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
NSW Art Gallery NSW Paper The Paper Team has been working on a number of projects including the preparation of works for an exciting upcoming exhibition, Here we are, focusing on works of contemporary female artists within the collection. Analiese Treacy has also been busy preparing works for the upcoming 50 years of Kaldor exhibition
ACT Australian War Memorial After a very busy five-year period commemorating various First World War centenaries, the Australian War Memorial’s conservation staff are taking a moment to catch our collective breath and address all those routine jobs that have been neglected lately, before we plunge headlong into a major 10-year redevelopment of the Memorial’s main
NSW Art Gallery of New South Wales The time-based art conservation team, including conservators Asti Sherring and Carolyn Murphy, have been busy organising 'Towards a flexible future: managing time-based media artworks in collections', Tuesday 4th June – Friday 7th June 2019. The 4-day event includes a half-day symposium and 3.5-day workshop to forge greater understanding of
New South Wales Art Gallery of New South Wales Paper In preparation for the Brett Whiteley show ‘Drawing is everything’ opening at the AGNSW mid Dec, Analiese Treacy and Jonathan Dennis have been busy working through the 100+ works selected for display. This project has provided a great opportunity to look more closely at Whiteley’s drawing techniques and
The AICCM is saddened to hear of the passing of Margaret Dorothy Alexander, (known to many of us as Marg), on the 13th of November this year, aged 83. Marg was a long-standing, much respected, and popular member of the AICCM, remembered as much for her professional drive as for her good humour and generosity.
NSW Australian Museum Social Rebecca Barnott-Clement has sadly left the team to take up opportunities in other Conservation departments. Rebecca’s contribution to the Australian Museum Conservation department will be missed, and we wish her all the best! Rehan Scharenguivel has recently completed his Masters internship with us and now started working with the team as
