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Mary Bustin

Conservation

Publications:
Edited with Tom Caley, Alternatives to Lining: Preprints of UKIC Paintings Section Conference, Tate Britain, September 2003.
Editor of Paintings Section of Conservation News, UKIC 2000-4.
Co-organiser of workshop on Thread-by-Thread Tear Repair, given by Professor Winfried Heiber, UKIC Paintings Section, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, December 2002.

Other:
Co-organiser of Alternatives to Lining conference, UKIC Paintings Section with BAPCR, Tate Britain, September 2003.
Contributor to Ethics and Aesthetics in the Treatment of Modern Paintings, annual study day, University College, London, 2002-3.
Member of Paintings Section Committee, UKIC; assessor for PACR Accreditation Scheme.

Current projects:
Essay on Gwen John's painting technique in Gwen John and Augustus John, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain (2004); Mark Rothko Seagram Murals publication and display, Tate Modern (2005); web editor of Paintings Section, UKIC.

Rosie Freemantle

Conservation

Lectures:
'Who's Looking After This Thing? Unusual items for a Paper Conservator', AICCM Symposium, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, April 2002.
'Glazing Over: A Review of Different Types of Glazing for Exhibition Loans', Part and Parcel of the Job: Planning, Packing and Transporting Loans for Exhibition conference, British Museum London, May 2002.
'Glazing Options for Works of Art on Paper', Exhibiting Archival and Library Materials and Works of Art on Paper, (paper given by Piers Townshend) Ljubljana, June 2003.

Stephen Hackney

Conservation

Publications:
With Jacqueline Ridge and Joyce Townsend, 'Pre-Raphaelite Technique and its Consequences', in R. Vontobel (ed.), ICOM Committee for Conservation 12th Triennial Meeting Preprints, 2002, pp.426-31.
'Relining, Lining, Delining', Alternatives to Lining: Preprints of UKIC Paintings Section Conference, Tate Britain, September 2003.
Contribution to Caroline Villers (ed.), Lining Paintings: Papers from the Greenwich Conference on Lining Paintings, Archetype Publications, 2003.
Edited with Joyce Townsend and Jacqueline Ridge, Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques, Tate Publishing, London 2004, 208pp., including, with Joyce Townsend and Jacqueline Ridge, 'Background, Training and Influences', 'Pre-Raphaelite Methods and Materials', and 'The Paintings', pp.21-8, 51-76, 77-189.

Lectures:
'Anoxic Display Environments', Lighting Old Master Drawings seminar, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, October 2002.
'Chemical Deterioration of Paintings', Courtauld Institute of Art, Paintings Conservation Course, 2002, 2003.
'The Effects of Air Conditioning on Dust Deposition in Museums', Indoor Air Quality Group, University of East Anglia, Norwich, April 2003.
'Relining, Lining, Delining', keynote lecture, Alternatives to Lining conference, UKIC, 2003.
'Whistler's Painting Technique', Whistler Centenary Conference, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, September 2003.

Other:
Member of Board of Studies, External Examiner, Courtauld Institute of Art, Paintings Conservation Course; member of ICOM Committee for Conservation; member of Preprints committee 2002; membership secretary of Institute of Conservation Science.

Current projects:
Overseeing anoxic display environments research project; technical entries for catalogue of works by Camden Town Group artists; improvements to transportation of paintings.

David Jones

Conservation

Lectures:
Lectures at Conservation Technicians Workshop, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2002.

Rica Jones

Conservation

Publications:
'A Note on the Techniques of Painting found in Gheeraerts's Portraits in the Tate Collection', in Karen Hearn, Marcus Gheeraerts II: Elizabethan Artist In Focus, Tate Publishing, London 2002, pp.53-9.
With Martin Postle, 'Gainsborough in his Painting-Room', in Martin Myrone and Mark Rosenthal (eds.), Gainsborough, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, 2002, pp.29-38.

