Dr David Briggs (PhD [Geology], U Qld, 1989) is a painter and teacher of life drawing, anatomy, painting and colour for painters, currently teaching at the National Art School (NAS) and the University of Technology, Sydney. His publications include a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour and his outreach websites The Dimensions of Colour and Colour Online. David is Past President, Vice President, and NSW Divisional Chair of the Colour Society of Australia, Co=Chair of the AIC Study Group on Arts and Design, and is a committee member of the AIC/ ISCC Colour Literacy Project. David has been teaching practical classes and workshops on colour for painters for 20 years and also wrote and presented a lecture course at NAS on the history of colour theory and practice (2009-2011). In 2018 he gave an account of his approach to colour education as an invited speaker and workshop presenter at the ISCC/AIC Munsell Centennial Symposium in Boston. His courses include an online short course on colour hosted by the National Art School, Sydney.
A listing of his publicly available writings, videos and other resources is available here.
