Materiality of Colour: from Neolithic Earth Colours to Contemporary Interference Pigments
Abstract
Artist Antoni Malinowski has been commissioned to produce a major wall painting in the foyer of the new Mathematical Institute in Oxford, the Andrew Wiles Building. To celebrate and introduce that work Antoni and a series of distinguished speakers will demonstrate the different impacts and perceptions of colour produced by the micro-structure of the pigments, from an explanation of the pigments themselves to an examination of how the brain perceives colour.
Speakers:
Jo Volley, Gary Woodley and Malina Busch, the Pigment Timeline Project, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
‘Pigment Timeline’
Dr. Ruth Siddall - Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, University College London
‘Pigments: microstructure and origins?’
Antoni Malinowski
‘Spectrum Materialised’
Prof. Hannah Smithson Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow, Pembroke College
‘Colour Perception‘
11.30am, Lecture Theatre 1
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
No booking required