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View fullsize Thrilled to have worked with Buxton Contemporary, helping them with the installation of their latest exhibition ‘Tony Clark: Unsculpted’! It was such a pleasure seeing the evolution of Tony Clark’s unique colour palette and motifs t
View fullsize Conservation isn’t always confined to the studio - sometimes you’ve got to put on the hi-vis and go out in the wild! 🫡🦺 We’ve been busy over the past month teaming up with Kyi Conservation to restore the iconic Keith Haring Mural
View fullsize Conserving a painting one thread at a time! 🪢 Robyn is currently meticulously repairing a hole in the canvas by extending and reweaving each individual thread under the microscope. It’s slow and delicate work - but so worth it to preserve the
View fullsize Conservation sometimes takes you to some hidden places in your own city! 👀 Today I’m up on the scaffold and working at a historic Victorian era house in Coburg close to the studio. We are helping to uncover these gold paintings in an archway t
View fullsize Have just spent an action packed week at the Getty’s Conserving Canvas Fusion 2 Workshop at AGNSW where we learned the single thread bonding technique to repair tears, cuts and losses in canvas paintings. All week we were taught by experts Petr
View fullsize Who knew working with goop could be so satisfying! Sometimes in conservation, it’s all about using specially crafted goops to help you get rid of unwanted goops! This canvas painting had thick layer of adhesive on the back from being previously
View fullsize Who would’ve thought we could find another use for the trusty milk crate? Adapted from its usual duties, we crafted this ingenious scaffold to support the detached central totem in place during conservation treatment of this ceramic sculpture.
View fullsize Did you know that we can offer more than just conservation treatments? We can help you with preparing custom archival solutions for your precious artworks. Take a peek at our recent project- a beautiful Samoan tapa cloth measuring over 4 metres wide!
View fullsize Currently restoring a broken ceramic sculpture, utilising the power of UV fluorescence! Layers of successive repairs and multiple adhesives used in the past can be unveiled, helping us to uncover what is original and what is an historic repair. All t
View fullsize Excited to share the recent conservation of a pair of Chinese lotus shoes. Teaming up with @tiakiobjectsconservation with their textiles expertise, Care Of Studios designed a custom made UV filtering display case to help preserve the object into the
View fullsize Conserving contemporary art often requires some creative solutions and lots of testing! We had the recent pleasure of looking at the meticulous surfaces of @nadinelangchristensen Nadine Christensen’s paintings up close. Crafting a treatment p
View fullsize Conservation and Cake with @studentconservators we had the great pleasure of @studiomvintageposters sharing their tissue lining process using the karibari drying board, a technique used to provide extra support for paper objects. We all definitely le