Dr David Briggs is a classically-trained painter, art educator and researcher who has taught colour and painting classes since 1996 and has created online resources on colour for painters since the launch of his website The Dimensions of Colour in 2007. Many of his publications and presentations, which include a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour (2020), can be found here. David is Past President, Vice President, and NSW Division Chair of the Colour Society of Australia, Co-Chair of the International Colour Association (AIC) Study Group on Arts and Design and a committee member of the AIC/ISCC Colour Literacy Project and CIE Technical Committee 1-99. David has been teaching National Art School Short Courses continuously since 2011, before which he wrote and presented a NAS Art History and Theory undergraduate elective on the history of colour theory and practice.
David has also taught life drawing and artistic anatomy at the Julian Ashton Art School for 25 years (1996-2020), for Disney's Sydney studio (2000-2006), for National Art School Short Courses (2011-present), and for UTS Animation (2018-present).