New Editorial Team Member I would like to say a big welcome from the AICCM National Council and membership to Rose Maurice, our new editor of the E-News! Rose is currently studying the Masters of Cultural Material Conservation at the University of Melbourne and has experience writing for publications such as Beat magazine. We look […]
On Friday the 25th May, members of the Tasmanian Division had a fascinating tour of the newly established Collection of Medical Artefacts (COMA) housed at the University of Tasmania’s residential college, Jane Franklin Hall. Dr Philip Thomson collected the medical artefacts over a period of about 25 years following a Churchill Fellowship in 1995 visiting […]
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, […]
Lately I’ve been thinking about sustainability in Conservation—what can I do to reduce our environmental footprint? One of the biggest non-recyclable products used in conservation are gloves; nitrile, vinyl, latex. That is, until recently. In Australia, we now have two options: TerraCycle and Green-Dex gloves. TerraCycle is a company that will collect your used disposable […]
About four or five years ago at a conference session on directions for conservation at a Museums conference in Sydney I found myself presenting after ICS Sydney Director, Julian Bickersteth. In his talk he described, rather than advocated, the shift in ambition for the conservation field since the start of his career. He characterised the […]
The Sustainable conservation program pilot program, funded through a NSW Government Community Heritage – Peak Body grant to AICCM, continues to build momentum. Developed in partnership with Bathurst Regional Council, the AICCM Emerging Conservators SIG, and the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre, the program provides work experience opportunities for students and emerging conservators. Amy Heffernan […]
I remember the moment I agreed to take on the Newsletter. It was at the National Council Face-to-Face meeting in 2012. Fiona Tennant from ICS had been editing the Newsletter for a long time (and doing a brilliant job!) and felt it was time to pass it on – new blood, new perspective and all […]
We all know someone amazing in conservation – now is your chance to celebrate that person’s talents and contributions by nominating them for an award. This year AICCM will be accepting nominations for six awards: The AICCM Medal Previously known as the AICCM Hall of Fame, this award recognises career long contributors to Conservation and […]
In March 12-14, 2018, I attended the Experts Meeting on the Cleaning of Wooden Gilded Surfaces hosted by The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), Los Angeles, CA, US. The meeting was by invitation only, so I was honoured to find myself in the group of twelve people from all over the world marked as ‘experts’ in […]
The Compensation for Loss in the Conservation of Photographic Materials workshop was held by the Foundation for the American Institute of Conservation at (the pilgrimage of choice for any photograph conservator) the George Eastman Museum, Rochester NY, April 2018. For what one would think to be a very concise topic the week was compact and […]