Conference on fine and decorative arts

Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future:
Collecting and conserving fine and decorative arts
Buckinghamshire New University
High Wycombe
14-16 September 2010

Supported by the Buckinghamshire Furniture Forum

Buckinghamshire New University is delighted to announce this
inaugural conference, which brings experts from the industry and
academia together with enthusiasts of the collection and
conservation of the fine and decorative arts.

The three days will focus on new and evolving ideas in the
conservation and restoration of private and public collections,
examining issues in furniture, painting and ceramics, and exploring
the contrast between traditional techniques and the most recent
breakthroughs in conservation and restoration.

Programme,

Day 1
Tuesday 14 September 2010

    09.30       Registration and Coffee

    10.00       Welcome
                Professor Chris Kemp
                Pro Vice Chancellor, Bucks New University

    10.30       Introduction
                    Dr John Cross
                    Resident Curator of the Fredrick Parker
                    Collection

    10.45       Gilding through the ages and its links with
                decorative painting
                    Rod Titian
                    Regular contributor to the BBC Televisions
                    'Restoration Roadshow'

    11.15       High Wycombe Electronic Furniture Archive
                    Professor Jake Kaner and Sharon Grover
                    Buckinghamshire New University

    11.45       Techniques and materials used in decorative art
                conservation
                    Paul Tear MBE
                    Former head of conservation, the Wallace
                    Collection

    12.15       Panel Q&A

    12.30       Lunch and Exhibitions

    13.45       Introduction
                    Paul Tear
                    MBE Former head of conservation, the Wallace
                    Collection

    14.00       Preserving the past: identifying a culture; Jamaica
                in the colonial period
                    Dr. John Cross
                    Resident Curator of the Fredrick Parker
                    Collection

    14.30       Windsor, Watercolours and Wine Jugs

                    Dr. Catherine Griggs
                    Collections and Interpretation Officer, Wycombe
                    Museum

    15.00       How conservation is affected by art market trends
                and insurance requirements
                    Dr. Thomas Wessel
                    Director Art Expertise Management, AXA Art Group

    15.30       Panel Q&A

    15.45       Refreshments

    16.30       Arts on Film Archive:  rarely seen documentary and
                commercial footage relating to arts and crafts and
                manufacturing in the twentieth century
                     Prof. Joram ten Brink
                    Archive Director, Arts on Film

Day 2
Wednesday 15 September 2010

    09.30       Registration and Coffee

    10.00       Welcome
                    Dr Paul Springer
                    Buckinghamshire New University

    10.30       Introduction
                    Sharon Grover
                    Senior Lecturer, Furniture

    10.45       Globe Chair, adhesion and cohesion: An interior
                problem
                    Dana Melcher
                    V&A, Senior Furniture Conservator

    11.15       The use of keratin based materials within the
                decorative arts
                    Dr. Campbell Norman-Smith
                    Senior Lecturer in Conservation

    11.45       The conservation of an early nineteenth century
                pyrography panel

                Susan M. Millis

    12.15       Panel Q&A

    12.30       Lunch and Exhibitions

    13.45       Introduction
                    Professor Chris Kemp
                    Pro Vice Chancellor, Bucks New University

    14-00-21st  Century Schizoid Man: Knowledge, Nostalgia and
                Capital in Record Collecting
                    Dr. Simon Poole
                    Senior Lecturer in Music and Entertainment at
                    Bucks

    14.30       Samuel Pepys: Portraits and Picture Frames
                    Mac Pritchard
                    Frame Conservator, National Maritime Museum,
                    Greenwich

    15.00       How the G-Plan brand transformed the British
                furniture industry of the 50s and 60s
                    Basil Hyman
                    Author of 'The GPlan Revolution' (Booth Cliborn
                    Press)

    15.30       Panel Q&A

    15.45       Refreshments

    16.30       Museum Visits: Wycombe Chair making Museum and
                Wycombe Museum

Day 3
Thursday 16 September 2010

    09.30       Registration and Coffee

    10.00       Welcome
                    John Boylan
                    Dean of Research and Enterprise at Bucks New
                    University

    10.30       Introduction
                    Prof. Juliet Simpson
                    Professor of Art History and Visual Culture

    10.45       From Warehouse to Showroom: Changes in retail
                selling spaces 1880-1990
                    Professor Clive Edwards
                    Professor of Design History, Loughborough
                    University

    11.15       Furnishing the Garden Cities
                    Dr Oliver S. Heal
                    Furniture historian and restorer

    11.45       Rapid Prototyping in Museums: Technology:
                applications--durability
                    Tim Bechthold
                    Head of Conservation Department

    12.15       Panel Q&A

    12.30       Lunch and Exhibitions

    13.45       Introduction
                    Dr Oliver S. Heal
                    Furniture historian and restorer

    14.00       Development of household paints from the 1910s to
                the 1950s
                    Dr. Harriet Standeven
                    Former tutor on the RCA/V&A Conservation
                    Programme

    14-30       3-D Visualisation: techniques to deepen our
                understanding of historic furniture
                    Prof. Jake Kaner
                    Buckinghamshire New University

    15.00       Art revivals and the politics of consumption in
                nineteenth century France
                    Professor Juliet Simpson
                    Professor of Art History and Visual Culture

    15.30       Panel Q&A

    15.45       Refreshments

    16.30       Conclusions and Wrap-up

Contacts:

    Tom Harrison
    +44 1494 601 620
    tom.harrison<-at->bucks<.>ac<.>uk

    Chauntelle Little
    +44 1494 601 629
    chauntelle.little<-at->bucks<.>ac<.>uk

<URL:http://www.open4businessbucks.com/conferences>

Jake Kaner
Professor in Furniture
PhD, MA, BA(Hons), Cert Ed, MICON, FWCFM
Faculty of Design, Media and Management
Buckinghamshire New University
High Wycombe Campus
Queen Alexandra Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire HP11 2JZ
+44 1494 522 141 ext 3556/3583
Fax: +44 1494 461 196


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