Experience

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  Pace art conservation studios

  Jan 2003 - Dec 2003

  Oil paintings conservation technician

  • Conservation Technician Assistant, Pre-Program: Cleaning, loss repairs, infills, inpainting for oil paintings. Private Collections ∙ Bishop Museum ∙ Honolulu Museum of Arts ∙ Hawaii Preparatory Academy ∙ State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and Arts in Public Places Program.• Documentation: Written condition reports, treatment reports. Photography before / after conservation.

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  Lahaina restoration foundation

  Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

  Museum assistant

  • Working with the Museum Manager to create the first Digital Database for 4 Museum Collections: Developed protocols for photography, object and document handling, data entries. Created catalog records and entered in first computer database of the collections. Communicated with conservators for recommendations on preservation storage, conservation requirements, subsequent grant proposal.• Presented Visitors Tours: House of Printing Museum ∙ Baldwin Home Museum ∙ Wo Hing Temple

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  Honolulu museum of art

  Mar 2005 - Oct 2009

  East asian paintings conservator

  Conservation Staff member working alongside Chief Conservator Ephraim Jose. Conserved paintings on paper, silk, and cotton, from 13th – 20th century China, Himalayas, India, Japan, and Korea. • Conservation techniques: Traditional Japanese materials for complete remounting, washing, relining, silk borders. Treat stains, foxing on suction table. Support tears, infill losses. Construct new folding screen panels, paper hinges, karibari drying boards. Dye silks, papers. Join silk borders to conserved scroll paintings using hand tools and handmade papers. • Interdepartmental Communications: Condition Reports ∙Exhibit Preparation, Installation ∙Art Transport • Paintings Restored: Hanging Scrolls ∙ Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf Folding Screens ∙ Buddhist Paintings Indian Wall Hanging, Gouache on Cotton ∙ Batik Paintings ∙ Ukiyo-e ∙ Lithograph ∙ Silk Screen Print • Exhibit-Driven Conservation:“A Vision of the World”, from the Anna Rice Cooke Collection“Hokusai’s Summit: 36 Views of Mt. Fuji”, Restored scrolls of Mt. Fuji from Richard Lane Collection“Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late Edo to 20th Century Japan”, Terry Welch Collection“New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings, Calligraphy”, Fabian Collection“Richard Lane and the Floating World”, Conserved Bijinga (Beauty) and Edo period Scrolls• Travelling Exhibit: “The Dragon’s Gift: Sacred Arts of Bhutan” (details in catalogue) 2008-2011:Conserved 59 Bhutanese Buddhist Thangka paintings, couriered from temples in Bhutan, c. 16th – 20th Host Museums: Honolulu Museum ∙ New York Rubin Museum ∙ San Francisco Asian Art Museum ∙ Paris Musee Guimet ∙ Cologne Ostasiatische Kunst ∙ Zurich Reitburg ∙ Trongsa Museum Bhutan. • Educational Tours: Directors ∙ Asia Society ∙ Textile Conservators Society ∙ Government Officials• Public Talks: Conference Speaker 2009, Guimet Museum Paris. Art After Dark Event 2008, Honolulu. Show less

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  Gochang conservation institute of cultural properties

