The Colour & Emotion exhibition is the outcome of an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project looking at colour, sensation and emotion and was funded by a UCL Grand Challenges: Human Wellbeing Award. It brought together artists, a human geographer, a speech and language therapists and a group of adults with acquired communication difficulties in a series of co-production workshops in January - March 2017.

The broader aim of the research was to investigate the potential within colour to establish a non-verbal approach to measuring human well-being creatively.  In a series of co-production workshops in January-March 2017.  Each workshop explored how colour can create a visual language for expressing feelings and emotions and from the results a Colour & Emotion Toolkit was designed and 5 prototypes produced. Accompanying the toolkit is a publication, Colour & Emotion Manual, which provides instructions for its use. The exhibition showcases the toolkit, research conducted during the workshops and includes a number of works by artists who have been involved in its making or have been involved in working with colour and human wellbeing.  Jo Volley -  Dr Nuala Morse -  Nir Segal -  Dr Mickey Dean.

Exhibiting artists: Malgorzata Bany, Jin Han Lee, Grace Hailstone, Thomas Jenkins, James Keith, Caroline de Lannoy, Stephanie Nebbia,  Nir Segal, Lesley Sharpe, Estelle Thompson, Jo Volley & Rob Welch. 

The exhibition takes place between 12 January - 21 February 2018 at:

The Street Gallery
University College Hospital
235 Euston Road
London NW1 2BU