- Date:
- Wednesday, 12 September 2018
- Number:
- 144
As part of the lead-up to the AICCM 10th Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium, the organising committee asked some conservators of note to reflect on how our profession and our work has changed over the years. What advice would you give to someone starting out now? These reflections and revisitations take the form of ‘letters to a […]
On the 24th and 25th of October, second year students of the Masters of Cultural Material Conservation gave presentations on their minor thesis research. The projects were diverse and thoroughly interesting. Below is a small selection of abstracts from the projects presented. Congratulations to everyone who presented and completed their minor thesis! Evaluating Value: Significance […]
In 2018, SC@M upped the ante to provide students with new workshops, excursions, a mentorship program, and of course the all-important biscuits for the tearoom. On top of that we held a number of social events promoting collegiality within the student cohort, and raised $750 for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in conjunction with our […]
The AICCM is saddened to hear of the passing of Margaret Dorothy Alexander, (known to many of us as Marg), on the 13th of November this year, aged 83. Marg was a long-standing, much respected, and popular member of the AICCM, remembered as much for her professional drive as for her good humour and generosity. […]
Registration is now open for the symposium, FRAME: Concept, History and Conservation: Symposium 2. The symposium will be held from 3-5 April at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Speakers from Australia, Austria, England, France, Germany, New Zealand, Poland and the United States will present thirty-two papers and six lightning talks. Numbers will be […]
The Arts Centre Melbourne (ACM) receives most of its acquisitions for the Australian Performing Arts Collection (APAC) through donation. In 2018 APAC received the donation of The Dame Joan Sutherland Costume Collection. This new acquisition from Opera Australia provides highlights from the celebrated career of Dame Joan Sutherland. The collection spans the breadth of Sutherland’s […]
Objects in museums are often defined by a neat little label bearing a list of adjectives: A name, an artist, a year, a medium and a donor. Perhaps augmenting this label is a more information on the artist or exhibition at the entrance of the space. Labels abound in the RSL LifeCare War Museum, but […]
The past two months I’ve been working with the Milingimbi Community preparing 58 bark paintings and 12 objects from their Milingimbi Educational and Cultural Association (MECA) collection for an exhibition Reinvigorating the MECA Collection next March at the Charles Darwin University Gallery. The MECA Collection is owned by the Milingimbi Community but held at the […]
AICCM related activities continue in Bathurst with support from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Bathurst Regional Council, and the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. Between 26 November and 1 December 2018, a team of students from the University of Melbourne engaged with the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) in the first documented […]
AICCM Awards In a lovely wrap up to the year, the annual AICCM awards ceremony was recently held at the Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. I would like to extend a big congratulations to the 2018 AICCM award winners. To find out who the winners were and to look at photographs from the ceremony, […]