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{"title":"Bark paintings conservation: Eucalyptus tetrodonta properties, bark harvesting and various mounting systems in the Northern Territory†","authors":"Lisa M. Nolan","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1491090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1491090","url":null,"abstract":"In the past, various mounting systems have been developed with no real consensus on the most appropriate system to display bark paintings that also considers the cultural values of Aboriginal Traditional Owners. In addressing this gap, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) has been reviewing their current mounting systems and the preparation of bark supports with Injalak Arts to enable the development of evidence-based best practices for the display and preservation of bark paintings. A holistic study was undertaken to fully understand the life cycle of bark supports from when they are first made, to their display and collections trajectory in the cultural institution context. This paper examines Eucalyptus tetrodonata’s bark properties and harvesting techniques used by the Injalak Art Centre artists from the Aboriginal Traditional Owners’ perspective. With a holistic understanding of the material and cultural contexts, past display techniques were subsequently assessed which informed improvements of current bark painting mounting methods deployed at MAGNT. The purpose of this paper is not only to inform the development of appropriate mounting systems, but also to provide insight for the development of best practice decision-making and ‘proofed concepts’ of preventive conservation for the preservation and display of Aboriginal bark paintings.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"106 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1491090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49517347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"N. Tse","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1593589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1593589","url":null,"abstract":"Volume . presents a mix of conservation papers and viewpoints from an Australian professional context. What draws the papers together is their focus on living cultural collections and heritage that connects people and communities and not only the static objects that we are commonly accustomed to in institutionalised contexts. Such a trend is not new in museology. The representation of living heritage, object biographies and knowledge acquisition in the broadest sense have long been in the public domain and the topic of exhibitions. While in conservation, the theme was explored at the ICOM CC th Triennial Conference Building Strong Culture through Conservation in Melbourne in  and the Hamilton Kerr Institute conference on Migrants: art, artists, materials and ideas crossing borders in . Essentially, the papers and conferences are all exploring identity, how it is constructed, acknowledged and (mis)represented which naturally has implications for how we conserve objects. The four papers in volume . are concerned with how to engage with living heritage systems and their fluid dynamics. It is encouraging that submissions to the AICCM Bulletin are focussing and exploring these themes. The paper ‘What is the Object? Identifying and describing time-based artworks’ by Carolyn Murphy, Asti Sherring and Lisa Catt from the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) examines the challenges of cataloguing time based artworks in an institutionalised context. The AGNSW having collected such works since the s, discusses how the use of standard terminologies in their earlier database records may have misrepresented or not captured the artworks defining properties and iterative processes. Their goal therefore has been to re-evaluate their documentation and decision-making processes through a focussed project and a number of case studies in their collection. Carolyn Murphy and Analiese Treacy’s paper ‘Drawings you can walk on—Mike Parr and the th Biennale of Sydney ’ likewise explores the challenges of iterative works of art and ones that are ‘intentionally unstable (both physically and conceptually)’. The title itself challenges conservation practice from a conventional point of view but champions the experience and the living artists agency. The authors discuss how to best manage the various ideologies while also using the familiar modes of conservation documentation in the process. While Lisa Nolan’s paper on ‘Bark paintings conservation: Eucalyptus tetrodonta properties, bark harvesting and various mounting systems in the Northern Territory indigenous bark paintings’ provides a historical account of bark painting mounting systems and the way attitudes have evolved and changed. Informed through oral history accounts, the paper aims to understand the ‘full life cycle of bark supports from when they are first made, to their display and collections trajectory in the cultural institution context’. Working with Injalak Arts, the author has docum","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"75 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1593589","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43632728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moving a collection: Issues in the documentation, transportation and storage of the Freemasons Victoria collection","authors":"Bronwyn Dunn, Marlene Nicole Gray, Neva Hoppenbrouwers, Neeha Velagapudi","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1555083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1555083","url":null,"abstract":"Early 2011 Freemasons Victoria decided to prepare the many historical and significant objects in their collection for relocation to premises in Prahran, Melbourne. This temporary storage facility would house the museum, portraits and library until a new Masonic building was constructed and a new museum established. This task unfolded as a complex series of steps requiring the organisation of the highly diverse collection before packing and transportation. These objects were in varying condition and with minimal or no associated documentation. This article outlines the process of bringing together this collection within a coherent framework, in preparation for its relocation and with the broader aim of improving future access to the collection and potential for museum accreditation. This process proved to be a challenging endeavour which evolved as more objects were located and identified. While many of the steps described in this paper are routine, the paper aims to present the journey of moving a large collection of objects within an institution historically shrouded in secrecy and misunderstanding (rightly or wrongly) and the challenges encountered along the way.