The Conservator’s Portfolio

Annabelle F. Camp

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation

Annabelle Camp is an National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, specializing in Textiles with a minor in Organic Objects. Bellie graduated summa cum laude from the University of Delaware in 2019 with degrees in Art Conservation and Anthropology. She has completed internships at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Arizona State Museum, the Peabody Museum at Harvard, and the Winterthur Museum. She is currently an intern at the Abegg-Stiftung. Bellie is passionate about outreach and advocacy. She strives to make source community engagement and collaboration an integral part of her conservation practice.

Morgan Creed

Conservator, National Museum of the Royal Navy

Morgan is a Conservator at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN). She works on objects in the collection and cares for the historic ships held by the NMRN, such as HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and Holland I. Morgan has previously studied at the University of Lincoln and Cardiff University, where she completed placements at the Mary Rose Museum and Imperial War Museum: HMS Belfast. She has also worked for the National Trust and Newport Medieval Ship Project.

Diana Davis ACR

Head of Conservation, National Museum of the Royal Navy

Diana Davis, Head of Conservation, is an accredited large objects conservator, originally from Belfast. She leads the team that is responsible for the conservation and care of all of the National Museum of the Royal Navy's historic ships, aircraft and collections. She has previously worked for the Antarctic Heritage Trust, National Museums Scotland, the Science Museum and English Heritage.

Susan Maltby

Susan Maltby has a Masters of Art Conservation from Queen’s University specializing in artifact conservation and has been in the field for over 30 years. Her consulting firm was established in 1988 after having worked for the Canadian Conservation Institute for four years. Her firm offers a variety of services including artifact treatment, training seminars, collection surveys, advice on collections care and management, and conservation guidelines for exhibits, museums and heritage structures. Susan also teaches in the Museum Studies Program at the University of Toronto and the University of Victoria’s Cultural Resource Management Program.

Loredana Mannina

Conservation Manager, Historic Furniture and Decorative Arts, Houses of Parliament, London

Loredana is Conservation Manager for the Historic Furniture and Decorative Arts Collections of the Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Loredana is an accredited (Italy) and experienced practical conservator, equally adept at complex treatments of traditional objects and contemporary art. She has worked as senior conservator at a London-based private company, before taking the role within the UK Parliament’s Heritage Collections team in late 2019, moving from treatment conservation to preventive conservation and conservation management.

Throughout her training and career, she has extensively investigated and studied leather and related materials, in relation to the manufacture and production processes, conservation related issues and the artistic/historic value of leather objects in various Collection types. One artwork she created employing traditional Sicilian decorative techniques on leather is on permanent display at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alcamo: her birthplace.

Loredana is subject leader in leather Conservation for the students of the MSc in Conservation at the Università di Torino and visiting lecturer at University College London (UCL). Loredana is a member of the advisory Committee of the Tainam Art Museum of Taiwan and member of the committee advisory for the Leather Conservation Center of Northampton (LCC).