Sydney Harry's paintings to be displayed at SDC Colour Experience
25 Oct '06
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THE FIRST major exhibition of the paintings of one of the country's leading colour theorists, Sydney Harry, goes on display at the SDC Colour Experience, Bradford, on 27 October 2006. The exhibition will be in two distinct sections:
Sydney Harry: 'The Early Years' Sydney Harry: 'Exploring Colour'
The exhibition, a lifetime's work, covers paintings from the 1920s to the 1980s and can be viewed by appointment. The exhibition runs until the end of December.
Born in Leeds in 1912, Sydney attended Leeds College of Art where he studied fine art, photography and woven textile design.
On leaving college he set up his own design and colour services studio in Leeds following which he was offered a full-time teaching post at Bradford College of Art where he became a senior lecturer in woven textile design and colour as well as photography.
In 1963, as a result of his work with woven textiles Sydney began to treat colour as a subject in its own right, experimenting with his colour theories both in weaving and gouache media.
He began lecturing outside of the Leeds and Bradford areas and became increasingly well known within colour circles resulting, through his friendship with WD Wright, professor of applied optics at Imperial College, London and founder member of The Colour Group of Great Britain, in him becoming a member of the group in 1968.
More lectures followed both nationally and internationally including in 1969 at the University of Stockholm where he presented a paper entitled, 'Optical Mixtures and Colour Shifts in Modern Painting and Design' at The Colour 69 AIC Congress.
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