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"107 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1555083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44400716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Kuthodaw Pagoda, Myanmar: collaborative conservation of a UNESCO Memory of the World site","authors":"W. Reade","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1522779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1522779","url":null,"abstract":"The Kuthodaw Pagoda complex in Mandalay, Myanmar is listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, valuable for its 729 marble stelae each housed in a white-washed mini-pagoda and inscribed with Theravāda Buddhist texts written in Pali, and known as the ‘World’s Biggest Book’. In 2013 Australia’s Nan Tien Institute, Wollongong, and the University of Sydney worked with the Myanmar Ministry of Culture, the Mandalay Department of Archaeology and the custodians of the Kuthodaw Pagoda site to conserve, photograph, digitise and make a freely available database for the study of the inscribed texts. This paper describes the collaborative conservation project that included condition assessment, documentation, conservation work to the stelae and site, local staff training, and provision of a practical maintenance plan. The successful development and execution of this preservation project was due to a productive cultural dialogue that was based on consultative discussion between all parties, willingness to co-operate, and consideration of Buddhist customs, traditional crafts, local practice, and the impact of visitors and natural agencies on the site.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"55 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1522779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43054569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental Guidelines—An Australian Perspective","authors":"A. Pagliarino","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1489455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1489455","url":null,"abstract":"In 2018, the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) embarked on the ambitious Environmental Guidelines Project. As the project gets underway, the author looks back at the formative research undertaken by Emeritus Professor Colin Pearson from 1990 through to the early 2000s. His approach to the management of the collection environment was both culturally and environmentally aware and led to the development of climate-specific environmental guidelines and collection care strategies. In this paper, the author recounts personal reflections on Professor Pearson’s enlightened and progressive teaching and looks at the ongoing global debate on sustainable cultural heritage practices within the Australian context.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"19 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1489455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46017721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A microfading survey of the lightfastness of blue, black and red ballpoint pen inks in ambient and modified environments","authors":"Bruce L. Ford","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1515809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1515809","url":null,"abstract":"The lightfastness of approximately 100 randomly selected red, black and blue inks was surveyed using the microfade technique. The inks’ responses were recorded at 55% and at 1% relative humidity (RH) in air, and in a low oxygen environment (<10 ppm O2) at 55% RH. Their light sensitivity in air was highly unpredictable, ranging from the detection limit of the technique to several times greater than the most fugitive ISO Blue Wool Fading Standard (BW1). With very few exceptions, the response of blue and black inks was markedly suppressed in anoxia, and the opposite was true of a significant proportion of red inks tested. The correlation between RH and light-sensitivity in air was weak, with highly variable responses in both directions. The results show that it is not possible to make useful display (light exposure) recommendations for ballpoint pen inks without prior fade-testing.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"26 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1515809","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49413396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"For mutual benefit: cultural materials conservation and local government—a case study","authors":"R. Sloggett, Janelle Middleton","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1544328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1544328","url":null,"abstract":"There are two challenges currently faced by communities in Australia in the protection and preservation of their cultural, historical and scientific heritage. An exploration of these serves as the basis for this paper. The first is the need to provide sustainable economic support for the preservation of built and movable cultural heritage. The second is the need to develop infrastructure that can support preservation activities. This paper examines how Bathurst Regional Council is addressing these significant issues. It examines the impetus for Council to develop a broader vision around its built and movable heritage and the strategic framework that is scaffolding current initiatives. This case study of Bathurst Regional Council’s response to the need to preserve, invest and best use its cultural heritage assets demonstrates why conservation partnerships are critical both for community development and for the development of the conservation profession.