Student Conservators at Melbourne (SC@M) is the association for students studying at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (GCCMC) at The University of Melbourne. The past year has been very busy for the current SC@M Committee. We organised a number of professional networking and social events, and hosted presentations about work currently being undertaken
Welcome to the first in our new series of Meet a Conservator interviews! Over the coming months we will introduce you to some of the fantastic conservation professionals working in Australia and find out more about them and their work. If you’re an AICCM member and would like to take part in this series, please
Late last month, the AICCM National Council convened at the Australian Museum in Sydney to map out the future path of the organisation through its 2016-2020 Strategic Plan. As part of this process the National Council has revised the current Vision and Mission Statements to better reflect the key activities and aims of the organisation
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
National Archives of Australia Treatment Projects NAPF move NAA Conservation are currently preparing to move the entire contents of two repository buildings to our soon to be completed NAPF (National Archives Preservation Facility) currently being built at Vickers Street, Mitchell. Preservation staff have spent many weeks assessing and measuring collection items which require custom housing
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Exhibitions and Loans The Museums involved in The Museums Discovery Centre, MAAS, SLM and AM, will soon commence installation of approx. 4,000 objects into the refurbished display store. Conservation staff will be leading the project to coordinate, prepare and install objects. Suzanne Chee has been working towards a
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
Adele Barbara has generously volunteered to take on the development and editing of the AICCM Wiki, a long-planned project that will give AICCM members a place to share their extensive knowledge and capture some of that invaluable conservation know-how curently kept in people’s heads, notebooks and personal computers so that it isn’t lost as people
The AICCM Environmental Standards Committee is currently collecting case studies for the ICOM-CC Environmental Standards project that is being organised by Bill Wei. AICCM has offered its assistance, being well placed to provide a ‘southern hemisphere perspective’ on the international issue of environmental standards for loans. Case studies are required by the end of March