The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta reopened to the public this month, after a period of closure to assess and improve its environmental management systems: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/maltas-hypogeum-one-worlds-best-preserved-prehistoric-sites-reopens-public-180963397/. I was interested to see this having been involved in an environmental [...]
Looking back on the year one of the most interesting and professionally challenging projects to be involved in 2016, was the ICOM CIPEG Tutankhamun Shrine Project. I was invited to join the expert group coming to Cairo from the [...]
This autumn I have been involved in the wall paintings conservation project in the historic Stratford on Avon Guild Chapel for the Perry Lithgow Partnership. This follows on from the project at the adjoining Guildhall earlier this year Wall [...]
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 year at the British Museum's Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greece exhibition, one of the most outstanding pieces was the Apoxyomenos, see: The Croatian Apoxyomenos. It was a relatively recent find, discovered by a tourist diving [...]
As part of the 400 year anniversary events to mark Shakespeare's death, a major conservation and restoration project has been on going in the 15th century Guildhall in Stratford on Avon, with the restored building to open as [...]
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 [...]
These 1532 carved spandrels over the doorway leading to the Great Hall at Hampton Court were severely deteriorating. Carved from soft Reigate stone, they were powdering, blistering and delaminated and in danger of further loss of material. [...]
Having just been writing about the conservation of a 1940s Annunciation, Award Win For Lost Wall Paintings, I was reminded of a conservation project, for Tobit Curteis Associates, a couple of years ago on a 14th century [...]
The conservation project for Tobit Curties Associates, undertaken in late 2014, at St Martin's Church Bilborough, on the damaged and partially lost 1940s Evelyn Gibbs wall paintings, has won the 2015 SPAB John Betjeman Award. A little article [...]
