Meeting Archive

An update to the record of meetings published in The Advancement of Colour

  • Vision Symposium (January 1991)
  • Golden Jubilee and Newton Lecture (February 1991)
  • Colour and the history of Art (March 1991)
  • The Measurement of surface colour (March 1991)
  • Colour and Appearance in Folklore (April 1991)
  • – (Joint meeting with the Folklore Society)
  • AGM and retiring Chairman’s address (May 1991)
  • -Shifts and spots by D Palmer
  • Coloured Spectacles and reading difficulties (July 1991)
  • – Joint conference with the AVA
  • Report from Australian conferences (October 1991)
  • Measuring & modelling the colour appearance of displays (November 1991)
  • Drugs and colour (December 1991)
  • Second Bartleson Symposium (January 1992)
  • Colour in Art (February 1992)
  • Setting standards and tolerances (March 1992)
  • Postgraduate contribution meeting (April 1992)
  • AGM and Colour Vision in Animals (May 1992)
  • Summer visit to the Courtauld Institute (June 1992)
  • Colour in displays & new technologies (October 1992)
  • Colour in the history of Art (November 1992)
  • Colour Matching and Prediction (December 1992)
  • Colour Vision Deficiences (January 1993)
  • The Newton Lecture (February 1993)
  • – Colour Vision as a guide to brain organisation by S M Zeki
  • Colour in Architecture (March 1993)
  • – Light and colour in the portrayal of buildings by B Johnson
  • Colour in Archeology (March 1993),
  • – jointly with the Institute of Archeology
  • AGM and retiring Chairman’s address (May 1993)
  • – The role of colour in the organisation of the visual field by J Mollon
  • Displays and new technologies (October 1993)
  • Pigments in manuscripts (November 1993)
  • Photometry & Colorimetric developments in the CIE (December 1993)
  • Vision Meeting (January 1994)
  • Colours of natural objects (February 1994)
  • Colour in Education (March 1994)
  • Images in colour (April 1994)
  • – 3 day AIC Interim conference
  • AGM and Colour on video (May 1994)
  • Developments in displays (October 1994)
  • Colour in Art (November 1994)
  • Fluorescence and colour (December 1994)
  • Postgraduate meeting (February 1995)
  • Total Appearance (March 1995)
  • Colour in Maps (March 1995)
  • George Palmer Bicentennial (April 1995)
  • AGM and retiring Chairman’s address (May 1995)
  • New Light on an old problem by Dr P Forsyth
  • Visit to Hurn Airport ( June 1995)
  • CIE Meeting in India (October 1995)
  • Newton Lecture (November 1995)
  • – The effect of colour physics on the textile industry by Dr R McDonald
  • Colour in 3D design (December 1995)
  • Colour Physics – moving screen imaes to hardcopy (January 1996)
  • Colour in contemporary painting (January 1996)
  • Colour and illumination in architecture (February 1996)
  • Colour in machine vision (March 1996)
  • – (Joint meeting with the BMVA)
  • Colour in Context (April 1966)
  • – 2-day colour science meeting in Durham
  • AGM and ‘Colour is Fun’ (May 1996)
  • – The Institute of Physics Schools lecture by Arthur Tarrant
  • Summer visit to Design Research Centre (Derby University) (June 1996)
  • Research Meeting to honour W D Wright’s 90th birthday (October 1996)
  • Colour in Psychology and symbolism (November 1996)
  • Colour in stained glass (December 1996)
  • Comparative & Biological aspects of colour Vision (January 1997)
  • Display Technology Meeting (February 1997)
  • Colour in Printing (March 1997)
  • Postgraduate contributions (April 1997)
  • AGM (May 1997) and Retiring Chairman’s address:
  • – Colour in Fashion: a Generations theory’ by Roy Osborne
  • Summer visit to Lord Rayleigh’s Laboratory (June 1997)
  • Bartleson Symposium (October 1997)
  • Newton Lecture (November 1997)
  • – Aesthetics of Colour, by Don Pavey
  • Colour and the Environment (December 1997)
  • Keith Ruddock Memorial Vision Meeting (January 1998)
  • Colour in Lighting (February 1998)
  • Colour and the Internet (March 1998)
  • Colour Matching and Reproduction (March/April 1998)
  • – (Part of Science 98 at Harrogate)
  • AGM, followed by (May 1998)
  • – J M W Turner Lecture, by Peter Sedgley
  • Summer Visit to Stained Glass Museum and Ely Cathedral.
