Treating damaged feathered can be tricky due to their structure, colour and shape. Recently I had the opportunity to trial using painted acrylic sheeting as a fill to minimise the appearance of damaged feathers on a Dhari headdress. Sections of clear acrylic sheets were cut to follow the outline of the feathers with the most
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
James Elwing ran this workshop at our premises in Lawson for the NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders, assisted by Jill Gurney. We announced it as ‘A Conservation split board re-backing workshop’. Students were to learn a method of re-backing case bindings to maintain the appearance of a case, while creating effectively an ersatz library binding
A significant QUT and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) collaboration to research the technical art history and conservation treatment of William Robinson’s paintings was begun in November 2014 with the two year appointment of paintings conservator, Sophie Theobald Clark to the project. William Robinson (b 1936) is a highly respected
The Leichhardt nameplate is the only known artefact from Ludwig Leichhardt’s lost 1848 Australian expedition with a corroborated provenance. David Hallam, senior conservator at the National Museum of Australia, discussed the scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plate as part of the Ludwig Leichhardt series held on 15 June 2007. Read the transcript or download the audio of David's
From the late Middle Ages until the early twentieth century, iron gall ink was the favoured writing and drawing ink in the western world. Most often used on paper or parchment (a writing material made from animal skin), it was indelible compared to earlier inks such as carbon, bistre and sepia. Its use ranged from
Workshop: Conservation of Transparent Paper Organised by Restauratoren Nederland, 6-9 October 2014 As soon as I saw this symposium and workshop advertised on the Cons Dist List, I knew ‘somebody’ from work had to go, so I put my hand up to do a presentation at the Symposium and applied for one of the eight
