Louise is an accredited Icon textile conservator who has run her own fully equipped and secure studio in South West London for more than 20 years.
From here, she undertakes remedial conservation on textile collections and individual objects belonging to museums, heritage organisations, private historic houses, collectors and owners of heirlooms. The objects range from simple two dimensional textiles to complex three dimensional objects involving mixed media. Her work includes the preparation of treatment proposals and estimates, textile condition surveys, and devising preventive conservation strategies. She readily sees clients to advise and guide on the best way to conserve, mount, store display and exhibit their objects.
Louise has freelanced for many of the London museums with permanent textile collections, working on the costume collection for the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of London. For nearly 20 years she has been textile conservation consultant for exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Art and the National Gallery and the Tate Galleries. She has spent many months/years working on the extensive textile collections at the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar (2004 – 2010) and at the National Museum, Qatar (2010 – 2019) prior to their opening. Louise continues to travel abroad as a conservation consultant, whilst also working in the tranquillity of her studio.
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