Presentations from Anoxia and Microfading: The impact on Collection Care (12-13 September 2011) are now available online and can be
found at http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/1240387754001#media:/media/1240387754001/1240462743001&context:/channel/most-popular
Presentations include:
Keynote Speaker: Dr David Grattan
Former Manager of Conservation Research at Canadian Conservation
Institute, Ottawa
“Anoxia and Microfading: The Impact on Collection Care,
Context and Challenge”
Stephen Hackney
Senior Consultant for Conservation Science, Tate, London
“The Benefits of Sealed Enclosures for Works on Paper”
Zane Cunningham
Project Manager and Product Developer, Tate, London
“Designing Low Oxygen Frames”
Dr. Shin Maekawa
Senior Scientist, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
“Getty’s Oxygen-Free Display and Storage Cases”
Dr. Matija Strlic
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Sustainable Heritage, University College London
“Hypoxic Storage of Organic Materials: Paper, Ink, Parchment,
Photographs, Canvas”
Jacob Thomas
Research Assistant, Kinetics of Heterogeneous Reactions Group,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
“Early 20th Century Pastel Drawings: An Anoxic Case?”
David Thickett
Senior Conservation Scientist, English Heritage, London and
Salome Guggenheimer, Haute Ecole Suisse, Switzerland
“Oxygen and Archaeological Iron”
Chris Collins
Head of Conservation, Palaeontology Department, Natural History
Museum, London
“Reduced Oxygen Enclosures and Natural History and
Anthropological Materials”
Luisa Casella
Photograph Conservator, Harry Ransom Center, The University of
Texas at Austin
“Display of Original Autochrome Plates in Low-Oxygen
Enclosures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art”
Dr. Yvonne Shashoua
Senior Researcher, Department of Conservation, National Museum
of Denmark, Copenhagen
“Anoxic Storage of Polymers”
Bruce Ford,
Consultant Conservator and Scientist, Tate, London
“Microfading and Anoxic Enclosures”
Nicki Smith
Deputy Manager, Conservation, National Museum of Australia,
Canberra (with video from Guy Hanson, Senior Curator Guy Hanson,
National Museum of Australia)
“Into the Light: Lighting Guidelines at the National Museum
of Australia”
Dr. Mark Underhill
Analyst, Tate, London
“Oxygen Measurement”
Dr. Bertrand Lavedrine
Director, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des
Collections (CRCC-CNRS), Paris
“Development of Microfading Testing for Transmission
Measurement on Colour Transparencies”
Dr. Haida Liang
Reader in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
“Latest Developments on Portable Microfading Spectrometry at
Nottingham Trent University”
Dr. Julio M. del Hoyo-Melendez
Scientist, National Museum of Krakow
“Microfade Testing: A Promising Tool for Evaluating the Light
Fastness of Coloured Fabrics and the Impacts on Lighting
Policy”
Dr. Eric Hagan
Conservation Scientist, The Canadian Conservation Institute,
Ottawa
“An Overview of Current Light-Fastness Testing at the
Canadian Conservation Institute”
Plus:
A group discussion with Dr Shin Maekawa, Senior Scientist, The
Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles; Deborah Potter, Head
of Conservation, Collection, Tate, London and Nicki Smith,
Deputy Manager, Conservation, National Museum of Australia,
Canberra.
Roundtable discussion with panel: Bruce Ford, Consultant
Conservator and Scientist, Tate, London; Dr Eric Hagan,
Conservation Scientist, The Canadian Conservation Institute,
Ottawa; Dr Julio M del Hoyo-Melendez, Scientist, Laboratory of
Analysis and Nondestructive Investigation of Heritage Objects,
National Museum of Krakow; Dr Haida Liang, Reader in Physics,
Nottingham Trent University; Dr Bertrand Lavedrine, Director,
Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections
(CRCC-CNRS), Paris; Dr Han Neevel, Senior Conservation
Scientist, Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency, Amersfoort;
Boris Pretzel, Principal Scientist, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London.
A working session with George Gawlinski, Planning Together
Associates to build collaborations and explore the research
agenda.
The conference coincided with the culmination of a five-year Tate
research project funded by the Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills (BIS) Public Sector Research Exploitation Fund.
Dr. Pip Laurenson
Head of Collection Care Research
Tate
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
+44 207887 8776
+44 796606 2962