Colour and Poetry Symposium and online exhibition: Colour/Collage/Poetry
Poetic Interlude 鈥� various speakersColour & Poetry: A Symposium is a cross and interdisciplinary four-day event held by the Slade in celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day.听
Featured Media
Poster design: James Keith
Thomas Jenkins
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium is a cross and interdisciplinary four-day event held by the Slade in celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day.听
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, it includes presentations, readings, performance and practical workshops.
Colour/Collage/Poetry Exhibition
Colour/Collage/Poetry, an online exhibition accompanying the symposium, curated by artist Rebecca Loweth.
The show's theme is inspired by the use of collage in Lisa Milroy鈥檚 designs for the symposium posters. Slade staff, students, alumni and guests were invited to produce a single postcard size collage that interprets the subject of celebrating colour and/or poetry.
Colour and Poetry Posters
Lisa Milroy has designed a series of posters for the event, photographed by Thomas Jenkins and set by James Keith. The pdfs can be downloaded below:
Colour and Poetry 1
Colour and Poetry 2
Colour and Poetry 3
Colour and Poetry 4
Colour and Poetry 5
Colour and Poetry 6
Colour and Poetry 7
Combined (all 7 posters)
Programme of Events
Symposium Director: Jo Volley
(Please note the programme may be subject to change)
Download Programme pdf
You may book the聽, or individual sessions by clicking on the Eventbrite links listed under each session.
Friday 19 March
Saturday 20 March
Sunday 21 March
Monday 22 March
Friday 19 March
Morning Session:聽Book via聽
10.00听Introduction 听-听 Jo Volley聽Slade Deputy Director (Projects) & Coordinator Material Research Project & Network
10.15听碍别测苍辞迟别:听Painting Hinemihi By Numbers 听-听 ,听UCL Institute of Archaeology & Slade Scientist in Residence 2019-20
11.00听Poetry Reading听-听, artist & poet, Slade Deputy Director,听Head of the Doctoral Programme
11.30聽The Other Side of Blue: A Cyanometer for an Ecological Age -听, artist
12.00听Synonyms for colour names within and across languages -听Dr Dimitris Mylonas, Associate Professor in Computer Sciences, New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University聽& Chair of聽Study Group聽Language of Colour, AIC
12.30听Colour & Emotion: Measuring Wellbeing Creatively: Co-production of a Non- Verbal Wellbeing Measure .听Dr Nir Segal,听artist and mother.
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via聽
14.00听Seedbeds, outposts, avantgarde, vangarde, ivory tower: UCL鈥檚 Small Press Collections -听Liz Lawes, Subject Liaison Librarian: Fine Art and Small Press, University College London
14.30听The Colour of Iron听-听 David Dobson, is a geologist, mountaineer and print-maker, Professor UCL Earth Sciences, Slade Scientist in Residence 2018-19
15.00听Frida鈥檚 color - Calor de Frida聽 , artist聽
15.30听Curating Collage -听 Rebeccca Loweth,听Artist and curator of聽Colour / Collage / Poetry
16.00听Winton - whys and wherefores听-听 Mark Cann, Technical Excellence Manager, ColArt
16.30听Investigating Colour听-听Studies and research from Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan听-听Professor Maria Cristina Galli,听artist & Vice Director &聽聽Ilaria Mariotti, Professor of Contemporary Art History.
Saturday 20 March
Morning Session:聽Book via聽
10.00听Metachromasia: a stain on life -听 , artist & Emeritus Professor of Arts, Design and Science, Central Saint Martins
10.30听Albers in Practice -听 , artist
11.00听The walking experience of colour - Prof Yannis Ziogas, artist聽 & Dean of School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia
11.30听The beyond that is a beneath: renewed intertextualities in Anne Carson鈥檚 Autobiography of Red听-听Sara Borga, artist and researcher
12.00听罢丑别听 C olour of聽 W ords听-听,听artist Lives and works in London and is represented by Copperfield, London; Jane Lombard, New York; Fox Jensen, Sydney & Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland.听
12.30听Red + Gold - Medieval + Modern听-听, Professor of Medieval Literature, Director of Institute of English Studies, SAS
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via聽
14.00听Predicting Colour聽- Kate Hopkins, artist
14.30听 Poetic Interlude 鈥� various speakers
15.00听Voice Scores for Hearing the Inside of a Rock (insects, minerals, various poems) -听
15.30听Taking Shape: Seeing Through Colour听-听, artist & Associate Lecturer, University of Kent
16.00听Conversations of Colour within the Collection of the National Gallery, London
, Artist & Art historian
16.30听The Silence of White听-听, Artist & Professor of Art, College of William and Mary
Sunday 21 March
International Colour Day & World Poetry Day
Morning Session:聽Book via聽
10-10.15 Machines Have Lucid Dreams - Ivan Kashdan & Blithe Germ. A聽performance brought to you from the digital world of Machines Have Lucid Dreams, including original music, words, and actual footage of the sky.
