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Balcormo House by an Unknown Artist (18th century)
Posted: October 26, 2020Complex structural and aesthetic treatment of a framed panel painting from a Private Collection. -
Rhayader War Memorial
Posted: October 12, 2020Rhayader Clock-tower - War Memorial -
Builth Wells War Memorial
Posted: October 12, 2020Builth Wells War Memorial - Powys -
Conserving the books in the Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford
Posted: October 5, 2020Stabilising the books in the Codrington Library began in 1990 and continues for 4 weeks annually, with an anticipated end date of 2028. A wide range of preventive conservation techniques is used, developed over the years in full consultation with library staff. The collection is an important historic research resource, in constant use, and techniques used have been devised to reflect this. The length of time over which this project has and continues to run enables comparison of conservation methodologies, for example the stability of treatments, such as paper repairs and leather consolidants, and the compatibility of the design of protective enclosures with long-term use. -
Edward Burne Jones ‘Adoration of the Magi’ Tapestry St Andrews Church in Roker in Sunderland
Posted: September 30, 2020This project includes examples of: Documentation including, Condition Reporting, producing a Final Treatment Report and Future Care Recommendations. Project management, Including managing a team of Conservators both in the studio and on-site Working in Collaboration Transportation and Logistics ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ a well-known tapestry, the design originally commissioned by John Prideaux Lightfoot the Rector of Exeter College in 1886, where both William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones were former students. Several versions were later commissioned including the tapestry in St Andrews Church, known as the Arts and Crafts Cathedral of the North and this is where I first viewed the tapestry in 2008 along with two William Morris carpets that are situated in the nave. -
Galkoff’s and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place, Liverpool
Posted: September 30, 2020The removal, conservation, fabrication of a bespoke mounting and installation system and installation at the Museum of Liverpool of Galkoff’s Jewish butcher's shop front. -
The First Emperor & the Terracotta Warriors, World Museum Liverpool
Posted: September 30, 2020On-site condition assessments of ceramic items in China and then their installation at World Museum Liverpool -
Conservation and cleaning of ‘The Millstream’ by John Constable, 1814
Posted: September 13, 2020The painting was barely visible through layers of dirt and varnish. -
Conservation and cleaning of a portrait of ‘Hyperion’, by Sir Alfred Munnings, in private ownership
Posted: September 13, 2020This C20th paining had never been cleaned. There was a heavy, blackish dirt layer, and an average amount of heavily discoloured varnish. Removal of the varnish enabled the blues and violet shades that Munnings liked to use to be seen, playing their part as they do in creating form, shadow and distance. [case-study-gallery] -
Conservation and cleaning : South Riding Landscape Rowland Suddaby (1912-1972) Oil/canvas.
Posted: September 13, 2020This landscape painting was torn, and suffering from flaking paint. It was covered in a heavy grime layer on top of a thin varnish. [case-study-gallery]