International Colour Day 2025 event:
International Colour Day Forum: The XRF Revolution in Painting Analysis and Painting Conservation

When:21 Mar 2025, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AEDT)
Where: on Zoom

Will you be attending?

For Details and Registration, visit: https://coloursociety.org.au/event-6094003

EVENT DETAILS:

By revealing all the chemical elements present in a painting, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) mapping can identify the individual pigments used by the painter and their exact locations, including those beneath the surface. Please join us online for our exciting International Colour Day 2025 event at 7 pm to 9 pm AEDT on Friday March 21, to be held in conjunction with the AIC Study Group in Arts and Design (SGAD) as the first of their new series of online forums on art and design topics. Three painting conservators, Simon Ives (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney), Marieke Gerken (Bruker Nano Analytics, Berlin) and Rika Pause (Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam) will speak on remarkable new insights provided by applying XRF and other non-invasive tools in the fields of painting analysis and painting conservation. The forum will be introduced by SGAD Chair Prof. Dr. Maria João Durão (University of Lisbon), and will conclude with a discussion of questions from the audience chaired by CSA Vice President and SGAD Co-chair Dr David Briggs.

In addition to our online International Colour Day event, our Western Australian Division is planning an in-person ICD celebration in Perth on March 22 and their Divisional AGM on March 29, both at the Grove library, Peppermint Grove. Enquiries are welcome at csa.nec.pres@gmail.com.

TALK 1: New light on the AGNSW portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici by Bronzino | by Simon Ives
TALK 2: Glimpsing over the shoulder of artists – Mapping the chemistry of 14th to 17th century European paintings on the surface and below | by Mareike Gerken
TALK 3: Colourful Avantgarde – a non-invasive approach to the modern artist’s palette | by Rika Pause