Conservation Activities in Ireland II

Conference Bookings

To book a place please contact our Conference Booking Co-ordinator Roisin at roisinmiles@gmail.com or by post to: IPCRA, PO Box 9185, Dublin 4
Booking is essential, it is free of charge for IPCRA members, and guarantees you a place.

Programme

10-10.30 Registration & Tea/Coffee

• 10.30 -10.35 Introduction by an IPCRA Committee member
• 10.35-10.45 Opening Address by Fiona Ross, Director, National Library of Ireland

• 10.45- 11.10 Kill them All, Mass pest eradication in large collections, challenges and solutions
Sven Habermann (Conservation/Letterfrack)

• 11.10 -11.35 “Drapery Studies” by Francesco Primaticcio: Conservation and Discoveries.
Ewelina Bykuc & Ranson Davey (National Gallery of Ireland)
Short Break

• 11.45-12.15 Heritage Council of Ireland – Supporting Conservation
Beatrice Kelly (Heritage Council), Kristine Rose (Senior Conservator, Chester Beatty Library) & John Gillis (Senior Conservator, Trinity College Dublin)

• 12.15-12.30 The laser cleaning of a Ceramic Bronze Age Food Vessel
Lorna Barnes (The National Museum)

• 12.30-13.00 Preventive Conservation for the Kurdish Textile Museum Collection in storage in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.
Róisín Miles (Freelance Textile Conservator, Connemara West, Letterfrack)

13.00- 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00
• 14.00-14.30 The Conservation of Part of the 1911 Census
Zoë Reid & Marie Carré Hok (The National Archives of Ireland)

• 14.30-14.50 “Finn’s Hotel” Sign No.s 1-4 South Leinster Street Dublin2
Dr Lynda Mulvin, (Historic Buildings Consultant, School of Art History and Cultural Policy / UCD)

• 14.50- 15.25 The Eve of St. Agnes window by Harry Clarke. Conservation and preparation for exhibition
Phil Crook (Stain Glass Practitioner and conservator in private practice, Northumbria)

15.25-15.55 Coffee

16.00
• 16.00-16.20 The Conservation of reverse painting on glass Charles Steward Parnell
Damian Lizun (Museum Conservator of the South Tipperary County Museum)

• 16.20-16.40 Joint Tacketing, A Method of Board Re-Attachment
Raymond Jordan & Matthew Hatton (Chief Technical Officers, Conservation Department, Trinity College Dublin)

• 16.40-17.00 Bellotto, Ethics on Retouching and Reconstruction
Ele von Monschaw, National Gallery of Ireland

17.00 Closing and change of Venue

17.30 Wine Reception~ Venue TBC