ACR Conference 2021

Julie Bon ACR

Head of Collections Care, National Library of Scotland

Julie Bon, ACR, joined the National Library of Scotland as Head of Collections Care in May 2019. She manages a team of Conservators, Technicians, Preservation Assistants, Registrar, Audit Officer and Interns based across two sites in Edinburgh. Qualifying with an MA Conservation of Historic Objects from the University of Lincoln in 2004, Julie held a number of project jobs before being appointed as a Regional Conservator for the National Trust for Scotland in 2006. In that role she delivered preventive conservation advice and project management across a number of historic properties and managed a nationwide project to deliver emergency response and salvage plans for over 50 historic sites with collections. She was accredited though Icon in 2013 and is a Accreditation mentor and assessor. She sits on Icon’s Accreditation Committee representing Conservation Management and Preventive Conservation and will begin a first term on the ARA Board later this year. She is a guest lecturer at the Centre for Textile Conservation at Glasgow University.

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Simon Cane ACR

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Peter J David Emeritus ACR

Having trained at West Dean, Peter became a freelance ceramic conservator/restorer in 1982 and has applied both his conservation skills and knowledge of ceramic history since this time. He has built longstanding working relationships, with clients from the public and private sectors, and has a national and international client base, with projects ranging from individual objects to whole collections, conservation surveys and redevelopment projects.

With skills ranging from the conservation and restoration of applied art objects, through to environment and project management, he has worked in both the Museum and private sectors in a freelance capacity.

Peter is a former winner of the Nigel Williams Prize (2014), for his joint project with Judy Pinkham ACR (National Museums of Wales) for the Conservation of Teresa Margoles’ ‘32 Aňos’.

With over 40 years of experience, he has seen developments and witnessed many of the changes in conservation and the way it is practiced over that time.

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Alexandra Gent ACR

Alex is a paintings conservator at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Prior to joining the NPG in 2018 she worked for the Wallace Collection, Tate, National Galleries of Scotland, English Heritage, as well as in private practice. At the Wallace Collection she co-curated the exhibition Joshua Reynolds, Experiments in Paint, and in 2019 she was awarded a doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art, for her thesis on Repetition and Replication in Joshua Reynolds’s Subject Pictures. Alex has been an accredited member of Icon since 2010 and is a mentor and CPD reader.

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Helen Hughes ACR

Helen Hughes ACR is an internationally recognised leader in the field of Architectural Paint Research and Historic Interiors Research.

Previously the Head of Historic Interiors Research & Conservation Unit at English Heritage, she presently runs and owns Historic Interiors Research & Conservation (HIRC) which helps owners of historic interiors listen to the stories layers and layers of old paint have to tell. Helen presents practical options for managing change in historic buildings and sharing conservation decisions, and also provide workshops and training courses for communities, conservation students and heritage professionals. Selected papers are available for download on her web-site: www.helenhughes-hirc.com

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Alison Lister ACR

Alison Lister, BA (Hons), DipCons, ACR, is a textile conservator working in private practice. Since 2006 she has been the owner and director of Textile Conservation Limited, an independent studio in Bristol. Alison trained at the Textile Conservation Centre, then worked at the Centre as a course tutor on the postgraduate diploma course for 10 years. She started in private practice as a freelance conservator and educator in 2001 undertaking short term museum-based contracts and working as an associate tutor on the conservation programmes at Camberwell College of Arts and the MA Museum Studies by Distance Learning at the University of Leicester.  Alison started a part time Professional Doctorate in Heritage at the University Hertfordshire in October 2020. 

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Ann-Marie Miller PG Dip, MA, ACR

Director, Codex Conservation

Ann-Marie studied Book & Paper Conservation at Camberwell College of Arts, graduating in 2001. After working as a freelance bookbinder and conservator, she worked for 7 years at the British Library, becoming an accredited member of Icon in 2007. In 2011 she set up a private workshop, Codex Conservation. 

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Zoë Miller ACR

Zoë Miller has worked at the British Library for 16 years, following completion of a Master's degree in Book Conservation at Camberwell, UAL and an internship at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. She has worked on manuscripts, printed collections and Eastern material among others, specialising in book conservation and now leads a conservation team who work across the BL's varied collection. In addition to developing and coaching interns and mentoring her team, she continues to carry out research to ensure best practice for the treatment of iron gall inks and develop techniques and decision-making in this complex area of conserving Library materials and to disseminate this to wider audiences.  

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Emily O’Reilly ACR

Emily graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 1995 with a BA(HONS) in Paper Conservation – specialising in works of art on paper. Since then, she has worked as a Paper Conservator at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, State Records of NSW, Australia and Museum Conservation Services Ltd in Duxford.

In 2017 Emily set up her own studio and started working as a freelance Paper Conservator. Clients include private individuals with one-off objects to collectors and dealers needing repeat work undertaken. Emily has also worked for the National Trust and other public organisations, carrying out surveys and large-scale practical treatments.

Operating a busy private practice, Emily has to juggle the treatment of objects beginning with quotations with the day-to-day operational business development tasks such as website and online social media presence.

 

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Catherine Rees

Catherine Rees is a professional coach, facilitator and trainer, working with individuals, teams and organisations. She has worked primarily as a leader in education for over 20 years, including being a Headteacher of two schools in Devon. She specialises in strengthening the resilience and wellbeing of individuals and building positive and purposeful teams, in which everyone has a voice and is valued for the unique qualities and skills they bring.

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Polly Saltmarsh ACR

Polly is an accredited paintings conservator working for the National Portrait Gallery, London alongside running her studio based in Cambridge.  After graduating from the University of Glasgow with a History if Art MA she completed her diploma in conservation at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Polly has worked in the Netherlands at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Arnhem and the Institute of Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam. In 2008 Polly joined the Making Art in Britain team at the National Portrait Gallery, a ground-breaking research project examining the materials and techniques used in Tudor portraiture. 

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Misa Tamura ACR

Misa Tamura is an object conservator specialising in organics material in world cultures, archaeology and social history collections. She currently works as the project conservator for the Talking Threads project at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK. She is also a member of Diversity and Inclusion Task&Finish group and the chair of Ethnographic Material group at ICON. 

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Ian Watson LLB, MA, ACR

Director, Sussex Conservation Consortium

Ian graduated from West Dean College of Arts and Conservation in 2011 with a distinction in Conservation Studies.  From 2011 to 2016 he worked in the Conservation Department at Lambeth Palace Library before moving to work full-time at Sussex Conservation Consortium Ltd, which he set up with Ruth Stevens in 2013. 

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Siân Wynn-Jones

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