Colour and Poetry Symposium and online exhibition: Colour/Collage/Poetry
Poetic Interlude – 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.
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.
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’s 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 full programme here via Eventbrite, 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: Book via Eventbrite
10.00 Introduction - Jo Volley Slade Deputy Director (Projects) & Coordinator Material Research Project & Network
10.15 Keynote: Painting Hinemihi By Numbers - Dr Dean Sully , UCL Institute of Archaeology & Slade Scientist in Residence 2019-20
11.00 Poetry Reading - Professor Sharon Morris, artist & poet, Slade Deputy Director, Head of the Doctoral Programme
11.30 The Other Side of Blue: A Cyanometer for an Ecological Age - Dr Henrietta Simson, artist
12.00 Synonyms for colour names within and across languages - Dr Dimitris Mylonas, Associate Professor in Computer Sciences, New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University & Chair of Study Group Language of Colour, AIC
12.30 Colour & Emotion: Measuring Wellbeing Creatively: Co-production of a Non- Verbal Wellbeing Measure . Dr Nir Segal, artist and mother.
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via Eventbrite
14.00 Seedbeds, outposts, avantgarde, vangarde, ivory tower: UCL’s Small Press Collections - Liz Lawes, Subject Liaison Librarian: Fine Art and Small Press, University College London
14.30 The Colour of Iron - David Dobson, is a geologist, mountaineer and print-maker, Professor UCL Earth Sciences, Slade Scientist in Residence 2018-19
15.00 Frida’s color - Calor de Frida Alvaro Barrington, artist
15.30 Curating Collage - Rebeccca Loweth, Artist and curator of Colour / Collage / Poetry
16.00 Winton - whys and wherefores - Mark Cann, Technical Excellence Manager, ColArt
16.30 Investigating Colour - Studies and research from Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan - Professor Maria Cristina Galli, artist & Vice Director & Ilaria Mariotti, Professor of Contemporary Art History.
Saturday 20 March
Morning Session: Book via Eventbrite
10.00 Metachromasia: a stain on life - Rob Kesseler, artist & Emeritus Professor of Arts, Design and Science, Central Saint Martins
10.30 Albers in Practice - Malina Busch, artist
11.00 The walking experience of colour - Prof Yannis Ziogas, artist & Dean of School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia
11.30 The beyond that is a beneath: renewed intertextualities in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red - Sara Borga, artist and researcher
12.00 The C olour of W ords - Jane Bustin, artist Lives and works in London and is represented by Copperfield, London; Jane Lombard, New York; Fox Jensen, Sydney & Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland.
12.30 Red + Gold - Medieval + Modern - Prof Clare A. Lees, Professor of Medieval Literature, Director of Institute of English Studies, SAS
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via Eventbrite
14.00 Predicting Colour - Kate Hopkins, artist
14.30 Poetic Interlude – various speakers
15.00 Voice Scores for Hearing the Inside of a Rock (insects, minerals, various poems) - Sean Borodale
15.30 Taking Shape: Seeing Through Colour - Dr Sara Choudhrey, artist & Associate Lecturer, University of Kent
16.00 Conversations of Colour within the Collection of the National Gallery, London
Rose Davey, Artist & Art historian
16.30 The Silence of White - Elizabeth Mead, Artist & Professor of Art, College of William and Mary
Sunday 21 March
International Colour Day & World Poetry Day
Morning Session: Book via Eventbrite
10-10.15 Machines Have Lucid Dreams - Ivan Kashdan & Blithe Germ. A 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 Notes for a Poem - Fabian Peake
11.15am -12noon MORE POUR an exploration of pouring mediums and colour mixing with Gabriela Giroletti, artist & TFAC demonstrator.
12noon Poetry reading - Mataio Austin Dean, artist, poet and activist
12.15 Poetry reading - Rhun Maredudd Jones
12.30 Incantations - Geraldine Snell. A live performance using looped vocal observations of her immediate environment with devotional and presence-aiding intent.
12.45 Poetry reading - Benjamin Arthur Brown, artist, poet and curator at Van Gogh House London
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via Eventbrite
2pm The Poetry of Colour - George Szirtes is a poet and translator.
2.30pm Primary Triad - 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 - Ishwari Bhalerao & Leonie Rousham
3.30– 5pm 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.
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Life Drawing Class in Colour
(Places are limited and must be booked via this Eventbrite link. This is separate 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: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/colour-and-poetry-2021-life-class
Monday 22 March
World Pigment Day’s 1st Anniversary and Longplayer will be streaming live
Morning Session: Book via Eventbrite
10.00 Welcome to World Pigment Day’s 1st Anniversary - Jo Volley & Ruth Siddall
10.15 No Blue Until the Neolithic - Dr Ruth Siddall, UCL Geologist & Slade Scientist in Residence 2018-19
10.40 Poetry Reading - Andy Leak, Emeritus Professor, UCL French Dept
10.50 Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps - Julian Szego
11.00 Searching for Slade Green - 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 Chasing Winsor & Newton 19th-century colours for the preservation of our cultural heritage - Dr Vanessa Otero, Researcher at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisbon (Portugal)
12.30 Acting out colour: Science, spiritualism, and orientalism in Beatrice Irwin's work - Dr Alexandra Loske, art historian, writer and curator
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: Book via Eventbrite
14.00 The Volatile Hues of Silver Halide - Joy Gregory, artist
14.30 Nothing Rhymes with Orange - Dr Edward Winters, writer and artist
15.00 51°43 33.56 N 3°07 58.63 W - Dr Onya McCausland is an artist and senior research fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art.
15.30 Colour spaces and Ostwald- Stephanie Nebbia, artist & TFAC Global Manager, & Cris Cosgrave, chemist and Innovation & Development Manager, Colart
16.00 Colours from light and shade’: how George Field smuggled Aristotle into modern Japan - Paul Smith 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