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MEETINGS FOR 2008-2009
Thursday 5 February 2009 |
Turner Medal Lecture and Presentation
Emulous of light: Turner's colour revisited
On the relationship of light and colour in JMWT
The 2009 Turner Medal is to be awarded to John Gage for his work on colour in art on
Thursday 5 February 2009 at the Royal College of Art at 18.00 hrs.
Lecture Theatre 1, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Please use the entrance in Jay Mews.
Note: there is an exhibition concerning the Colour Reference Library and also a printmaking
exhibition that could be visited before the Turner Medal meeting.
Tea can be purchased in the College canteen for those who need refreshment before the lecture.
The meeting is open to all and entry is free.
John Gage with a Leonardo da Vinci at the British Museum
(still from the DVD Investigations from the Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
http://www.shadowyfigures.com/dvd_eng.html)
Dr John Gage is a specialist in the history of colour and its analysis
- how we see it, how it affects us and how it has been used in artworks
throughout history. Educated at The Queen's College, Oxford and the
Courlauld Institute of Art in London, Gage began his career teaching
English in Italy and Germany. In 1979 he became a lecturer at Cambridge
University Department of History of Art, where he was Head of
Department from 1993 - 1996. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of
Arts and The British Academy, and the recipient of several fellowships
and prizes including the Mitchell Prize for Art History and the Sikkens
Prize for work on colour. Gage's books include Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth 1969, Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction 1993, Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism,1999
and Colour in Art, 2007. At present he is engaged in a study of
Australian Aboriginal approaches to colour in painting, a study which
began with an exhibition, Restricting the Palette: Colour and Land,
Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, 2000. He lives
in Tuscany. (from Light from Shadow web pages: http://www.shadowyfigures.com/)
Nearest Tubes to Kensington Gore
High Street Kensington
(plus 10 minute walk or 5 minutes on bus 9, 10, 452 or 52)
South Kensington
(plus 10 minute walk)
Knightsbridge
(plus 20 minute walk or 10 minutes on bus 9, 10, 452 or 52)
Buses Stopping Outside the College in Kensington Gore
Bus 9 – route Hammersmith, High St Kensington, Knightsbridge, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus
Bus 10 – route Hammersmith, High St Kensington, Knightsbridge, Hyde Park Corner, Oxford Street
Bus 52 – route Willesden Green, Notting Hill, High St Kensington, Knightsbridge, Hyde Park Corner, Victoria Station
Bus 452 – Hammersmith, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Sloane Square, Battersea
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