National Gallery of Victoria Treatment Projects In the Frames and Furniture Department Suzi Shaw undertook treatment to a large wooden sculpture Evidence of Origin made in the 1970s by Australian artist C. Elwyn Dennis, unusually coated in Asian red-pigmented lacquer. Affectionately known as ‘Big Red’, it required fills to losses in the wood and lacquered
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Graham Clegg on 2nd March 2016 at Crookwell District Hospital, aged 68 after a short battle with lymphoma. Graham was a long standing staff member (1992-2010) and respected colleague of those of us at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Within MAAS he
Artlab Australia Awards Artlab was awarded a Certificate of Commendation in the recent Self Insurers of South Australia (SISA) awards for the category: best work health and safety solution. Artlab’s submission focused on our innovative and unique engineering solutions that have been developed in consultation with ergonomist Jo Bills to redesign the work surfaces and equipment normally used in conservation
In December 2015 I travelled to South Korea for the Hanji Workshop for Foreign Paper Specialists. This event was hosted by the Korea Crafts and Design Foundation, a public institution of the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, with the aim of promoting traditional Korean paper to paper conservators. The KCDF has been actively
The IMAC award is an opportunity for one student from The University of Melbourne, Australia, to spend four weeks observing professionals working across the cultural collections, galleries, archives and museums of The University of Birmingham, UK. Interested students must submit and application for review and the short listed candidates are then required to give a
Welcome to the first National Newsletter eNews! It has been a long time in gestation, and as the last weeks have progressed somewhat slowly, an eternity in the birthing too. Being well past its due date, the eNews has swollen in size to that of a well-nourished neonate, and I apologise for delivering it so
National Library of Australia EXHIBITIONS This year at the National Library of Australia, Lisa Jeong-Reuss, our wonderful lab manager, has hit the ground running and done a fabulous job at organising the lab and keeping our troubles at bay, allowing the lab to run very smoothly. It has been very busy in the exhibitions department this
Sydney Artefact Conservation PROJECTS The team at Sydney Artefacts Conservation have had an interesting and diverse range of object treatments and collection management projects throughout September and October. Recent work includes the stabilisation and cleaning of the kinetic sculpture Proteron by Dennis Wilcox for the Museum of Contemporary Art and treatment of a selection of archaeological artefacts
National Gallery of Victoria PROJECTS Alex Voll has just commenced work on a large 18th Century figurative porcelain display under the supervision of Trude Ellingsen. Alex and Trude are currently immersed in a world of tiny broken and missing fingers, dirty faces and the legacy of dubious overpaint and repair campaigns from the past. Di Whittle has been working on
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office PROJECTS Conservation Officer, Gaynor Tollard has been busy with a new non-state deposit of photographs, from early cased images to contemporary “happy snaps”; removing them from frames where appropriate and rehousing and boxing them. The records deposited are an extensive collection describing a well-known farming family who introduced hop-growing to
