Pathway Event 2022

Sarah Peek ACR

Director, Sarah Peek Conservation

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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.

Olympia Diamond ACR

A a paintings conservator at Julia Nagle Conservation. She completed the Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2014. During this time, she was a Research Associate Scholar for the Courtauld Gallery and began investigating the treatment of water stains on acrylic paintings, leading to a publication and presentation at the AIC Conference in Chicago in 2017. Since qualifying Olympia has worked for the Guildhall Art Gallery and English Heritage. Before joining JNC Olympia was Assistant Paintings Conservator at the National Museums Liverpool, where she led the conservation treatment and technical investigation of the Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) altarpiece, Virgin and Child in Glory, c. 1673 and its related oil sketch.

Cecilia Oliver ACR

I am Textile Conservator at the Bowes Museum in County Durham with a specialist interest in costume mounting and developing acrylic mannequins although the collection includes the Blackborne lace collection and extensive quilt collection from the North East. In addition I supervise two ICON/HLF funded interns each year. Previously I worked on a project called From the Golden Age to the Digital Age: Modelling and Monitoring Historic Tapestries. I trained at the Centre for Textile Conservation (CTC) at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 2015 and then worked on the mounting for the permanent fashion gallery at National Museums Scotland.

Previously I studied Classics at University College London and became very interested in Reception Theory which I’m sure will inform some of my interpretations throughout the next 3 years. I’m also planning on doing a couple of little side project, looking at the preservation of performance costume and when art becomes heritage.

Catherine Allison

Apart from a couple of stints working client-side at Travelex and Shell in the Global Brand & Communications department, the majority of Catherine’s working life has been spent agency-side in client services and business development roles. She is passionate about helping agency teams and individuals improve their presentation and communication skills as she believes this can help an agency have that much needed edge over the competition and ultimately win them more business.

As well as her agency career, Catherine has a background in acting and was fortunate enough to learn from directors and actors such as Paul King, Cal McCrystal, Phil Wilmott and Toby Jones. She draws on her work in the theatre and her extensive voiceover experience to give agency staff useful tools and techniques for effective communication and powerful presentations.

Catherine continues to work as an agency marketing and business development consultant, maintaining an insight into the trials and tribulations of agency life.

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