  Feb 2010 - Jul 2011

  Korean paintings conservator

  Sharpened expertise in unique Korean traditional painting materials, techniques, and language, while working with Song JeongJu and team conserving large scale Korean paintings of the 15th-20th centuries. Mastering subtle differences between Korean and other Asian mountings for folding screens, lacquer frames, panel paintings, sutra books, and large-scale scrolls. • Paintings Restored: Packaged for transport from temples to studio, conserved and Installed c. 15th-20th Buddhist Paintings, 10 metres tall ∙ Folding Screens, Hanging Scrolls, on silk, gold leaf, silver paper ∙ Sutra Books • Techniques: Conserved large scale paintings. Pigment consolidation, mold eradication, wax removal. Remove backing papers, support linings. Infill, inpaint losses. Antique mountings, Asian book binding. • Presented Workshops: ∙ 'Friction mounting for flattening book pages after washing', to the Directors of the Institute for Iranian Historical Studies ∙ 'Dyeing silks in traditional Indigo vats', to Paris-Sorbonne Conservators and Korean National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage. • Educational Tours: ∙ Head Curator, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Fine Arts • Factory visits: Silk, woodblock printmaking, and handmade mulberry papermaking factories.• Clients include : Busan Museum of Art ∙ Panjeon Hall, Bongeunsa Temple, Seoul ∙ Daegu Donghwasa Temple ∙ Haeinsa Temple ∙ Gyeonggi-do Provincial Museum ∙ Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Arts, Oregon ∙ Ojukheon Hanok Museum ∙ Unhaesa Temple, Gyongsangnam ∙ Yongju Buseoksa Temple, Jeollanam ∙ Private collections Show less

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  University of melbourne

  Jul 2011 - Jul 2012

  Master, conservation of cultural materials, graduated july 2012

  - Internship conducted at Art Gallery of New South Wales: Asian Paintings, Textiles & Objects Conservation Departments. Prepared large Indian Festival Painting, Chinese and Cambodian textiles, Tibetan Buddhist Cakravala painting, Tibetan Shaman's bone apron and headdress for exhibit: '100 Flowers: Recent Asian Acquisitions' 31 August 2011 - 15 January 2012. - Field Research in Bhutan while conserving Mongolian Buddhist Thangka paintings on silk from the collection of the Queen Grandmother, Ashi Khesang Choeden Wangchuk. - Field work: collections accessioning and conservation, ANZAC War Memorial Museum, Narrabeen, NSW. - Workshop participant, designing and constructing book supports for display and storage, State Library of Victoria Conservation Department.• Public Talks: "Silk Borders of East Asian Buddhist Paintings Conserved" AICCM National Conference, Adelaide September 2013. "Recent Conservation on Silk Thangka Paintings in the Collection of the Queen Grandmother of Bhutan" AICCM Event June 2012, State Library of New South Wales. "Conserving Traditional Korean Paintings" Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation Research Day 2012, University of Melbourne. Show less

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  Asian arts conservation, previously studio 204 art conservation

  Jul 2012 - now

  Conservator, asian paintings and works on paper

  Asian Paintings Conservation• Conservation and Remounting of Chinese and Japanese Hanging Scrolls and Folding Screens: ∙ 'Genji Monogatari' (Tales of Genji) 18th century 8-panel folding screen, minerals and gold on silk ∙ 'Cherry Blossoms at Yoshino' 17th Century 6-panel screen, ink and minerals on Gold leaf paper ∙ 'Mt. Fuji and Pine Trees' 19th Century 6-panel screen, ink and minerals on Silver leaf paper ∙ 'Cranes' 19th Century Japanese 6-panel screen, ink and minerals on white paper. ∙ 'Taima Mandala' 17th Century Japanese Buddhist hanging scroll, ink and colours on silk ∙ 'Light Green Mountain Landscape' 19th Century Chinese hanging scroll, ink and colours on silk ∙ 'Birds, Plum Blossoms' 20th Century Chinese hanging scroll, ink and colours on paper ∙ 'Magnificent Peacock' 20th Century Chinese hanging scroll by Zhang Shuqi• Conserving Works on Paper including: ∙ Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints series by artists including Shibata Zesshin, contemporary and antique ∙ 1800's - Contemporary Watercolours by Neville Cayley, RG Rivers, HC Simpson, ∙ Kenneth Rowell, gouaches on watercolour paper ∙ Arthur Boyd, River Bride Series limited edition print ∙ Pictorial Brisbane 1800's, Shallard & Co Printers ∙ Engravings: Cook’s Northern Voyages, 1700's ∙ Norman Lindsay, "Pan's Hour" 1931 engraving ∙ Queensland Pastoral Map, shellac paper on canvas and wooden roller ∙ Silk screen artist proof prints unique colourways by Banksy • Techniques: Foxing and tape removal ∙ Consolidation ∙ De-acidification washing ∙ Mend tears ∙ Repair broken paper hinges, panels, punctures ∙ Support linings ∙ flatten ∙ fill losses ∙ toning ∙ inpainting. • Clients Include: Art Galleries Brisbane, Bundaberg, Gold Coast, South Australia, Sydney, Melbourne ∙ Artis Pura Custom Framing ∙ Edo Arts Sydney ∙ Private Collections ∙ Queensland Art Gallery ∙ Queensland Government House ∙ Queensland State Archives Show less

