The Colour Group logo is based on NEWTON's experiment using a prism to break white light into its constituent colours MEETINGS FOR 2008-2009



Programme details for the last year (2007-2008)



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Day Date Time Topic Place
Thursday 11 September 2008 14.00 hrs When Vision Explores Art
Part of the British Association Festival of Science in the European Capital of Culture, Liverpool
An all day meeting in the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool. Event fee payable.
Victoria Building, University of Liverpool
Friday 19 September 2008 10.00 hrs PUPIL INFORMATICS: Pupil Response Mechanisms,
Visual Performance & Clinical Applications

All day meeting jointly sponsored by the Colour Group: registration required
Applied Vision Research Centre,
City University,
London, EC1V 0HB.
Wednesday 8 October 2008 14.00 hrs Colour Conservation at the V & A
V&A experts describe the problems they face and the solutions they adopt.
Registration before 26 September 2008 is required
V&A Museum, South Kensington
Wednesday 5 November 2008 14.00 hrs WD Wright & MacDonald/Green Awards: An Educational Exercise
Holders of the Awards for 2008 will describe their work with feedback from a panel of experts
Registration is essential but free
NB There is to be an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Group before this
meeting at 13.40 hrs: agenda already published in the November Newsletter
Bradford University
Wednesday 3 December 2008 14.00 hrs Teaching Colour
The two new Colour Group Teaching Fellows will deliver their presentations and Messrs Tarrant and Hanson will provide colour demonstrations from their repertoire
Oliver Thompson Lecture theatre, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1
Wednesday 7 January 2009 10.00 hrs One-day Vision Meeting
and Palmer Lecture by Prof Ken Knoblauch
Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, Bron, France.
A registration fee is required for this meeting
Institute of Ophthalmology
Bath Street, London EC1

Thursday

5 February 2009 18.00 hrs
Turner Medal Lecture and Presentation
Emulous of light: Turner's colour revisited
John Gage will receive the Turner Medal
Jay Mews entrance
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
Wednesday 4 March 2009 14.00 hrs Design and Colour: current research and future directions
Jointly with the Society of Dyers and Colourists, Leeds Students Section
The meeting is concerned with aspects of colour as seen by speakers from Leeds and Ulster
Colour Science Building
University of Leeds
Wednesday 8 April 2009 14.00 hrs
Surface Colouration in Ceramics, Metal and Glass
Various aspects of medieval and modern colour on these materials
Room E215, Drysdale Building,
City University, London
Wednesday 13 May 2009 14.00 hrs Annual General Meeting (Members only)
Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of the Colour Group (Great Britain). This will be held at the City University, London EC1 at 14.00 hrs
At 14.30 hrs (open to all) Prof Lindsay MacDonald will deliver the Retiring Chairman's Address entitled The Future of Colour
Oliver Thompson Theatre,
City University, London
Wednesday 24 June 2009 09.00 - 17.30 hrs Integration of Design and Science: Light, Materials and Colour and Environment
Hosted by: Design Research Centre (DRC), DesignPlus at Kingston University, London and the Colour Group. All day with a block of tickets reserved for Colour Group members. Registration required.
RIBA, 66, Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
Tuesday
14 July 2009
12.00 hrs
Visit to the Tate Liverpool: Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour - 1950 to Today
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/colourchart/default.shtm
Meet at Noon for lunch for which you will choose and pay in a local facility and then tour the exhibition: £7.80 (£5.90 concessions). If you are going please inform our Treasurer by email on:
Valerie.Bonnardel@winchester.ac.uk
Meet at entrance of Tate,
Albert Dock, Liverpool,
L3 4BB.
0151 702 7400
visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk



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