These beautiful eighteenth-century carved and gilded panels from Ditchely Park in Oxfordshire had been moved in the 1950s from their original location to the then newly created Lecture Theatre at the house. At that time the backboards, which [...]
This multidisciplinary project, under the leadership of Prof Martina Ullmann of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, at the Egyptian Museum Cairo on the wall paintings from the Temple of Amenhotep III at Wadi es Sebua, was undertaken in [...]
The Chantry Library, the reference collection of conservation literature owned and managed by the Oxford Conservation Consortium, has introduced a series of subject bibliographies to its website, with the aim of providing curated information through key information sources [...]
At the end of November 2018 I was invited to attend the international conference on NANOmaterials for the RESToration of works of ART, (NANORESTART ), held at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. The conference marked the [...]
Two Saturdays ago a workshop on advanced imaging techniques was held at the Egypt Exploration Society in London. It was taught by Dr Kathryn Piquette, of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. The purpose of the workshop [...]
I have just completed a phase of conservation work at Magdalen College Oxford’s historic Dining Hall. I was asked to undertake the conservation treatment of three historically fascinating areas of C16th carved and painted panelling set within [...]
I have been excited recently to have the opportunity to peruse the Oxford-based Chantry Library https://chantrylibrary.org/how-to/. This an important reference collection of conservation literature which has been owned and managed by the Oxford Conservation Consortium since 2016, following [...]
A pioneering international conference on the use of gels in conservation was held in London last month. Its aim was to give a snapshot of current theory, research and practice on the use of gels for treatment processes [...]
The Gerda Henkel Foundation has started to publish the papers from the Conservation of Theban Tombs conference, on its L.I.S.A portal. The conference was held in Luxor in February 2016 - I spoke there about the ongoing conservation [...]
Last week, 25-29 April, was the 10th ICAANE conference, held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East) is a conference cycle organised by archaeologists from various [...]
