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Welcome to all Icon members from the Committee of the Icon Paintings Group. We have a regular programme of conferences and meetings spread throughout the year to which all members of Icon and the wider public are warmly invited.
A Presentation by Will Shank
Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Rescue Public Murals
A Program of Heritage Preservation
Acrylic paint has been used for painting on exterior walls for murals in the United States and elsewhere since the 1960s as a means of social expression. But until the formation of Rescue Public Murals in 2006 it was a little understood phenomenon. The rapid deterioration of outdoor contemporary murals has become a cause of concern in the worlds of both art history and social history. Rescue Public Murals, managed by Heritage Preservation in Washington, DC, has undertaken a nation-wide inventory of these murals in the United States. The program also serves as an advocacy group for endangered works, and as such it has paired conservators with artists and the communities who care about public murals, in an effort to understand and halt or slow the aging process of these large, but vulnerable, works of art. In addition, Rescue Public Murals offers advice, through its “Best Practices” web page, to muralists, building owners, and public art managers, about the latest thinking on materials and techniques of mural painting. It is hoped this multi-disciplinary approach will be applicable to a wide range of conservation challenges and disciplines.
Will Shank, co-founder and co-chair of Rescue Public Murals, has lectured and published widely on the special conservation needs of contemporary outdoor murals. He was trained at the Villa Schifanoia in Florence, at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, and at the Harvard University Art Museums. Formerly Chief Conservator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Will was a Fulbright Scholar and Getty Fellow in 1995 at Tate, where he undertook a study with Tate staff on the aging of 1960s color field paintings. His exhibition, “A Hidden Picasso” was presented at the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao during the 2004 I.I.C. Conference. During his time as the Booth Family Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, he held an honorary fellowship at ICCROM, where he researched world-wide policies on the care of modern and contemporary murals. In 2010 the American Institute for Conservation awarded him its Advocacy Award for distinguished achievement in conservation.
Doors open at 6pm talk begins at 6.30pm prompt. In the Grand Robbing Room at The Freemason’s Hall, 60 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5AZ. Close to both Covent Garden and Holborn Tube Stations.
Tickets: ICON members: £10, non- members: £15
Please register by sending your name and stating if you are an ICON member.
Your name must be on the security list no later than Friday, 26th April 2013
Free wine and cheese inc. in price of ticket
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or Clare Finn: 020 7937 1895
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Adhesives and Consolidants in Painting Conservation
Angelina Barros D'Sa, Lizzie Bone, , Rhiannon Clarricoates, Alexandra Gent (eds)
Standard UK Price: £32.50
Adhesives and consolidants used in the conservation of paintings (e.g. for lining, the laying down of paint flakes, the application of temporary facings etc), can have very varying properties at the time they are applied. Over time, and under differing conditions, some materials can present concerns for the conservator including brittleness, yellowing and discolouration and difficulty in removal.
The papers in this volume, presented at an ICON paintings group conference at the National Portrait Gallery, London, confront some of the problems encountered including: the practical application of materials; reversibility and long –term performance; the properties required of an adhesive and the properties of some of the materials commonly used as consolidants / adhesives.
ISBN: 9781904982883 Binding: Paperback Dimensions: 246 x 175 mm Price GBP 32.50
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