our event is on the day before International Colour Day, which falls annually on March 21.


    • 23 Mar 2024
    • 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM (AWST)
    • The Grove Library meeting room, corner of Stirling Hwy & Leake St, Peppermint Grove
    Register

    Financial members of our Western Australian Division are invited to a celebration of International Colour Day 2024 at The Grove Library meeting room on Saturday, 23 March 2024, 10.30am - 4pm. The event will include a presentation and workshop with Nancy Ballesteros, followed by the Annual General Meeting of the Division and a planning meeting to set the agenda of meetings for the rest of the year and into 2025This free event includes a catered lunch. For catering purposes, would you please email Ruth Marrion at apmrm@aapt.net.au to record your attendance, by Thursday, 21st March.

    If you are not yet a CSA member but would like to join to attend this event and perhaps become involved in the activities of the WA Division, you can join today at https://coloursociety.org.au/membership and take advantage of our special deal of membership to June 30, 2025 for the price of one-year's membership.


    About the presenter, Nancy Ballesteros:

    "For me, creating colour is my bliss. It’s where I can let go of the realities of running a small business and be free. It’s my absolute passion.

    Of course the path to happiness is never a straightforward one. And I’ll admit the decade I spent studying geology and veterinary science may not be ‘normal’ for someone who lives and breathes colour. But then again, being able to create a specific colour is a science, so maybe it was all part of my destiny.

    Losing myself in colour formulas is a self-confessed addiction! I’ve been known to spend days hand-dyeing and washing numerous samples before the perfect colour comes to life. It’s a slow, but thoroughly enjoyable process. And being a perfectionist, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

    For over a quarter of a century we’ve hand-dyed all of our wool and silks. It’s the best, and in my opinion, only way to achieve the stunning depth of colour we’re famous for".

    Website: https://treetopscolours.com.au/home

    Phyllis Shillito and her Colour Curriculum 1945-79

    And please don't forget our other International Colour Day 2024 event, held jointly by the CSA NSW Division and Museums of History NSW, and centred on the colour curriculum of pioneering Sydney-based colour and design educator Phyllis Shillito (1895-1980), on March 20, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM AEDT.


    Student exercise painted in gouache by Eva Fay at the Shillito Design School, 1976/77.

    In-person attendees at the Caroline Simpson Library (behind the Sydney Mint,10 Macquarie St, Sydney) will examine the impressive collection of student exercises and notes created by Eva Fay FDIA as a student at the Shillito Design School in the late 1970's, and donated in January this year to the Library, alongside earlier Shillito portfolios from the CSL and private collections. In addition, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, three presentations will establish the context of Shillito's teaching of colour, with some time for questions and comments from the live audience. Dr Catriona Quinn will examine the broader context of Phyllis Shillito’s impact on technical education and its relationship to the dynamic development of the Australian interior design profession. Jocelyn Maughan OAM, who studied colour directly under Shillito at East Sydney Technical College in 1956, will share her recollections of Shillito and give a critical assessment of Shillito’s approach to colour. And Dr David Briggs will discuss research he conducted jointly with Eva Fay that documented the direct influence of theorists Munsell, Ostwald, Maitland Graves, and especially H.B. Carpenter on Shillito's colour curriculum. Online attendees will be able to watch the three presentations and hear the discussion with the live audience via Zoom. For full details go to https://coloursociety.org.au/event-5626733.

    OTHER ONLINE ICD 2024 EVENTS


    AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design ICD 2024 event  Online seminar Colorful Landscape / Vibrant City Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM GMT

    Part I: Invited Speakers

    Mira Engler, Ph.D. Emerita Professor of Landscape Architecture
    Zena O'Connor, Ph.D. Colour Consultant, Researcher and Designer
    Beichen Yu, Ph.D. Researcher, Designer and Landscape Architect
    Leah Rosenberg, Painting and Installation Artist, Colorist

    Part II: Discussion moderated by Verena M. Schindler, Art & Architectural Historian and Juan Serra Lluch, Ph.D. Architect, Assistant Professor at UPV

    Organized by Beichen Yu jointly with Verena M. Schindler and Juan Serra Lluch, Chairs of the Study Group on Environmental Colour Design (SG ECD) of the International Colour Association (AIC), and the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

    Contact: ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com

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    ICA-Belgium Sunday Morning Colour Talk

    17 March 2024, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CET - online

    https://ica-belgium.org/events/agenda/

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    Deutsches Farbenzentrum e. V. (DZF) ICD 2024 event

