Materiality of Colour - from Neolithic Earth Colours to Contemporary Interference Pigments
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’
Date: 10 June 2015, 11:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2015)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Speaker: Antoni Malinowski
Organising department: Mathematical Institute
Organiser contact email address: lumbard@maths.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Anne Bowtell, Dyrol Lumbard