Richard Colson 

Richard has been working with computer systems for over twenty years and has exhibited his work at the Design Museum in London, the New York Digital Salon, and the Deluxe Arts Gallery and Watermans Arts Centre in London. Richard has had one-man shows at Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd. and at the Solomon Gallery, Dublin. His work is in collections at Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the House of Commons, the House of Lords and Pearson PLC.

His students have gone on to achieve at the highest level winning prizes at the D&AD (Design and Art Direction) student awards and contributing to the Takeaway Festival at the Science Museum, London.

organizer of
  • 3rd April '08 "FizziComputing – Physical Computing Workshop using Arduino" @ Thames Valley University
  • 13th-14th May '08 "Takeaway Festival of DIY Media (3)" @ Science Museum

    member of Node08@TVU

    TAKEAWAY Festival - Do It Yourself Media info

    a project by Anna Clark, Karel Dudesek (director), Richard Colson (director) and The Science Museum's Dana Centre (facilitator)
    in collaboration with Jim Wood (producer), Karel Dudesek (producer), Neal White (producer) and Richard Colson (producer)
    TAKEAWAY Festival - Do It Yourself Media
    This 3-day festival combines hands-on workshops, exhibitions, lectures and discussions.
  • 29th-31st March '06 "TAKEAWAY Festival - Do It Yourself Media" @ The Science Museum's Dana Centre
  • Takeaway Festival of DIY Media (3) info

    a project by Richard Colson
    in collaboration with alex tyrell
    The third Takeaway festival will continue to build on the momentum begun with the festivals in 2006 and 2007
    The Fundamentals of Digital Art info

    a project by Richard Colson (director)
    This book offers an introduction to the key elements of the digital art areas and is aimed at first year undergraduate students studying digital art and design, and those students of visual art subjects with an interest in digital media.
  • 18th March '08 "Book Launch and Panel, The Fundamentals of Digital Art by Richard Colson" @ ICA
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