Lectures:
'Conservation Practice at the Tate', NADFAS, Goring on Thames, September 2002.
'Techniques of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Britain', Courtauld Institute of Art and the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, November 2002, 2003.

Current projects:
Technical examination of Tudor and Stuart paintings for catalogue of Tate's collection.

Pip Laurenson

Conservation

Lectures:
'Considering Risk and Management in the Conservation of Time-Based Media Works of Art', AAM Annual Meeting and Museum Expo 2002.
Talk, Institute Research Seminar, Institute of Archaeology, London, February 2003.
'Electronic Media Conservation at Tate', panel discussion, '404 Object Not Found. What Remains of Media Art?', Dortmund, June 2003.
'Conservation and Management of Digital Works of Art', Capturing Unstable Media meeting, July 2003.
'The Museum in the Digital Age: The Conservation of Contemporary Art and Time-Based Media', The Role of the Museum in the Digital Age, Tate Modern, February 2004.

Other:
Consultant for 'PLAYBACK: Preserving Analog Video', DVD produced by Bay Area Video Coalition 2002; University College London Research Student.

Current projects:
Teaching for the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at The Tisch School of the Arts, NYU (2004); co-ordinator of Media Matters: Collaborating Towards the Care of Time-Based Media Works of Art, project organised with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York and the New Art Trust (2004); Installation Art Project, a three-year collaborative project between 5 European museums funded by Culture 2000; paper 'Michael Craig-Martin's "Becoming": A Conservation Case Study of a Digital Work of Art' for American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting, Portland June 2004; article 'The Management of Display Equipment In Time-based Media Installations' for Pre-Prints for International Institute for Conservation 20th International Congress, September 2004.

Tom Learner

Conservation

Publications:
'19th October 2001: The Impact of Modern Paints', The Picture Restorer, 22, 2002, pp.11-13.
With Jaap Boon, 'Analytical Mass Spectrometry of Artists' Acrylic Emulsion Paints by Direct Temperature Resolved Mass Spectrometry and Laser Desorption Ionisation Mass Spectrometry', Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 64, 2002, pp.327-44.
With Oscar Chiantore and Dominique Scalarone, 'Ageing Studies of Acrylic Emulsion Paints', Preprints of the 13th Triennial meeting of the ICOM Committee for Conservation, Rio de Janeiro, vol.2, 2002, pp.911-9.
With Francesca Cappitelli and Alan Cummings, 'Thermally Assisted Hydrolysis and Methylation - Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry for the Chemical Characterization of Traditional and Synthetic Binders', Preprints of the 13th Triennial meeting of the ICOM Committee for Conservation, Rio de Janeiro, vo.1, 2002, pp.231-7.
With Jaap Boon and Katrien Keune, 'Identification of Pigments and Media from a Paint Cross-Section by Direct Mass Spectrometry and High-Resolution Imaging Mass Spectrometric and Microspectroscopic Techniques, Preprints of the 13th Triennial meeting of the ICOM Committee for Conservation, Rio de Janeiro, vol.1, 2002, pp.223-30.
With Francesca Cappitelli and Oscar Chiantore, 'An Initial Assessment of Thermally Assisted Hydrolysis and Hethylation - Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry for the Identification of Oils from Dried Paint Films', Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 63, 2002, pp.339-48.
With Elizabeth Jablonski, James Hayes and Mark Golden, 'Conservation Concerns for Acrylic Emulsion Paints', Reviews in Conservation, 4, 2003, pp.3-12.
With Oscar Chiantore and Dominique Scalarone, 'Characterisation of Artists' Acrylic Emulsion Paints', Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, 8, 2003, pp.67-82.
'Forward', in Paint in 2003, exhibition catalogue, Century Gallery, London, 2003.

