For the past four years, Bachelor of Heritage Conservation students at the University of Canberra have been getting hands-on experience conserving sculptures on campus, under the supervision of Dr Mona Soleymani. The impetus for the conservation treatment of the UC sculptures began after work on a rare 1960s prefabricated plastic and fibreglass ‘Futuro House’ in
Formalising the Grimwade Centre/Student Conservators for Timor-Leste partnership with CHART: A Report on Artifact Handover This year, students from the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (GCCMC) were formally introduced to ‘activist turned archivist’ John Waddingham, manager of the Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor Inc. (CHART Inc.) as part of a coursework subject
Cordless Backpack Vacuum Comparison Nilfisk GD5 v Pacvac Superpro Battery 700 To assist in the upcoming maintenance of the new Australian Museum: Wild Planet gallery, I decided to contact my good friends at Museum Victoria to steal their ideas on a good mobile vacuum cleaner. What are good friends in conservation for? Sarah Babister and Dani
Current students and recent graduates are invited to join Emerging Conservators Australia. We are a social group for new conservation professionals. Our wish is to provide a supportive space that fosters ongoing learning opportunities, continuity of friendship and a sense of identity by connecting students, graduates and new professionals with the emerging and established conservation
Uniques and Multiples—a Delegates View Can you imagine explaining a bespoke frame for three of Daguerre’s photographs at an international customs check point? Have there been any new revelations into the problematic preservation of chromogenic photographs? And is ‘Uniques’ actually a word? These issues and more were discussed with over 220 delegates from 36 countries
Saving the Now: Crossing Boundaries to Conserve Contemporary WorksIIC 2016 Congress Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, 12–16 September ‘The conservation of contemporary works is a complex discipline, partly because of the unusual materials that may have been used in their construction, and partly because of the need to balance conservation needs with the artist’s intent
Light | Colour | Structure National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 10-15 October 2016 The 9th Book Paper & Photograph Symposium was held over a full week in Canberra’s changeable spring weather. The first 3 days were given over to presentation of papers; this was followed by two days of workshops. The program opened with a
2016 has continued to be a busy one for events. In August Melbourne played host to the ‘Frame: Concept, History and Conservation’ symposium organised by the Conservation Framers and Gilded Objects SIGs under the wonderful guidance of Louise Bradley. October brought a busy time for Canberra as the Book and Paper SIG held their ‘Light,
Introduction Prue McKay, National Archives of Australia Most photograph conservators come to that specialism through the world of paper, so it’s probably safe to say that we are not experts when it comes to other materials such as metal and glass, and yet when dealing with early photography in particular, it is necessary to have
Resourcing of our National Collecting Institutions AICCM members outside Canberra may not know about the ongoing budget cuts being meted out to our national cultural institutions—the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Australian National Maritime Museum , National Museum of Australia, National Library of Australia, National Film and Sound Archive and National Archive of
