National Gallery of Australia The Conservation Department at the National Gallery of Australia is in for a busy year preparing for the Gallery’s 40th birthday celebration. So far this year there has been a major focus on the collection, redevelopment of displays, and lending. The Conservation Department has been reworking the loan assessment
Australian Capital Territory National Gallery of Australia The Conservation Department at the National Gallery is back on-site after lockdown and into the swing of things with a busy program of loans, exhibitions, and travelling exhibitions. It is great to be on-site again, caring for the collection and seeing visitors in the building. The
Australian Capital Territory National Film and Sound Archive Staff changes There have been a number of movements within the NFSA over the past few months. Firstly, Danielle Hastie returned from a four-month secondment to National Museum of Australia (NMA) during February to June where she assisted with a variety of upcoming exhibitions, which
Australian Capital Territory University of Canberra Semester 1 has drawn to a close and we are settling in for the long chilly Canberra winter. We are all glad to be back learning in the Lab, especially the Commonwealth Supported Place cohort who had their first semester learning about the ins and outs of
Australian Capital Territory National Library of Australia The NLA Collection Care team has jumped headfirst into 2021, starting the year with a temporary relocation of our beloved lab for 12 months whilst the roof of the Library undergoes extensive works following the hailstorm of January 2020. Moving the lab was no easy feat,
ACT National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia reopened its doors to the public at the end of May 2020. The Conservation Department has been busy with changeovers, loans, and preparing works and spaces for the major exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, opening on 14 November
New South Wales Art Gallery NSW Working arrangements The Art Gallery of NSW reopened to the public in June and continues to forge ahead with a combination of rotating gallery and remote workdays. The paintings conservation team has settled into a strange new routine of working on- and off-site to reduce the
Australian Capital Territory National Archives of Australia Staff Changes Donna Wilks is with us from the National Museum of Australia until the end of the financial year. Her preventive conservation background has come in extremely handy. Stephen Willet returns to us after a year at the National Museum. It’s great to have him back. Unfortunately,
ACT National Gallery of Australia Objects The Objects Conservation team has been busy with the many overlapping projects currently going on at the gallery. Over the past few months they have been involved in the deinstallation of the old Asian Art gallery and installation of objects in the new space. Deinstallation involved moving some very
ACT National Gallery of Australia The Conservation department at the National Gallery of Australia has been persevering through the several natural disasters that have hit the ACT, including bushfire smoke and hail. Staff have devoted a lot of time to assessing the risk of smoke damage and undertaking research and analysis on the impact it