Lectures:
'The Impact of Modern Paints', National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 2002. 'The Impact of Modern Paints on Twentieth-Century Art', North Dakota State University at Fargo, December 2002. 'Analysis of Modern Paints from an Art Conservation Perspective', North Dakota State University at Fargo, USA, December 2002. 'Synthetic Materials and Contemporary Practice', University of Northumbria at Newcastle, December 2002. 'Modern Paints', NAS Sackler Colloquium on Scientific Examination of Art: Modern Techniques in Conservation and Analysis, Washington D.C., March 2003.
'Plastics in Paintings' and Acrylic Paints: Chemical and Physical Properties and Deterioration', Plastik Fantastik symposium, Mossgard Museum, Denmark September 2003.
'The Impact of Modern Paints', School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October 2003.
'The Analysis of Modern Paints', School of Chemistry, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October 2003.
'The Impact of Modern Paints: Paints and Techniques used in Paintings shown at the Tate Exhibition A Bigger Splash, OCA, São Paolo, October 2003.
'Issues in Conservation: The Impact of Modern Paints', Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, November 2003.
'Synthetic Materials and Contemporary Practice', University of Northumbria at Newcastle, December 2003.

Current projects:
Coordinating Modern Paints Research project, a collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), University of Torino, University of Exeter; assessing effects of cleaning acrylic emulsion paints; improving methods of analysis for synthetic organic pigments; expanding Tate's overall capability for the analysis for synthetic organic pigments; expanding Tate's overall capability for the analysis of modern materials; technical committee for International Institute of Conservation's conference Modern Art, New Museums in Bilbao, Spain, September 2004.

Bronwyn Ormsby

Conservation

Publications:
With Joyce Townsend, Brian Singer and John Dean, 'The State of Knowledge on William Blake the Painter' and 'Blake's Use of Tempera in Context'; with Brian Singer and John Dean, 'The Painting of the Temperas' and 'The Appearance of the Temperas Today', in Joyce Townsend (ed.), William Blake: A Painter at Work, Tate Publishing, London 2003, pp.40-4, 134-49, 110-33,150-61.

Lectures:
'The Impact of Modern Paints', Courtauld Institute of Art, London, June 2003.
'The Effects of Surface Cleaning on Acrylic Emulsion Paintings: A Preliminary Investigation', Surface Cleaning conference, Verband der Restauratoren, Dusseldorf, October 2003.

Other:
Taught course 'Science for Art Historians', University College, London, 2003, 2004.

Current projects:
Evaluation of surface cleaning methods for modern and contemporary paintings; articles on the surface cleaning of acrylic emulsion paintings (VDR-Schriftenreihe), plant gums used in works of art via gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry (Studies in Conservation), and British watercolour cakes (Studies in Conservation).

Jacqueline Ridge

Conservation

Publications:
With Joyce Townsend, 'Tate and CCI Sharing Expertise', CCI Newsletter, no.29, June 2002, 3pp.
With Elisabeth Reissner and Patricia Smithen, 'Going Digital at Tate: Notes from the Near Infrared', Digital Imaging for the Paintings Conservator, UKIC Paintings Section 2002, pp.8-15.
Edited with Joyce Townsend and Stephen Hackney, Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques, Tate Publishing, London, 2004, 208pp., including, with Stephen Hackney and Joyce Townsend, 'Background, Training and Influences', 'Pre-Raphaelite Methods and Materials', and 'The Paintings', pp.21-8, 51-76, 77-189.
With Stephen Hackney and Joyce Townsend, 'The Pre-Raphaelite Technique and its Consequences', in Working Groups Paintings 1 & 2. Triennial Congress of ICOM-CC 2002 Brazil, pp.426-32.
'Courier Training at Tate', Part and Parcel of the Job IPC 2002, 2004.

Lectures:
'Courier Training', IPC conference Part and Parcel of the Job, 2002.
'The Artist's Intention', Conservation of Fine Art, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 2002, 2003.
'The Pre-Raphaelite Technique and its Consequences', Working Groups Paintings 1 & 2 Triennial Congress of ICOM-CC 2002 Brazil.
'Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques', Pre-Raphaelitism and Science symposium, Tate Britain 2004.
'Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques', Tate Britain, 2004.
'The Hidden Layers: The Work of the Conservator', NADFAS lecture.

