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Thursday 10 October
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
The colour relationships we find most satisfying to the eye are not the result of personal opinion, but exist independently as patterns of intervals that can be clearly demonstrated on the colour-wheel. We recognise them, just as in music we recognise a harmonious arrangement of notes within a scale.
Renowned Australian artist and founder of the Flying Arts School, Merv Moriarty, outlines how to plot a mathematically correct pathway between any two colours – a discovery which has led not only to the ability to mix colours accurately, but also to determine harmonious colour relationships.
This is an amazing aesthetic breakthrough, providing new tools for designers, graphic artists, artists and anyone who works with colour.
Lunchbox/Soapbox
Sometimes there’s nothing better than a good rant. Every Thursday, the Wheeler Centre hosts an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, where writers and thinkers can have their say on the topics that won’t let them sleep at night.
Featuring some of our most compelling voices across just about every sector of human endeavour you can imagine, the themes dominating Lunchbox/Soapbox are proudly idiosyncratic. BYO lunch. Ideas provided.
Featuring
Merv Moriarty
Merv Moriarty has spent a lifetime committed to art and its teaching. Born in 1937 in northern NSW Moriarty’s work is represented in prominent Australian and international collections including the Queensland and New South Wales Art Galleries.
Moriarty has been a major prize winner and finalist and his career has spanned traditional realism through to abstract art and powerful figurative works. This figurative style, which focuses on the human body, has led to an ever-growing imposing and even confrontational body of work which continues to inspire comment and recognition.
While a great Australian artist in his own right, Moriarty’s true life calling has been the teaching of art. He founded the Flying Art School, first known as EastAus Art School – after gaining an unrestricted pilots licence in the early 1970s.
After a number of years running the Flying Art School, Moriarty moved on to head private art schools in Brisbane and Melbourne and is today considered by many as one of the best art educators in Australia.
Last year COLOUR: The Definitive Guide was launched at the National Library of Australia, by Andrew Sayers AO, now director National Museum of Australia.
His colour principles, researched with thousands of students and outlined in the book, have far-reaching application – for industry and for art and design – and consequences. Merv Moriarty says we need to balance logical and holistic thinking, in the arts, as in all human endeavours.