  • Colour in Images (October 1998)
  • Colour in Food (November 1998)
  • Colour in Art (December 1998)
  • Comparative & Biological Aspects of Colour Vision (January 1999)
  • Postgraduate meeting (February 1999)
  • History of Colour Theory (March 1999)
  • John Holmes 90th Birthday Celebrations (April 1999)
  • AGM & Retiring Chairman’s Address (May 1999)
  • – How accurately can we quantify colour? by Dr J A F Taylor
  • Summer Visit to Colour Museum, Bradford (June 1999)
  • Newton Lecture: (October 1999)
  • – The colour-sense: its origin and development, by John Mollon
  • Joint Postgraduate meeting with AVA (November 1999)
  • Camouflage (December 1999)
  • Colour in Computer Vision (January 2000)
  • – Joint meeting with the BMVA
  • Colour and Microscopy (February 2000)
  • – Natural History Museum (Joint meeting with the Quekett Microscopical Club)
  • Colour 2000 Session IV: Colour Difference (April 2000)
  • – Joint Meeting of NPL & University of Derby
  • AGM & J M W Turner Lecture (May 2000)
  • – Colour into Action Albert Irwin
  • Summer Visit to Tintometer Ltd, Salisbury (June 2000)
  • Colour Vision: Variance and Constancy (September 2000)
  • – 2-day Meeting at Newcastle
  • Colour in Displays (November 2000)
  • Colour Vision: basic studies and clinical applications (December 2000)
  • Colour in the Therapeutic environment (January 2001)
  • Colour in printing (February 2001)
  • Colour and lighting spectaculars (March 2001)
  • 3rd J M W Turner Lecture (April 2001)
  • – Leonardo and the Perennial problems of colour, by Martin Kemp
  • AGM and retiring chairman’s address (May 2001) by Anya Hurlbert
  • Summer Visit to Colourscape at Crystal Palace (June 2001)
  • Newton Lecture (October 2001)
  • – Driving forces for colour usage in food, biological nature and human behaviour
  • by John P Hutchings
  • AVA-Colour Group Postgraduate Meeting (November 2001)
  • Colour in Photography (December 2001)
  • Aspects of Colour Vision(January 2002)
  • Colour in Food (February 2002)
  • Colour Measurement (March 2002)
  • Colour in Art, (3rd April 2002)
  • AGM and Colour in Nature, (15th May 2002)
  • Postgraduate Meeting, (2 October 2002)
  • Colour Vision Defects (Daltonism) Practical Issues, (6 November 2002)
  • Hidden Treasures, A tour of the RCA Colour Library, (4 December 2002)
  • All Day Vision Meeting (8 January 2002)
  • Advanced Colorimetry (5 February 2003)
  • Colour in Music (5 March 2003)
  • J M W Turner Lecture: Telesio’s Colour Dictionary of 1528 (2 April 2003)
  • AGM and Colour Matters (retiring Chairmans Address) (14 May 2003)
  • Colour in Art (Glass and Ceramics) (1 October 2003)
  • The CIE in Action – 2003 (19 November 2003)
  • Newton Lecture – Relating the Composition of Materials to Their Colour (10 December 2003)
  • Vision Meeting and the First David Palmer Lecture (7 January 2004)
  • Measurement of Appearance (4th February 2004)
  • Visual Displays (3 March 2004)
  • March-April 2004 Colour Group Exhibition at the Institute of Physics
  • Colour in Forgeries (31 March 2004)
  • AGM and Colour and Conservation – invited talk by Ian Bristow (12 May 2004)
  • Secrets of Colour Publishing, joint meeting with British Computer Society;(8 September 2004)
  • Awards Meeting for holders to report their work (6 October 2004)
  • Mesopic Vision (17 November 2004)
  • Colour Science (1 December 2004)
  • Vision Meeting and the Second Palmer Lecture (12 January 2005)
  • Ink Jet Printing (2 February 2005)
  • Artists of the Colour Group Speaker (2 March 2005)
  • Colour in Conservation: the Art Workers’ Guild (6 April 2005)
  • AGM and retiring Chairman’s address: Colour Appearance Models and the Influence of the Colour Group (4 May 2005)
  • Science Meeting in which six of the Palmer awardees described their work (5 October 2005)
  • The Colour of Abstraction (16 November 2005)
  • Colour Vision Deficiencies (7 December 2005)
  • Vision Meeting and Third Palmer Lecture (12 January 2006)
  • Art Meeting – Colour in Symbolism & Colour in Fashion (1 February 2006)
  • 21st Newton Medal awarded to Prof Richard Gregory FRS (1 March 2006)
  • The 1931 Standard Observer (5 April 2006)
  • AGM and Invited Speaker, Jules Davidoff (10 May 2006)
  • Colour Vision in Anaslysis, joint meeting with the BMVA (14 June 2006)
  • Teaching Colour in Art (4 October 2006)
  • Coloured Filters in the Eye: Protective Functions and Effects on Visual Performance.   Joint meeting with Applied Vision Research Cnetre, City University (17 & 18 November 2006)
  • Bridging the Gap: Colour, Design, Total Appearance, Science and Expectations (6 December 2006)
  • Vision Meeting and Fourth Palmer Lecture (10 January 2007)
