- Date:
- Sunday, 1 September 2019
- Number:
- 147
In June 2019, the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) hosted a four-day intensive workshop to examine in detail the management of time-based media artworks in collections. The first day included a public symposium, which offered a larger number of interested professionals an overview of some of the key points of this challenging topic. […]
As Europe sweltered, the Kaman-based Japanese Institute for Anatolian Archaeology breathed a collective sigh of delight with temperatures in the high 20s rather than the high 30s, which made work in the field and in the un-conditioned conservation laboratories very pleasant. Experimental work on freshly excavated bronzes dating back to over 3,400 years BP showed […]
As part of the curriculum at the University of Melbourne’s Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation course, students are required to go out into the world and obtain work experience at heritage institutions across Australia. Here are a few updates on where some of our students have been and/or are going: Maite Robayo completed her three-week […]
Since starting my studies at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, I have been inspired by the partnership between Warmun Art Centre in the East Kimberley and the Grimwade Centre. This partnership began with flood relief in 2011. Since then, it has evolved into a relationship built on two-way knowledge transfer between Warmun Art […]
When the lab manager is away, the paper conservators come out to play. As Canberra plods through the depths of winter, the Heritage Lab was a hive of activity during the university’s semester break. In late May, Heritage and Conservation students were involved in a digitisation project together with the Canberra Museum and Gallery, digitising […]
The Victorian Division has been a little quiet on the event front recently, but that is because we are full swing into organising the 2019 National Conference. And we are excited about it! Registrations have opened, so come and hang out with us in November to discuss ‘Making Conservation’ – what excites you, what challenges […]
The AICCM community has held a number of events for ADFAS members recognising their generous support of discrete preservation projects such as the hanging of the John Coburn theatre curtains at Sydney Opera House, and for their ongoing support of professional development. These events included lectures and tours for ADFAS member events held at Sydney […]
The AICCM Sustainable Collections wiki will be up and ‘running’ by late September 2019 —although less running and more a ‘wiki-in-waiting’ until we complete the necessary upgrade to our website. But in preparation for the AICCM National Conference on 13–15 November, the Sustainable Collections Committee is keen to get as much content on-line to help […]
Despite this evolution in thinking about environmental guidelines, the ghost of ‘ideal conditions’ particularly 50% or 55% RH, remains implicitly if not explicitly in loan conditions, environmental targets, and policy.1 In my role as QAGOMA Head of Conservation & Registration I sign off on incoming loan agreements on a daily basis. In almost every agreement […]
Sabine Cotte’s book Mirka Mora: A life making art, published by Thames and Hudson Australia, was launched at Readings Bookshop, St Kilda, on 10 July 2019, and is generating good reviews. The book stems from Sabine’s PhD on Mirka Mora’s materials and techniques, awarded in 2017 from the University of Melbourne, and rewritten for a […]