It has been a busy few months since the last e-News. We’ve had the national AGM, the launch of the 2023 Disaster Preparedness Calendar, three Exhibitions SIG webinars, the Preventive SIG workshop ‘Communicating Conservation’, and the announcement of the AICCM Awards and the ADFAS mid-career scholarships. You can read more about our wonderful award
International Conservation Services (ICS) Canberra Over recent months, a number of ICS team members have been working at Old Parliament House (OPH) in Canberra to complete a range of conservation projects associated with the fire remediation works. The central project was conservation work on the OPH doors, which have been painstakingly conserved and restored
Louise Lawson Masterclass held at the University of Melbourne Arts West building in August 2022: Image Hayley Nolle Louise Lawson, Head of Conservation at Tate, visited Melbourne in August 2022 as part of the ‘Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum’ research project. Tate is one of the project partners of the ARC-funded
Throughout 2022, I attended a suite of pattern-making courses in the Fashion, Sewing and Design department at the Centre for Adult Education (CAE) in Melbourne as a recipient of the 2021 AICCM & ADFAS Mid-career Scholarship, supported by the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (ADFAS) and the Patricia Robertson Fund. Background As a
2022 Zoom celebration of the AICCM Awards and ADFAS Scholars. In 2022, AICCM celebrated individuals and groups contributing to the conservation profession in Australia across five award categories, and announced the 2022 ADFAS mid-career scholars. On Tuesday 15 November, we ‘gathered’ together on Zoom for the announcement with AICCM President Alice Cannon
Scroll is a journal supported by the Student Conservators at Melbourne (SC@M) and a platform for cultural heritage students and alumni to express their ideas. The journal publishes essays, reviews, interviews, reports and works of creative expression. The editors invite AICCM members to download Volume 2 of Scroll, which includes a foreword by AICCM
The Book & Paper Special Interest Group has had a busy few months working on a number of projects. First and foremost, the convenors have been busy editing some fantastic papers for the upcoming Book & Paper Special Edition Bulletin, which we are hoping to publish to print in early 2023. This will be
Elwing and Gurney Archival is currently selling studio items that may be of interest to other conservators, particularly those who work with books and paper, and photography. A pdf list with pics will be sent on request: eg.archival@gmail.com A large wooden press for flattening and drying plans, 860mm x 1420mm, with 230mm maximum open
Natalie, Gerald and Monica ready to provide advice On Sunday 13 November the ACT Division of the AICCM held a Conservation Clinic at the Hall Heritage Centre. The Hall Heritage Centre used to be known as the Hall Schoolhouse Museum and is housed in the old school buildings, some of which date back
On 25 November 2022, a workshop dedicated to non-conservators was hosted at the Jervois Room at the State Library of South Australia by conservators from Artlab Australia. The workshop was a part of the AICCM Exhibitions SIG symposium ‘Exhibitions: Inclusive and Sustainable Practice’. The day consisted of a presentation on the preventive care of collections
