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
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.
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
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
Art Gallery of New South Wales Social: Comings and goings of staff Barbara Dabrowa has temporarily left Gallery for working full-time at the State Library of NSW. In her secondment, the Frames Conservation team has been reunited with Sofia Lo Bianco, who will work on varied frame conservation projects until Basia’s return. In April-May 2018,
What first attracted you to conservation as a profession and how did you get started in the field? At high school I was interested in both arts and science. Mum suggested conservation to me - a parent at her school was a conservator at the National Gallery in Canberra, so she knew it was a
NSW State Library of NSW Exhibitions The branch has been busy preparing several loans recently, with work co-ordinated and overseen by Senior Conservator, Exhibitions and Loans, Helen Casey, and Conservator, Cath Bartley, along with Registrar Caroline Lorentz and Assistant Registrar Lauren Dalla. The creation of a large quantity of book supports, as well as the
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Exhibitions and Projects The 34th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) a highlight of the Australian cultural calendar has come to an end for another year. Bula’bula Arts art workers, Joy Burruna, Tolbert Dharramanba and Ross Dhapuruwuy came into MAGNT from Ramingining
NSW Art Gallery of New South Wales Paintings section Among the ongoing routine work of the gallery Celine de Courlon has been working on a major treatment of Dick Watkins “October” in preparation for the Field Show exhibition at NGV next year funded by conservation benefactors. She is also leading a studio project cleaning and consolidating Brett Whiteley's “Woman in
