Writer, dyer, artist, curator and international lecturer
International lecturer, traveller, writer, dyer, artist and curator Jenny Balfour Paul, author of three books on indigo and many other publications, is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Exeter University, Fellow and former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, Royal Asiatic Society and Explorers Club, and immediate past President of UK's Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. Curating incudes being Consultant Curator for the Whitworth Art Gallery’s UK major 2017 touring exhibition ‘Indigo: a Blue to Dye For’; a partner in ‘Silk Road Connect’ for Yo Yo Ma’s 2009 Silk Road Connect Indigo Project; and consultant for documentary films and symposia including 'Indigo Sutra’ in Kolkata in 2017. Her collections are in major UK museums.
From Egyptian Mummies to blue jeans, learn more about the incredible impact of indigo. Graphic designers Patrick Thomas and Tony Brook are collaborating to discover more about how this unique colour has transformed culture within different contexts.
Together they talk with Jenny Balfour-Paul who has spent her career immersing herself in the subject. They will share this colourful journey showing the natural origin and source of the colour and sharing the history, influence on the textile production across different cultures, from the dye of denim and the wide array of colours it creates. Indigo will brighten and offer a new more enriched way of looking at the colours surrounding us, from clothes to interiors.
