Ceramics & Glass Group: Presentation Re Imagined

Felicity Bolton ACR

Objects Conservator, National Trust, Royal Oak Conservation Studio

Felicity Bolton graduated from De Montfort University, (now Lincoln University) Lincoln in 1998 with a BA (hons) in Conservation and Restoration and is ICON accredited in Objects/Natural science conservation.

Her career as a Ceramics and glass conservator started with an internship at the Liverpool Conservation Centre, National Museums and Galleries in 1999. Following this she worked at the British Museum specialising in the conservation of ceramics and glass, where her primary focus was the treatment of archaeological Greek and Roman glass. She later moved to the Palaeontology Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum in London where she continued to work with fragile glass, treating a collection of Blaschka 19th Century scientific glass models, composed of both organic and inorganic materials.

In pursuit of her other conservation interest in the natural sciences Felicity has worked at several national and international museums, including the Science Museum, London, The Horniman Museum and Gardens, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, and the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL. In January 2017 Felicity moved to New Zealand to work as an Objects Conservator at Auckland War Memorial Museum, as the Project Conservator for Relocations and in 2019 returned to the UK and joined the National Trust as the Objects Conservator at the Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio.

Rosalind Hodges ACR

Ros is a Ceramics Conservator with 30 years of experience in the independent sector who gained her Icon Accreditation in June 2021. She is currently the Chair of the Ceramics & Glass Group Committee.

Her conservation practice is based in East Sussex, where she works on Ceramics, Glass, and Related Materials for a wide range of clients including private individuals, collectors, dealers, local Museums, and Heritage Bodies such as The National Trust and the Dean and Chapter, Westminster Abbey. Her special interests include assessing objects and preparing them for travel prior to exhibitions and training house staff in the care of ceramics and damage prevention. Before embarking on a career in conservation she was responsible for organising medical conferences at The Wellcome Foundation.

Tiago Oliveira ACR

Freelance Ceramics Conservator, Tiago Oliveira Conservation

Tiago has set up his conservation business in London in 2015. His clients are museums, art galleries, collectors, the Trade and colleagues from other specialisms. Recent projects include freelance work for The Courtauld Institute and The Wallace Collection in London, the National Monuments Institute in Portugal and the Federal Monuments of Austria in Salzburg. He holds an MA, specialising in ceramics and related materials, from West Dean College since 2012 and a BA in Conservation and Restoration from Portugal's universidade católica since 2006. His main interests are the conservation of architectural ceramics and historical glass objects. In 2022 Tiago gained his Icon Accreditation in Ceramics Conservation and in 2023 he was awarded the Nigel Williams Prize along with his colleague Inês Feliciano.