I graduated with a BA in Art History and Italian from the University of Leeds in 2004 and the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2010 with a Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings. I have been accredited with the Institute of Conservation (ICON) since 2016 and am a council member for the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers (BAPCR).
Since 2010 have worked as a paintings conservator for both public institutions and in private practice. As part of the Department of Conservation and Technology at the Courtauld I specialise in practical conservation of easel paintings and lecture in adhesion and cohesion as part of the Principles and Theory part of the MA Conservation of Easel Paintings course. I run practical workshops in adhesives and consolidants, tear mending and preventive conservation measures.
Publications include:
Vibration management for canvas paintings: a review of rigid stretcher insert systems, their materials and application in Current Technical Challenges in Painting Conservation, Angelina Barros D’Sa, Lizzie Bone, Rhiannon Clarricoates and Helen Dowding (eds), 2015, Archetype Publications.
Characterisation of surface whitening in twentieth-century European paintings at Dudmaston Hall, United Kingdom with Burnstock, A., de Groot, S., and van den Berg, K. J, International Council of Museums Conservation Committee 16th Triennial Conference, Lisbon, 2011, published by ICOM-CC.