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"65 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1544328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48865110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pioneering collections conservation in the Asia-Pacific 1978–1998 A job well done","authors":"I. Cook","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1544877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1544877","url":null,"abstract":"Colin Pearson was an internationalist. From his debuts as a metals scientist into a long and fruitful career in the field of conservation of cultural materials, he used his expertise internationally and made a significant contribution to the establishment of materials conservation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. His role in the creation of the UNESCO Regional Conservation Centre in Canberra, to assist with the development of conservation in Southeast Asia and in the Pacific, and the assessment visits that he carried in partnership with UNESCO and ICCROM, were essential. Respecting and fostering local agency, long before this became part of the official heritage discourse, Colin and his institutional partners believed in building and nurturing relationships. This resulted in an international professional network, built through publications and numerous workshops delivered across Asia and the Pacific, with many of the students and colleagues becoming key actors in the regional conservation developments programs. It led to the establishment of regional centres that are today able to collaborate in further conservation training and projects. This article recounts Colin’s contribution to the first two decades of the Asian Pacific program and reflects on his vision for sustainable conservation centres throughout the region.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"35 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1544877","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47119031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"N. Tse","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1553128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1553128","url":null,"abstract":"In  at the ICOM CC th Triennial Conference in Melbourne, Professor Colin Pearson established the AICCM award for the most ‘Outstanding Research in the Field of Material Conservation’ published in the AICCM Bulletin. Some three years later at the  AICCM National Conference in the Blue Mountains Sydney, a Gedenkschrift dedicated to Professor Colin Pearson celebrated his life and contribution to cultural materials conservation was organized by the then AICCM President, MaryJo Lelyveld. Colin, the ‘Father of the Conservation Profession in Australia’ had passed away the previous year, on  April . Friend and mentor to generations of conservators both in Australia and overseas his passing was keenly felt across the heritage sector and beyond (Lyall & Batterham ). In honour of the immense contribution that Colin made throughout his -year career, this memorial publication of the AICCM Bulletin is dedicated to Colin and captures the themes and papers explored during the Gedenkshcrift and the  AICCM National Conference. The papers exemplify Colin’s legacy and an Australian conservation profession that he valued. As such the focus of this volume . explores the areas important to Colin covering materials research in conservation, conservation education and training, preventive conservation and environmental guidelines, and conservation in the Asia Pacific. As considered in all the papers, Colin was very much central to the formative period (–) and growth period ( to the present) of conservation in Australia. We see this examined in Marcelle Scott’s paper ‘Professor Colin Pearson: one of the most versatile and capable conservators of his generation’ that considers Colin’s contributory role as an educator over the two periods. In  Colin joined the Canberra College of Advanced Education (CCAE) to establish a conservation training program, the first in Australia and one of earliest programs to include an ethnographic conservation specialization (Figure ). Under his tenure, the CCAE (later the University of Canberra) program offered courses at Bachelor, Master, and PhD levels graduating  students over its  year history (Figure ). Scott’s paper fleshes out the issues of ‘what an “ideal” conservation course might be’. The paper points out the challenges faced by Colin working across the University and professional contexts, and more importantly the ‘tensions between the need to prepare students for the future while wanting new graduates to be work-ready’. This is akin to managing diverse expectations while building disciplinary bodies of knowledge that are grounded by ethical and conceptual responsibilities to collections, culture and society. As such, Scott also recognizes that Colin may model what a future educator should look like and one that fully combines research, teaching and practice. In doing so, Colin ‘was able to construct such a rigorous, and internationally recognised and recognisable professional con","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1553128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46998315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decision making, materiality and digitisation: Esteban Villanueva’s Basi Revolt Paintings of Ilocos","authors":"N. Tse, M. Soriano, A. Labrador, Roberto Balarbar","doi":"10.1080/10344233.2018.1543146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2018.1543146","url":null,"abstract":"Esteban Villanueva’s fourteen 1821 paintings, the Basi Revolt Paintings of Ilocos, are valued for their representation of the conflict between the Spanish colonial administration and Filipino Ilocano insurgents. As pictorial documents representing the emergence of secular artistic practice in the Philippines, they possess significant social and historical narratives of national independence and the Ilocano’s strength of character. Damage, previous restorations and the effects of tropical climates have not been kind to the Basi Revolt paintings and their visual reading is complex. This paper reports on the technical and materials analysis of the paintings, documentation, digitisation and image analysis as a conservation model to broaden perspectives on knowledge acquisition in conservation. Conservation decision making in the Philippines is an additional focus of the paper, with an examination of localised values, and the trajectory and life of the paintings to inform conservation actions and creative processes.","PeriodicalId":7847,"journal":{"name":"AICCM Bulletin","volume":"39 1","pages":"42 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10344233.2018.1543146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44685735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}