    Shades of HERstory: Exploring Women's Influence on Colour Through History with Dr. Alexandra Loske and Brece Honeycutt

    21 March 2024, 8:00 - 10:00 PM CET - online

    Free Registration at https://deutsches-farbenzentrum.de/international-colour-day-2024-online-lecture/

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    Stiftelsen Svenskt Centrum ICD 2024 event

    Talk by Sophie Smallhorn

    21 March 2024, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CET - online

    Registration: Anmälan Stiftelsen Färgcentrum  anmalan@fargcentrum.se

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    Out of The Blue? Colour as Strategic Tool in The Built Environment to Engage With The Community

    The Colour Research Society of Canada will celebrate International Colour Day 2024 with Keynote Guest Speaker, Udo Schliemann, who will focus on colour's use in branding, signage, and building identification for cultural centres, public buildings, and the workplace environment.

    March 21, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EDT

    https://www.colourresearch.org/event-details-registration/out-of-the-blue-colour-as-strategic-tool-in-the-built-environment-to-engage-with-the-community

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    Colour & Poetry: A Symposium is a cross- and inter-disciplinary virtual event held annually by the Slade School of Fine Art. Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI takes place on the March 21-22, 2024. Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colour-and-poetry-a-symposium-vi-tickets-835943338027

    The event is a celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day. The symposium hosts a range of speakers representing the arts and humanities, science, and industry, drawing upon knowledge from within and outside of the UCL community.

    An online exhibition, to accompany the event, The Nomenclature of Colours III, will be online 21-22 March 2024 curated by Stephanie Nebbia.

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    ISCC/AIC Colour Literacy Project Forum: Colour in Context Part 1

    FRIDAY MARCH 22, 11:00AM-12:15PM ET

    To celebrate International Colour Day, the ISCC/AIC Colour Literacy Project is kicking off its next Forum series: Colour in Context. In this series, we will explore how the spatial, philosophical, cultural and historical contexts all affect the ways we perceive colours. Part 1 focuses on how the spatial juxtaposition and illumination impact colour perception, and the challenges we face when attempting to reconcile objective reality and subjective perception.

    With: Harald Arnkil (Visual artist, Colour researcher & Author of Colours in the Visual World) & Valtteri Arstila (Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku).

    Booking link: https://colourliteracy.org/colour-in-context

Past Events

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
13 Oct 2023 CSA National Conference 2023 - Additional events
12 Oct 2023 CSA National Conference 2023 Colour Sense and Sensibility
12 Oct 2023 CSA National Conference 2023 REGISTRATION PAGE
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)
21 Mar 2023 CSA WA Division: International Colour Day and National Harmony Day 2023
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)
5 Nov 2022 CSA WA Division: Colours Speak 2 & End of Year Dinner
2 Oct 2022 CSA NSW webinar: "A Colourful Life" with Linda Jackson AO
20 Aug 2022 CSA WA Division August event: "Back to Basics"
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)
25 Mar 2022 Joondalup Festival 2022
20 Mar 2022 CSA International Colour Day 2022 event: Progress in Colour Education
2 Mar 2022 Inter-Society Color Council (USA) webinar with Nick Harkness in conversation with Paula Alessi
23 Jan 2022 CSA WA Annual General Meeting 2021
22 Jan 2022 Seeing the colours of Joondalup
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
26 Nov 2021 CSA WA end-of-year event: Zoo trip
31 Oct 2021 CSA NSW October webinar: "A Conversation about Colour" with sculptor and painter Ron Robertson-Swann, hosted by artist Aly Indermühle
30 Oct 2021 CSA WA October event: Castaways sculptures at Rockingham foreshore
25 Sep 2021 CSA NSW September webinar "Concerning the Shape of Color" with Marcia R. Cohen, Professor Emerita SCAD Atlanta (USA)
11 Sep 2021 CSA Western Australian Division Meeting: Colour and Music 2
30 Aug 2021 AIC 14th Congress Milan 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
21 May 2021 CSA Western Australian Division: Dwellingup weekend away
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)
13 Mar 2021 CSA Western Australian Division Meeting: Colour and Music Part 1
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
5 Sep 2020 Walking, Looking, Seeing
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
7 Sep 2018 National Conference - Perception & Colour
7 Feb 2018 CSA QLD event: Global Fashion Colour Palettes
9 Sep 2016 Brisbane 2016 - Colour Speak
16 Apr 2016 CSA Southern Division event: Site Visit - Australia Garden Cranbourne
3 Oct 2014 Perth 2014 - Space Time Colour

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