- Date:
- Friday, 15 December 2023
- Number:
- 162
Hello everyone. I am eagerly settling into the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) Executive Officer (EO) role. I work from a home-based office in Curtin, Canberra, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each week. Many of you would be aware that the new EO role is an AICCM initiative developed to […]
With the passing of Cathy Lillico-Thompson on 18 September 2023 we have lost an important player in the early development of the Australian conservation profession. Cathy, or Lillico as she was known to her many friends, was one of the initial wave of conservators who were inspired by the profession’s founding figures to explore a […]
Following on from the recommendations in the 1975 Piggot report, Colin Pearson was appointed to develop and run the first conservation training program in Australia. He arrived in Canberra in December 1977 and the first intake of students was in 1978—for both a two-year associate diploma and a two-year master’s degree. In 1979 I was […]
Scroll is a journal supported by the Student Conservators at Melbourne (SC@M). It is a platform for students and emerging heritage professionals to talk about cultural materials, their study and preservation. The editors invite AICCM members to download Scroll Vol. 3, which includes a foreword by Bella Lipson and Belle Williams, Co-Convenors, AICCM Emerging […]