ART CARE AND CONSERVATION

Location: Christchurch

Address: 25 Feldwick Drive, Kaiapoi 7630, Christchurch

Telephone 03-327 5045 or 027 6323476

Email address: art.care@xtra.co.nz

Skills and services offered:
The conservation treatment of works of art on paper: watercolours, drawings, prints, maps, archival material, photographs, ephemera.

We also give advice on the care and preservation of paper-based collections and preventive advice. 

Other professional experience:
1968-1973 Diploma from Lyceum of Fine arts, Wroclaw, Poland

1975-81 Assistant Conservator, State Workshops of Conservation of Cultural Properties in Poland (Wroclaw)

1984-1990 Conservation apprenticeship with Prudence Miller, Dunedin

1990 till now: art conservator in private practice, proprietor of Art Care and Conservation business since 1990.

Professional memberships:
Full member of the New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Material since 1984

Case Study:

Work on paper by E. Norman, before, during and after conservation treatment.

The same work after its acidic backing to which it had been affixed overall has been removed and the work has been deacidified.

Conservation treatment of the work complete.

Conservation of works of art on paper