Masterclass on thangkas

Thangka Conservation Masterclass
The Clothworkers' Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles
    and Fashion
V&A Museum, London
Wednesday - Friday 4-6 March 2015

Lead by Teresa Heady

UKP350.00
A discount will be available for students, ICOM, AIC, CCI and ICON
members.

The course will consist of an historical over view of thangkas, it
will touch on the geometry and design elements and focus on current
conservation techniques.

The 3 day practical workshop will cover the conservation of all
elements of Buddhist Thangkas.  Concentrating mainly on how to
examine, analyze materials, condition check, consolidate, support
and treat the different surfaces.  There will be practical
conservation elements that deal with the painted surface, the
textiles borders, the cording and the rods.  Throughout the workshop
there will be time to discuss different conservation approaches and
the philosophical and religious aspects of conserving sacred and
cultural important objects.  There will also be the opportunity to
see objects from the V&A's Thangka Collection with Dr. John Clarke,
Curator of the Himalayan and Southeast Asian Collections.

This course is open to conservators and conservation students.

Please contact events<-at->shangshunguk<.>org for further information.

About Teresa: Teresa Heady has worked as a textile and ethnographic
conservator for over 25 years, first at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York, freelancing for several years after leaving the
Met, then took up a position at the Asian Art Museum in San
Francisco before emigrating to England to be first year Lecturer at
the Textile Conservation Centre at Hampton Court.  From there she
moved to be Deputy Head of Collections Conservation and Care at the
Horniman Museum and Gardens.  While there for 6 years she also was
acting Head and spent several months teaching preventive
conservation and conservation in Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal and India.
While on sabbatical for a year she worked with the Textile and
Thangka collections among other conservation duties at the Rikjes
Musee voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, the Netherlands.  From there she
worked in Nepal as part of a team from UNESCO teaching the
conservation of Thangka paintings to a group of Nepalese, Bhutanese,
Tibetan and Indian professional conservators, collections care
managers and monks from different monasteries throughout the
Himalayas.  For the past 10 years she has been the Senior Objects
conservator at St Paul's Cathedral, London and has various duties
from collections care to the conservation of objects, preventive
conservation and environmental monitoring of the entire contents of
the Cathedral.  She still spends time teaching conservation at the
Cathedral via student placements and thangka conservation workshops
in Europe and Asia.


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