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May 20, 2025
Conservation Placement – Northumbria University TAGS: float mounting | indian paintings | Northumbria University | tasawir | v-hinge Lisa Mitchell, conservation placement student from Northumbria University, describes her experience of working at the CRC in this week’s blog post… Over the past two weeks I have had the …Continue reading →
A Passage to India – Part 2 TAGS: adhesive removal | gellan gel | indian paintings | rigid gel | tasawir In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator, Emily Hick, describes the next stage of conserving a collection of Indian paintings, and explains how she used a rigid gel to remove …Continue reading →
A Passage to India – Part 1 TAGS: conservation | indian paintings | tasawir In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator Emily, describes the first stage of conserving a collection of Indian portraits… I was recently asked to complete a condition report and treatment …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Documentation Challenges in Practice: Art Collection Barcoding Project
In this week’s blog, our Art Collection Documentation Assistant Gaby Cortes discusses some of the...
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...