Current projects:
Joint coordinator for paintings' work group, ICOM-CC 14th Triennial Conference, The Hague 2005; technical examination of works for catalogue of Tudor and Stuart paintings in the Tate collection.

Patricia Smithen

Conservation

Publications:
With Elisabeth Reissner and Jacqueline Ridge, 'Going Digital at Tate: Notes from the Near Infrared', Digital Imaging for the Paintings Conservator, UKIC Paintings Section 2002, pp.8-15.

Lectures:
With Elisabeth Reissner and Jacqueline Ridge 'Going Digital at Tate: Notes from the Near Infrared', Digital Imaging for the Paintings Conservator conference, UKIC Paintings Section 2002.

Joyce Townsend

Conservation

Publications:
'The Materials used by British Oil Painters Throughout the Nineteenth Century', Reviews in Conservation, 3, 2002, pp.46-55.
'The Analysis of Watercolor Materials, in particular Turner's Watercolors at the Tate Gallery (1790s to 1840s)', The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper, Archetype Publications, 2002, pp.83-8.
With Stephen Hackney and Jacqueline Ridge, 'Pre-Raphaelite Technique, and its Consequences', ICOM-CC 12th Triennial Meeting Preprints, Rio de Janeiro, 2002, pp.426-31.
With Jacqueline Ridge, 'Tate and CCI Sharing Expertise', CCI Newsletter, no.29, June 2002, 3pp.
With M.R. Solajic, B. Pretzel, M. Cooper, T. Seddon, J. Ruppel, J. Ostakowicz, T. Parker, 'A Collaborative Examination on the Colourfastness of Amazonian Featherwork: Assessing the Effects of Exposure to Light and Laser Radiation', ICOM-CC 12th Triennial Meeting Preprints, Rio de Janeiro, 2002, pp.701-7.
With K. Eremin and A. Adriaens, Conservation Science 2002, Archetype, 2003, 278pp.
Edited William Blake the Painter at Work, Tate Publications, London 2003, including, with Bronwyn Ormsby, Brian Singer and John Dean, 'The State of Knowledge on William Blake the Painter', and 'Blake's Use of Tempera in Context', pp.40-4, 134-48; with N. Cahaner McManus, 'Watercolour Methods, and Materials Use in Context', and 'The Large Colour Prints: Methods and Materials', pp.61-80, 82-98; with Piers Townshend, 'The Conservation of a Large Colour Print', pp.100-108; and, with Robin Hamlyn and John Anderson, 'The Presentation of Blake's Paintings', pp.162-74.
Edited, with Jacqueline Ridge and Stephen Hackney, Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques 1848-1856, Tate Publications, London 2004, including, with Stephen Hackney and Jacqueline Ridge, 'Background, Training and Influences', 'Pre-Raphaelite Methods and Materials', and 'The Paintings', pp.21-8, 51-76, 77-189.
Preservation of Digital Images conference for ICS Newsletter and Conservation News and IPC Newsletter. ICS meeting at Leather Conservation centre, ICS Newsletter.
CURRIC Leonardo final research meeting, ICS Newsletter and Conservation News.

Lectures:
'From Turner to Whistler', University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 2002, and University College, London, 2003.
'Artist's Materials from Turner to Whistler', University of Northumbria at Newcastle and University College, London, 2002, 2003

Other:
Fellow of IIC; associate co-ordinator of ICOM-CC Working Group on Paintings.

Current projects:
'Pre-Raphaelite Paint', Tate Research Seminar (2004); 'Pre-Raphaelite Paint and its Consequences', for seminar Pre-Raphaelites: Making, Meaning and Modernity, Tate Britain(2004); organiser of conference William Blake the Painter at Work, Tate Britain (2004); 'William Blake the Painter in Context', talk at BAPCR one-day seminar at Tate Britain (2004).