Save the date The Canberra Craft Bookbinders guild are holding their 2017 conference, at the Ann Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra 25 – 27 March 2017. In association with this the Guild will be holding the 2017 Australian Contemporary Bookbinding Exhibition. Exhibition dates and venue are: 10th February till 28th March 2017, CraftACT Gallery,
Robyn Victory2016 Graduate, University of Canberra, B Heritage, Museums and Conservation AICCM SIG symposia are events that students and new graduates like myself revel in. They provide an opportunity to grab a snapshot of the expertise and activities present in our chosen specialisations, and move amongst those who have done it all. The 14th AICCM
The Library’s talented team of book conservators including Steve Bell, Nicole Ellis and Guy Caron have recently completed treating the Incunabula collection of over 200 books. The collection consists of some of the world’s oldest and rarest printed books such as the Liber Chronicarum, known as the Nuremburg Chronicle, and the Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri,
Victoria National Gallery of Victoria Treatment projects In the conservation studio our conservators are hard at work bringing some long-term projects to completion: Carl Villis is coming to the last stages of his major treatment of Paolo Veronese’s Nobleman between and Active and Contemplative Life, a large Venetian canvas painted around 1570. Many years after
Student Conservators at Melbourne (SC@M) is the association for students studying at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (GCCMC) at The University of Melbourne. It’s the end of the year for the Cultural Materials Conservation program, which means that our students are busily finishing up their assignments, presenting their thesis or planning for
The Tasmanian Division held its Annual General Meeting in October 2016 at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. General business was covered in addition to the election of committee members for 2016-2017. Prior to the meeting, members attended a talk by Katrina Ross (QVMAG Friends Administration Officer and Project Officer Sydney Cove)
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
