Drawing upon such subjective psycho-physiological phenomena as grapheme colour synesthesia, and the bouba/kiki effect, The Shape of Colour is a workshop in which the intuitive and projected sensory links which many people inadvertently associate with colour are explored and investigated. Here, we will create a miniature colour lexicon in the form of a ‘shape glossary’ as a means to approach the epistemology of colour as a multi-sensorial enterprise: acknowledging hypothetical linguistic and non-visual attributes alongside abstract form as a means of characterizing and categorizing colour. In the spirit of playfulness, participants will navigate a series of experimental propositions which posit language, sound, texture, and shape as apt co-descriptors of chroma. The workshop will be playful and lighthearted while endeavouring to illuminate an appreciation for the subconscious associations which are frequently made between a given colour with things not implicitly related to that colour.

Participants will require the colour medium of their choosing: any fast-drying paint such as gouache, water colour, acrylic, coloured pencil, or coloured paper (in a range of colours), along with a writing tool, and paper/sketchbook, and a scissor in order to cut out shapes.

• This workshop will take place in-person at OCADU on Monday, June 13th
• Room 554, OCADU