Welcome to the first AICCM e-News for 2023, which is also the year of AICCM’s 50th anniversary. The Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (ICCM, later AICCM) first met in Perth in 1973. Attendees came from across Australia and from as far afield as Dunedin, New Zealand, and Port Moresby in Papua New
National Gallery of Australia The Objects Conservation team has been preparing works for several concurrent upcoming exhibitions including Haegue Yang: Changing From From to From and Ngura Pulka – Epic Country. Kim Goldsmith is currently in Adelaide deinstalling Yayoi Kusama’s The Spirts of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens at the Art Gallery of
Introduction In 2022 I completed a two-week placement in the painting conservation lab at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) with Senior Painting Conservator Jenny O’Connell. This professional development activity was made possible by the ADFAS Armidale mid-career scholarship I received in 2021. The scholarship provided a two-way learning opportunity with the team at
‘The Bench and Beyond’, AICCM Bulletin – Book and Paper Special Edition. The year 2023 is a big one for AICCM as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. To mark this significant occasion, the AICCM Bulletin will be publishing a special volume, ‘Cultural materials conservation: Self, systems and society’, with guest editors Nicole Tse,
Scroll is a journal supported by the Student Conservators at Melbourne (SC@M) at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne. It is a platform for emerging professionals from various disciplines to share their ideas, projects and passions in the area of cultural materials conservation. We are looking for content to fit in
This article outlines the treatment steps taken to infill and inpaint losses to the extruded polystyrene (XPS) face and upper torso of the figurative sculpture entitled Waiting for another game by the contemporary artist Huma Bhabha. Description Waiting for another game is a three-metre tall sculpture. The figure has four faces and the upper body
Alysha Redston, Time-Based Media Conservator at the National Gallery of Australia, featuring: Rebecca Horn, Les Amants [The lovers], 1991, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2020 © Rebecca Horn Could you talk about how you have moved from more traditional areas of specialisation (paintings/objects) to now time-based media? I completed my Master
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