As December arrives a collective sigh goes up from conservation studios everywhere as we contemplate another year (almost) over and the incredible work we have achieved during the past 12 months… and confront the reality that there are only three more weeks to tie loose ends together and finish all those tasks on the ‘to-do’ […]
The AICCM Annual General Meeting was held at the National Portrait Gallery on 28th October. There was a good turnout and a new council was elected. The incoming council is a mix of old and new faces. We bid sad farewell to Vice President Anne Carter and Treasurer Adam Godijn who have stood down after […]
The Library’s talented team of book conservators including Steve Bell, Nicole Ellis and Guy Caron have recently completed treating the Incunabula collection of over 200 books. The collection consists of some of the world’s oldest and rarest printed books such as the Liber Chronicarum, known as the Nuremburg Chronicle, and the Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri, […]
Victoria National Gallery of Victoria Treatment projects In the conservation studio our conservators are hard at work bringing some long-term projects to completion: Carl Villis is coming to the last stages of his major treatment of Paolo Veronese’s Nobleman between and Active and Contemplative Life, a large Venetian canvas painted around 1570. Many years after […]
AICCM FRAME: Concept, History and Conservation National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne In August we held our first international frame symposium, generously hosted by the National Gallery of Victoria. The symposium was a joint meeting of the Conservation Framers and the Gilded Objects Conservation special interest groups so we attracted a good mix of delegates including […]
To be admitted to the AICCM Hall of Fame is a wonderful thing—a wonderful honour. It is a celebration, not simply a personal one, that acknowledges the many individuals who care about the things that make up our world. Of course caring for and about the material object is a starting point for a journey […]
Save the date The Canberra Craft Bookbinders guild are holding their 2017 conference, at the Ann Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra 25 – 27 March 2017. In association with this the Guild will be holding the 2017 Australian Contemporary Bookbinding Exhibition. Exhibition dates and venue are: 10th February till 28th March 2017, CraftACT Gallery, […]
Robyn Victory2016 Graduate, University of Canberra, B Heritage, Museums and Conservation AICCM SIG symposia are events that students and new graduates like myself revel in. They provide an opportunity to grab a snapshot of the expertise and activities present in our chosen specialisations, and move amongst those who have done it all. The 14th AICCM […]
Introduction Prue McKay, National Archives of Australia Most photograph conservators come to that specialism through the world of paper, so it’s probably safe to say that we are not experts when it comes to other materials such as metal and glass, and yet when dealing with early photography in particular, it is necessary to have […]