10.15 -11am Marbling with James Keith, artist & Slade Print Technician
11am -11.15am聽Notes for a Poem听-听Fabian Peake
11.15am -12noon聽MORE POUR an exploration of pouring mediums and colour mixing听飞颈迟丑听Gabriela Giroletti, artist & TFAC demonstrator.
12noon Poetry reading - , artist, poet and activist聽
12.15 Poetry reading - Rhun Maredudd Jones
12.30听Incantations听-听Geraldine Snell.听A live performance using looped vocal observations of her immediate environment with devotional and presence-aiding intent.
12.45聽 Poetry reading -听,听artist, poet and curator at Van Gogh House London
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via聽
2辫尘听The Poetry of Colour听-听George Szirtes聽is a poet and translator.
2.30辫尘听Primary Triad聽- Ian Rowlands artist & TFAC demonstrator.
This workshop explores the crucial attributes of colour; hue, value and saturation and argues the case for the restricted palette as a highly empowering experience. The primary triad is capable of creating harmony and diversity.
3.15 Reading聽- Ishwari Bhalerao & Leonie Rousham
3.30鈥� 5pm聽Poetry Shed -The Poetry Shed at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, is an on-line resource and forum for creative writing across the school.听
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Life Drawing Class in Colour
(Places are limited and must be booked聽via this聽聽link. This is separate聽from the afternoon session )
5.30 - 7.30pm Life drawing with Andy Pankhurst, artist
While drawing from a clothed life model you will learn some basic principles of colour mixing by drawing directly with the colourful medium of coloured chalk pastels. Further details:聽/slade/events/colour-and-poetry-2021-life-class
Monday 22 March
World Pigment Day鈥檚 1st Anniversary and Longplayer will be streaming live
Morning Session:聽Book via聽
10.00听Welcome to World Pigment Day鈥檚 1st Anniversary - Jo Volley & Ruth Siddall
10.15听No Blue Until the Neolithic聽- Dr Ruth Siddall, UCL Geologist & Slade Scientist in Residence 2018-19
10.40 Poetry Reading - Andy Leak, Emeritus Professor, UCL French Dept
10.50听Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps聽- Julian Szego
11.00听Searching for Slade Green聽- Kim Selveggi, Slade Conservator in Residence, MSc Conservation for Archaeology and Museums at the Institute of Archaeology.
11.30 Collage workshop with Rebeccca Loweth, Artist and curator of Colour/Collage/Poetry
12.00听Chasing Winsor & Newton 19th-century colours for the preservation of our cultural heritage听-听Dr Vanessa Otero,听Researcher at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisbon (Portugal)
12.30听Acting out colour: Science, spiritualism, and orientalism in Beatrice Irwin's work -听Dr Alexandra Loske, art historian, writer and curator
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via聽
14.00听The Volatile Hues of Silver Halide听-听Joy Gregory, artist
14.30听Nothing Rhymes with Orange听-听Dr Edward Winters, writer and artist聽
15.00听51掳43 33.56 N 3掳07 58.63 W听-听Dr Onya McCausland聽is an artist and senior research fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art.听
15.30听Colour spaces and Ostwald-聽Stephanie Nebbia, artist & TFAC Global Manager, & Cris聽Cosgrave, chemist and Innovation & Development Manager, 聽Colart
16.00 Colours from light and shade鈥�: how George Field smuggled Aristotle into modern Japan听-听Paul Smith聽is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick
16.30 End of event with Kieren Reed, Slade Director & Jo Volley
Please note all times are GMT
Please note the programme may be subject to change