This new award recognises a conservator, or group of conservators who have undertaken a conservation treatment that has significantly contributed to the conservation field, nationally or internationally and promoted the profession of conservation and its activities to the wider community. 2018 Museum Victoria’s Aboriginal Advancement League hearse reactivation team In mid 2017 Museums Victoria (MV)
2013 Outstanding Promotion of Conservators and Conservation (Institution award): National Museum of Australia The National Museum Australia has consistently recognised and valued the work of conservators by presenting exhibitions and public programs that showcase the important role of its conservation section. In the past year this has included: a special temporary exhibition, Museum Workshop:
This award recognises the unique skills brought by volunteers to the conservation of Australia’s cultural heritage and rewards volunteers who have made an outstanding contribution. The award encourages the two-way sharing of specialist skills between conservators and volunteers and acknowledges potential these relationships have to bridge identified skills gaps. 2016 Outstanding Volunteer Award Celeste Wing Young Awarded to
This award was sponsored by Professor Emeritus Colin Pearson to acknowledge an AICCM member or research team who has undertaken substantial research in the field of material conservation, and who has shared this information within the national and/or international material conservation profession via the AICCM Bulletin. 2018 Holly McGowan-Jackson, Senior Conservator of Frames and
This award recognises an AICCM member or institutional member who has contributed to the profession either over the long term or a single project by active involvement in delivering conservation seminars, workshops and other educational/learning opportunities; mentoring of other conservators; promotion of conservators and/or conservation within and beyond the profession by working with allied professions
This award, inaugurated in 1995, recognises and rewards individuals whose extraordinary efforts have directly contributed to the raising of standards in their workplace or within their conservation field. It is also awarded to people who have worked to promote the profession of conservation and its activities to the wider community and who have encouraged
Nominated by the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation or the University of Canberra, this award recognises outstanding coursework students studying conservation practice at a tertiary level in Australia who have contributed significantly to the activities of the AICCM and have begun to develop their careers by becoming actively involved in
This award, formally known as the AICCM Hall of Fame, recognises career long contributors to Conservation and acknowledges skills sharing across levels of seniority ensuring that skills are not lost from the profession. 2018 Dr Malgorzata Sawicki, Head of Frames Conservation, Art Gallery of NSW Over her 32 year
