The Courtauld Institute of Art is delighted to be hosting the 42nd annual Gerry Hedley Symposium.
This yearly day-long event is held in memory of Gerry Hedley, a pioneer in art conservation and an inspiration to generations of students. The symposium is an opportunity for final-year students and interns to share their research with peers, professionals, and the wider field of art conservation.
This year, talks are anticipated from both paintings and paper conservators.
Students from conservation programmes at the Hamilton Kerr Institute (University of Cambridge), Northumbria University, and The Courtauld will present original research on a range of topics including scientific investigations, conservation ethics and international differences in training, as well as technical examinations of world-class artworks from the Renaissance to the 19th century.
We hope that presentations will invite discussion on some of the key challenges and areas of interest in the field of conservation today.
The Gerry Hedley Annual Symposium is organised annually in partnership with The Courtauld, the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and Northumbria University. This year it is organised by the Department of Conservation and the Research Forum at The Courtauld, and generously supported by Tru Vue.
Contributions from The Courtauld’s students:
Alexandra Earl, ‘A Technical Investigation into the Materials and Methods of Evelyn De Morgan’.
Talia Ratnavale, ‘A Practical Evaluation of ‘Pigment Pickup’ and Dirt Removal During the Surface Cleaning of A Range of Acrylic Paint Films with A Variety of Free-Liquids’.
Elisabeth Subal, ‘Evaluating four selected micro-imaging techniques for the examination of paint surfaces: a comparative study’.
Catherine Dussault, ‘David Morier: a Survey of the Materials and Techniques of a Series of British Military Portraits of Regimental Costume, Conducted From a Review of Modern Conservation Documentation’.
Sophia Boosalis, ‘Evaluating the Effects of Alkaline Reagents for Varnish Removal: Case Study’.
Megan Buchanan-Smith, ‘A Mysterious Coachman: A Comparative Analysis of the Materials and Techniques Used in a Set of Eighteenth-Century Servant Portraits at Erddig’.
Contributions from the Hamilton Kerr Institute’s students:
Rebekka Katajisto, ‘The Annunciation by Hendrick van Balen: Technical Study and Treatment of a 17th-century Painting on Stone’.
Grace An, ‘Adorations: A Technical Examination of Jacopo del Sellaio’s Virgin Adoring the Child and its Reconstructions‘.
Contributions from Northumbria University’s students:
Briege Thomas, ‘The tacit nature of inpainting: comparing portable spectrophotometry and colorimetry with human colour perception’.
Cecilia Wareborn, ‘The portrayal of patronage in eighteenth-century Britain: A technical study of two landscapes attributed to William Bell’.
Jay Evans-Wheeler, ‘Is the duty of care a duty to care?’
Louisa Stark, ‘An Exploration of the Role of the Easel Painting Conservator in Relation to Picture Frame Conservation Today’.
María José Navas Espinal, ‘Pigments – Binders – Alligatoring! The Study of Ageing Factors (light, moisture, heat) on Binding Materials using Madder & Alizarin Crimson Lake forming ‘bitumen craquelure’ in oil painting’.
Leina Taylor, ‘The Preservation of Advanced Manual Skills in British and Japanese Conservation Training Programmes and Practices’.
Joanna Hulin, ‘A Preliminary Investigation Into the Materials and Structures Used in Nineteenth-Century Western Playing Cards’.