  • Turner lecture: The Only Thing Constant is Change – A Life in Colour.  Zandra Rhodes (7 February 2007)
  • A Tribute to Professor Robert Alexander Weale.  One day meeting in Cambridge (4 April 2007)
  • AGM and retiring chairman’s address Fulvio Morato and Reformation Colour Symbolism by Mr Roy Osborne (16 May 2007)
  • Joint meeting with the Computer Art Society: Colour in Computer Art (20 June 2007)
  • All day joint meeting with Institute of Physics (REMS): The Eye and How We See Colour (12 July 2007)
  • Jointly meeting in Bradford organized by the National Museum of Media, the Colour Group of the IoP and the Colour Group (GB) to coincide with the exhibition there celebrating the Invention of autochrome process for colour photography (15 September 2007)
  • Extra-Ordinary General Meeting plus: Colour and Harmony in Psychology (03 October 2007)
  • Science Meeting: Presentations by Palmer Award winners (07 Novemebr 2007)
  • Vision Meeting and Palmer Lecture (Pieter Walraven, Netherlands) and including the sponsored CRSLtd Lecture by Michael Webster (University of Nevada, USA) (09 January 2008)
  • Newton Lecture: The Use of Color Science in Art Conservation, Roy S Berns, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA (05 March 2008)
  • Annual General Meeting plus Alun Foster: The manufacture of Rose Madder pigment by Winsor &Newton and Victoria Finlay: Travels Through the Palette (14 May 2008)
  • When Vision Explores Art: Part of the British Association Festival of Science in the European Capital of Culture, Liverpool (11 September 2008)
  • Pupil Informatics: Pupil Response Mechanisms, Visual Performance ; Clinical Applications Joint with Applied Vision Research Centre, City University (19 September 2008)
  • Colour Conservation at the V & A (08 October 2008)
  • WD Wright & MacDonald/Green Awards: An Educational Exercise, Bradford University (05 November 2008)
  • Teaching Colour: The two Colour Group Teaching Fellows deliver their talks (03 December 2008)
  • Vision Meeting and Palmer Lecture by Ken Knoblauch, Bron, France (07 January 2009)
  • Turner Medal Lecture: Emulous of light: Turner’s colour revisited. John Gage. At Royal College of Art (05 February 2009)
  • Design and Colour: current research and future directions. Jointly with the Society of Dyers and Colourists, Leeds Students Section, Leeds University (04 March 2009)
  • Surface Colouration in Ceramics, Metal and Glass – Various aspects of medieval and modern colour on these materials (08 April 2009)
  • Annual General Meeting, Prof Moreland The future of colour (13 May 2009)
  • Colour Science in the Future Mike Pointer and Robert Hunt City University (07 October 2009)
  • Palmer Award Presentations Holders of the Award make presentations. City University (04 November 2009)
  • Vision Meeting, Palmer Lecture (Prof Donald MacLeod) & CRS Sponsored Lecture. City University (06 January 2010)
  • Colour Deceits: House of Deceits of the Sight (Prof C Kennard) & Colour Demos (Arthur Tarrant). City University (10 February 2010)
  • Joint Meeting: Newton Medal Lecture (Janos Schanda) and W S Stiles Memorial Lecture (Qasim Zaidi). UCL (03 March 2010)
  • Lecture: Chris Ofili and His Work; followed by a visit to the exhibition. Tate Britain (07 April 2010)
  • A tour to the Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, plus meeting on Colour and Textiles: from past to future. Paris. (28 June 2010)
  • Visit Newton’s Birth Place at Wooplsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire. (28 July 2010)
  • Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Lase. NPL, Teddington. (20 October 2010)
  • Designers that Colour: how is colour used In ceramics, jewellery, fabrics or other media? City University. (03 November 2010)
  • WD Wright Award Presentations & Jules Davidoff (Goldsmith College) Mapping the countries of colour space. City University. (01 December 2010)
  • Vision Meeting, Palmer Lecture (Arne Valberg) & CRS Sponsored Lecture (Rigmor C. Baraas) Institue of Ophthalmology, London. (12 January 2011)
  • Margaret Halstead Memorial Meeting: The Colour of Light. City University. (02 March 2011)
  • AGM and Confounding Colorimetric Curiosities (Andrew Hanson). City University. (04 May 2011)
  • Palmer Awards Presentations by W. Bi, Evgenia Konstantakopoulou, Kaida Xiao & Maria Georgoula (05 October 2011)
  • Painters that Colour: painters discuss the use of colour within their paintings (02 November 2011)
  • BLUE – the World’s Favourite Colour. All-day meeting (30 November 2011)
  • Cavonius Meeting & Palmer Lecture: all-day meeting dedicated to the memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (11 January 2012)
