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National Newsletter National Newsletter Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (Inc.) ISSN 1834-0598 No 124 March 2013 Contents 2 President’s Report 3 A new vision: redesigning the UC conservation course 5 University of Canberra update – a new laboratory 6 Marcelle Scott – an appreciation by two former students 6 Special Interest Group News 7 AICCM Bulletin Editor – Farewell to the old and welcome to the new 8 The ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference in Melbourne 2014 10 The Meaning of End of an era: Materials in Modern and Contemporary Art Marcelle Scott retires 13 Conference Report 14 Workshop Review from the CCMC 15 Course Review 16 The 2012 winners of the ADFAS/AICCM Marcelle Scott (CCMC) & Dr Ian MacLeod Prize for Conservation (WAM) at the Heritage Victoria Labs. Student of the Year Photo: Jane Walton student, CCMC 18 Christmas in the divisions Institutional News 20 NSW 24 ACT 24 SA 25 Vic 27 Trawling the Internet Photographic Conference, Objects SIG meets in Konservator Ken finds love Te Papa, Wellington Melbourne President’s Report President’s Report In early March, National Council met that Council can explore to further Other major events coming up soon are in Melbourne for our annual two day, the association. Creative Partnerships our National Conference – in Adelaide face-to-face meeting. We use these two Australia aims to be a ‘one-stop-shop’ in October this year. A very interesting days to develop a focus for the coming to promote, encourage and facilitate and challenging theme – Conservation year and to choose some projects that business, philanthropic and donor and Conservators in a Wider Context provide a balance – some that are support for the arts. Mary Jo and – which gives a lot of scope for some relatively easy to finish and some that myself will work closely with Creative exciting papers. are more of a challenge for a volunteer Partnerships Australia and its volunteers And in 2014 we are hosting ICOM-CC organisation such as ours (the ‘big, hairy, to develop strategies that can speed our in Melbourne. This is being organised audacious’ type, as Mary Jo calls them). work in critical areas of our strategic jointly with University of Melbourne Mary Jo Lelyveld is now National Vice plan. and AICCM, with Victorian members President, having stepped up into the Council also considered options of AICCM doing most of the heavy role when Vicki Humphrey had to regarding our website and decided to lifting – if anyone wants to volunteer to resign suddenly for personal reasons – go ahead with upgrading the site, using help please contact Susie Collis. and we are all grateful to her for being a new service provider. This will give prepared to make that commitment. So lots going on, and plenty of activity us better options for the website and to keep us all very busy. See you all in On the first day of the meeting, two address some of those niggling problems Adelaide in October, if not before. representatives of Creative Partnerships that have developed over the last few Australia (an amalgamation of the years. If you have any thoughts about Kay Söderlund Australia Business Arts Foundation what our website should look like or March 2013 and Artsupport Australia) addressed offer, please contact Michelle Berry. the meeting and presented options We welcome your contributions Advertising is accepted. Submissions for the newsletter to the newsletter, as well as Positions vacant any comments you may have. 1/2 page* $110 inc. GST Deadlines for submissions are: 25 February, 25 April, 25 June, Commercial 25 August and 1/2 page* $220 inc. GST 25 October. full page# $300 inc. 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It is the responsibility of authors to Thank you ensure content has been approved by appropriate parties, prior to submission to the Editors. 2 AICCM National Newsletter A new vision: redesigning the UC conservation course A new vision: redesigning the UC conservation course A phoenix with problems reckoned to be necessary to break even, a graduate would understand how The conservation course at the and below this number the unit must to work safely in a laboratory or on- University of Canberra was closed either receive funding from elsewhere or site, how to observe carefully and 2 down in 2003 in the face of furious be cancelled. document what they saw, and how to handle and move objects safely. Such industry opposition. In 2009 it rose The University of Canberra needed a a graduate would understand the basic again like the proverbial phoenix, but course that was sustainable from both a formation, structure and mechanisms with a new structure that depended teaching and a financial point of view, of deterioration of a broad range of heavily on teaching input from heritage and to achieve this David Hallam and materials, and have a good working institutions in Canberra. myself were invited in 2011 to assist the knowledge of how different materials staff at UC to redesign the conservation The institutions involved in this respond to different interventions. course. new course rose to the challenge and They would have good hand-skills provided some truly excellent and and be able to use the typical range dedicated teaching. Teaching, however, A new vision of tools and equipment found in is not the core business of collecting When David and I began to think about conservation laboratories competently and exhibiting institutions and it can the way conservation was taught we and safely. They would be familiar be politically difficult to argue that began to wonder whether the traditional with the principles of scientific teaching should take priority over the model of teaching conservation through reasoning and analysis, and understand urgent needs of the next big exhibition the major specialisations of paper, the fundamentals of preventive or collection management project. textiles, paintings and objects was really conservation and risk management. Each unit taught through an institution that useful at an undergraduate level. They would understand the importance also became a “placement”, which Not only did it divide the student body of values and significance in created a major administrative burden into tiny (unviable) specialist classes, determining an appropriate treatment as each student had to take multiple it divided what the students learnt for an object. And most important placements. Finally, and perhaps most into silos of knowledge and expertise. of all they would understand how to significantly, the traditional model of Many students also commented that, as proceed with care when treating an teaching in the four key specialisations beginners in the world of conservation, object, and how to recognise the points of paper, textiles, objects and paintings they felt called upon to decide on where they needed to stop and ask for split the already small student body an area of specialisation before they advice and assistance. A graduate such into tiny class sizes that were not were ready to do so, and regretted that as this would be an easy person to have economically viable. they had not had the opportunity to in a team, fully equipped with a general The viability issue is a worldwide experience working on more diverse skill set, self-pacing, and ready to absorb problem, as universities and other types of material and objects before specialist knowledge as required. teaching institutions are pushed to making that choice. Furthermore, a operate on a cost recovery basis. The degree at undergraduate level should A new curriculum provide a good, general education near demise of the Textile Conservation Armed with this idea, and with close rather than highly specialised skills, Centre (TCC) in the UK shows the co-operation from Tracy Ireland and and it should include a solid grounding vulnerability of courses that have John Greenwood at UC, we set about in the intellectual and ethical debates low student numbers and high costs, designing a course that would provide of the wider world of heritage, which no matter how good their reputation these skills. The course we have ultimately form the context – and or how excellent the skills of their designed provides core conservation 1 the boundaries – for the practice of graduates. The recent upheavals at the knowledge through five themed units conservation.3 ANU School of Music have also shown – Materials in Heritage Conservation, that it is not a problem restricted to We began to look at the concepts and Preventive Conservation, Dirt and conservation.
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