Blood Relations
Anish Kapoor
Blood and Ink
A series of activities inspired by the exhibition that explore sensuality, materiality and storytelling through drawing, writing, discussion and film.

Chemistry of Colour
Wednesday 22 April, 7.30-8.45pm
Slide presentation and discussion with Stig Evans.
Stig Evans is intrigued by colour and how we perceive it.
Stig trained as a painter and printmaker in the late 1980s and has combined conservation work with his artistic practice since the early 1990s by using historical paintings and their materials as starting points for new work.

Fascinated as much by the chemical make up of colour, and its application, as the emotional impact of it. Recent projects include:

Versions explores the paint layers that constitute a final image. Working from historic paintings microscopic cross-sections of paint samples were used as a starting point for new paintings.

Mean Difference from Happy and Back made in collaboration with the National Physical laboratory and infrared imaging specialists Tagar Stonor Richardson. A spectrophotometer was used to measure the colour changes in a human face in different emotional states. The spectrophotometer is able to register colours beyond the capabilities of the human eye. The results from the spectrophotometer were deciphered and two emotions were chosen to be made into portraits.

Colour Diaries draw on the emotional power of colour and the therapeutic activity of painting as a means to explore our relationship between art and emotion. Executed through a series of workshops, painted colour diary panels are developed by encouraging participants to talk about their responses to particular colours, and develop their own personal colour palette. Over a period of weeks or months they record their day-to-day emotional responses by painting layers of paint onto a primed board, the 'finished' board is then viewed in cross section under a microscope and photographed revealing a colour diary.

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