  • Colour of Metal: more this popular subject, plus an Extraordinary General Meeting (01 February 21012)
  • Blue Alchemy: a soiree to screen the new film about indigo (07 March 2012)
  • Discovering Form from Colour and Light: a two day symposium jointly with the Associação Portuguesa da Cor, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (26=27 March 2012)
  • Newton Medal Lecture by Françoise Vienot, Paris and W.S. Stiles Lecture by Laurence Maloney, New York, a joint meeting with UCL, Gower Street(13 april 2012)
  • AGM plus Prof Patrick Callet (Paris) Spectral Simulation for Cultural Heritage — A scientific Methodology and Some Example City University (02 May 2012)
  • Woad Dyeing Workshop and visit to the woad farm. Dereham, Norfolk (26 June 2012)
  • Colour at Leeds Students of the University of Leeds describe their work plus Review of the CIE Division 1 Meeting, Taiwan, September 2012. City University (03 October 2012)
  • Colour for Business and the Professions:authors of the new book Colour Design Theories and Applications talked. City University (30 November 2012)
  • 10 x 10 x 10 Colour Artists Artists (in any medium) present examples of their work in a structured format. City University (05 December 2012)
  • Colour Vision Meeting & Palmer Lecture (John Barbur, City University) and CRS Sponsored Lecture (Arthur Shapiro, American University, Washington). Institute of Ophthalmology (09 January 2013)
  • Turner Medal Lecture and Presentation to Kaffe Fasset City University (07 February 2013)
  • Colour Cues to Material Properties: all day symposium, reception, review of modern art collection. Pembroke College, Cambridge (13 March 2013)
  • Colours in India. A look at the meaning of colours from colour association to colour symbolis. City University (10 April 2013)
  • AGM and ‘Why are the new CIE colour matching functions “physiologically-based” and the old ones not?’ City University (01 May 2013)
  • Bringing Colour to Life, AIC 2013 Internatinal Congress at Gateshead (08-12 July 2013)
  • Physiology of Colour, CG joint sponsorship with International Colour Vision Society (ICVS). University of Winchester (14 July 2013)
  • IX Conferenza del Colore – the first joint meeting with the Gruppo Del Colore (Italy). Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy (19-20 July 2013)
  • Blue lights: benefits, hazards and sensitivities Experts help members to understand blue light City University (06 November 2013)
  • Colour Group Christmas Colour Caper Members created their own piece of unique art work. Colour Makes People Happy Store, East Dulwich, London(04 December 2013)
  • Colour Vision Meeting & Palmer Lecture (Steven K. Shevell,Chicago) and CRS Sponsored Lecture (Bevil Conway, Boston) . Institute of Ophthalmology(08 January 2014)
  • Colour in Fashion Colour and Trends in Ccolour Forecasting for Fashion. City Univeristy (05 February 2014)
  • Colour in Clapham. A celebration of the International Day of Colour. Omnibus, Clapham, London, SW4 0QW (21 March 2014)
  • New Perspectives on Colour. The Colour Group joined the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) Annual Conventio. Goldsmiths College (03-04 April 2014)
  • AGM, presentation of new Coat of Arms by the Lancaster Herald from the College of Arms, plus the Newton Medal Lecture Progress Towards the Measurement of Appearance – Tortoise or Hare? by Michael R Pointer. City University (07 May 2014)
  • Form through Colour: Josef Albers, Anni Albers and Gary Hume. A private tour of the exhibition for Colour Group Members. Somerset House, The Strand, London.(05 June 2014)
  • Drop in to Colour: for families and kids as part of the summer riot of colour with a major exhibition of the works of Piet Mondrian. Turner Contemporary Margate (14 June 2014)
  • Gruppo del Colore – X Colour Conference Jointly with the CG (GB) and Centre Francaise de la Couleur. Genoa,Italy (11-12 September 2014)
  • Malevich Exhibition: Private lecture & tour. Colour Group members. Tate Modern, London (01 October 2014)
  • Colour Group Awards Meeting: Awardees of the WDW and CRS awards describe their work plus Lars Chittka and Daniel Osorio as guest speakers. City University (12 November 2014)
  • Colour and Sparkle in Jewelry. City University (03 December 2014)

The programme of events for earlier years from 1991 may be found on the Meeting Archive page or for more recent events from 2005 in the ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE: MEETING DETAILS section of the Trustees’ (or Secretary’s) Annual Reports.  The programmes for the last three years are found on the Events Archive page.