Immerse yourself in history, art and culture at our popular Lunchtime Lectures. Doors open at 12.45. Lectures begin at 13.15 and last approximately one hour. Colours have always been used to express complex ideas and feelings, from the blue-cloaked Virgin in medieval devotional works to the visceral smears used by Howard Hodgkin. Some of these relationships are restricted to a time or place, while others are near universal and have their roots in the earliest human history. Kassia St Clair, design writer and author of 'The Secret Lives of Colour', tells the emotionally charged stories connected with three striking colours: hematite, shocking pink and chrome yellow. Kassia St Clair is a design journalist and author. She graduated from Bristol University with a first-class honours degree in history in 2007 and went on to do a masters degree at Oxford. There she wrote her dissertation on womens masquerade costumes during the eighteenth century and graduated with a distinction. She has since written about design and culture for publications including The Economist, House & Garden, Quartz and the New Statesman. She has had a column about colour in Elle Decoration since 2013, and is a former assistant books & arts editor for The Economist. Her first book, The Secret Lives of Colour, was published in the UK by John Murray in October 2016; it will be published in America in the autumn of 2017 and is being translated into six other languages.

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