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  State library of queensland

  Dec 2014 - Aug 2022

  Paper conservator

  Worked among a brilliant team of paper conservators from LACMA, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, and National Library of Australia. Conserving diverse collections of original artworks. Pith paper, scrolls, iron gall ink on paper and parchment, screen prints, drawings, maps, plans on paper / linen, photographs, watercolors.• Conduct conservation treatments, condition documentation, prepare collection items for exhibitions in accredited galleries and for external loans.• Advise staff, curators, collection managers, the public in preservation, storage, display, and handling practices. • Advise on packaging, supports, mounts, custom made housings, transit frames, crates, for safe transport.• Look after safe travel and return of collection items on loan to other arts institutions. • Float mount and hinge artworks. Fit works in standard framing. • Install works in gallery spaces in collaboration with Curators, Project Managers, & teams across SLQ. • Coordinate our team during installation and gallery changeovers, including external contractors.• Conserve and rotate displays for Treasures Wall, and Gallery spaces. Prepare and conserve collections for Exhibitions and Loans:Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery: The Photograph in Australia Government House, Parliament House, Supreme Court of Queensland Library, State Library of VictoriaMuseum of Brisbane: 100% Brisbane. View of Brisbane. William Bustard. Facing WWI: Loyalty, Loss, Love. Rockhampton and Ipswich Art Galleries: Forgotten Port City. Adventures of Bill Yaxley. Redlands Regional Art Gallery: Shilliam Sculpture LegacyToowoomba Regional Art Gallery: Grass Dukes and Shepherd KingsSLQ Exhibitions: Distant Lines ANZAC Centenary. Queensland Portraits. Art of the Skins. Tradition Now. Freedom Then, Freedom Now. Plantation Voices. Spoken. To The Islands. Meet Me At The Paragon. Big Voices. CutCopy. Entwined: Secret Lives of Plants. Show less

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  Balboa art conservation center

  Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

  Advanced mellon fellow

  Mid-career Advanced Fellowship. Analysis of San Diego Museum of Art's Edward Binney collection of Indian and Persian miniatures, using X-ray fluorescence and Infrared Reflectance spectrometry. Findings of Indian yellow, Emerald Green, metallic pigments, and underdrawings where artists changed the final rendition were presented in collaboration with SDMA Curators as part of exhibition education proposal for Getty PST Grant funding. Assisted Senior Conservator and trained Pre-Program Mellon Fellow.Conserved a series of antique film posters for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Conserved Japanese folding screens and panel paintings on silk, and Japanese battle maps handpainted on 15 sheets of joined mulberry paper. Show less

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  Preservation arts

  Jun 2022 - Oct 2023

  Paper conservator (maternity cover contract)

  Worked with an exceptionally talented team of paintings and sculpture conservators with diverse museum backgrounds. Collaborated on multi-disciplinary projects. Conservator responsible for Paper Conservation Department; condition documentation, treatment proposals, estimates, conservation of all types of artworks on paper at museum quality. Trained and supervised technicians and conservators from non-paper specialties on paper treatments. Served museums, galleries, and individual collectors.