Colour Stories - Colour Mapping the Living Past
Reimagining a Colour Narrative
27 April 2024, 10:30 - 16:30 CEST, Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren, Belgium
This one-day colour workshop is a creative investigation into the Colours of Antiquity, organised in collaboration between the Interdisciplinary Colour Association Belgium and the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium. Together with Inez Michiels and Jeannette Hanenburg.
Discover how to use the power of colour and storytelling to develop captivating colour palettes and create work that resonates and communicates.
- learn how to record, analyse and experiment with colour
- grow confidence in making colour choices, creating cohesive and meaningful colour palettes
- form a narrative through colour and composition
- translate historical colour information into an art or design project, inspired by personal reflection, the power of storytelling and memory
- explore the role and meaning of colour in antiquity
Exploring – recording – creating. These activities will take you through a hands-on investigation and exploration of colour awareness, colour measurement and notation, all while mapping the colours of selected works in the exhibition ‘Antiquity in Colour’ at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium's oldest city, not far from the borders of The Netherlands and Germany.
Together we will explore the notion of real (measured) and perceived colour and analyse the intricate dynamics of colour, form, scale, material and pattern. Exploring the narrative of the past will offer the inspiration for the stories of today, your stories.
Through colour matching, you will create colour palettes and develop your own colour combinations inspired directly by the exhibition, the stories from mythology and eventually your own stories and memories. You will explore these colour narratives and colour associations by creating art compositions, combining collages of coloured paper and written words. The old stories are thus to give birth to the new ones.
The workshop ends with an exhibition of participants’ work.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for creative professionals and students in general, as well as all lovers of history and colour.
More information and registration can be found here.
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