- Venue
- Catmose Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, February 29, 2008
- Ends
- Saturday, March 29, 2008
- Address
- Vale of Catmose College Cold Overton Road Oakham Rutland LE15 6NU
- Location
- East Midlands
Colour, Light and Mind: Five-hundred small paintings as a mural is the fourth in the series of Colour and Mind exhibitions. The first took place at the Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2004; the second, called Colour and Mind – Static and Dynamic was at the Richard Attenborough Centre/Leicester University, 2006; and the third, Colour, Love and Mind, was held at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, 2007. My main purpose with this ongoing project is to investigate colour, colour history and their relationship to observation, perception and memory – the three basic elements in modern colour theories. (Whereas there are specific theories for each, there is no universal theory which encompasses all three.) Colour has, in fact, been the main focus of my artistic practice in the past twenty-four years. I have been interested in colour in the past, i.e. art history; the global, cultural heritage; the future, i.e. science and technology; and the present, i.e. in my own experience, where I live and travel. For nearly thirty years, since I left my native country Iraq, I have lived in different countries and cultural environments. The observation – perception – memory framework has helped me to develop my own understanding of colour, colour history and the meanings of colour.
