Ethnography Group: Conserving Arctic Skins

Barbara Wills ACR

Organics Conservator, British Museum

Barbara Wills ACR is an Icon Accredited member. She has worked with the conservation of objects made from organic materials, in London at the British Museum, in Cambridge and on site in Africa and elsewhere. She has helped develop techniques, publishing and lecturing widely in the conservation of leather, human remains and basketry. Her two-year Clothworkers’ Foundation Conservation Research Fellowship (Safeguarding a body of evidence: researching and conserving a group of exceptional naturally-mummified Nilotic human remains) allowed time to further develop the treatment of complex human remains and help realise their potential

Sophie Rowe-Kancleris

Organics Conservator, British Museum

Sophie Rowe-Kancleris is an Organics conservator at the British Museum, where she has worked since 2016. She specialises in the conservation of World Culture collections, particularly those from the Americas, Oceania and Africa