modartconserve
@modartconserve.bsky.social
ICON accredited conservator of modern and contemporary art. Technical art history, replicas, materials. Views are my own.
Pinned
a starter pack of conservators from various disciplines - please let me know if you'd like to be added, and who I've missed...
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could someone help identify this bird please?
May 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
could someone help identify this bird please?
Leigh Bowery’s diary is not entirely as I’d anticipated - which I suppose is exactly right…
January 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Leigh Bowery’s diary is not entirely as I’d anticipated - which I suppose is exactly right…
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Can’t be repeated often enough
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
The UK should take a leaf from France’s book to boost arts funding
Tax breaks for corporate sponsors can benefit the creative sector at a time of dwindling public funds
on.ft.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Can’t be repeated often enough
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL
one-woman-marmalade-factory 🍊
January 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
one-woman-marmalade-factory 🍊
cherry pie and a movie kind of an evening 🖤
January 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
cherry pie and a movie kind of an evening 🖤
messaging old friends with memories of seeing Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart at the cinema together - hard to explain now how thrilling it was to be seventeen and to fall in that space. All our changes were there.
RIP David Lynch
RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
messaging old friends with memories of seeing Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart at the cinema together - hard to explain now how thrilling it was to be seventeen and to fall in that space. All our changes were there.
RIP David Lynch
RIP David Lynch
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I don’t think “the kids” can understand how radical it was that Twin Peaks was on network tv. It premiered to *34.6 million* viewers. Crazy, man. Agent Cooper was on to something when he said “Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen.” RIP
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
bit.ly
January 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I don’t think “the kids” can understand how radical it was that Twin Peaks was on network tv. It premiered to *34.6 million* viewers. Crazy, man. Agent Cooper was on to something when he said “Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen.” RIP
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A new indie bookshop opened today in Norwich. The Holloway is on St Lawrence Steps, St Benedicts Street. Second hand, zines, indie, radical and nature writing... records, film & music nights too. The good stuff.
#supportsmallpublishers
#supportsmallpublishers
November 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM
A new indie bookshop opened today in Norwich. The Holloway is on St Lawrence Steps, St Benedicts Street. Second hand, zines, indie, radical and nature writing... records, film & music nights too. The good stuff.
#supportsmallpublishers
#supportsmallpublishers
Peter Kennard’s Filofax, recto and verso.
It is just as you’d imagine.
It is just as you’d imagine.
November 29, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Peter Kennard’s Filofax, recto and verso.
It is just as you’d imagine.
It is just as you’d imagine.
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6 words I hate:
playful
vibrant
literary
gobsmacked
passed (died)
date (verb)
playful
vibrant
literary
gobsmacked
passed (died)
date (verb)
November 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM
6 words I hate:
playful
vibrant
literary
gobsmacked
passed (died)
date (verb)
playful
vibrant
literary
gobsmacked
passed (died)
date (verb)
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Media consumption of the past.
November 22, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Media consumption of the past.
snow day from the Oxford Tube ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 7:35 AM
snow day from the Oxford Tube ❄️
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A great little video explaining conservation from Buffalo Public Media and the Garmin Art Conservation program.
Buffalo State Art Conservation Department | Let's Go! | PBS LearningMedia
Follow Chrisena as she explores Buffalo State's exclusive Art Conservation Department! Discover how conservators historically have used science and art to restore iconic works, like Leonardo da Vinci’...
www.pbslearningmedia.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:43 PM
A great little video explaining conservation from Buffalo Public Media and the Garmin Art Conservation program.
a starter pack of conservators from various disciplines - please let me know if you'd like to be added, and who I've missed...
go.bsky.app/4HjAJJX
go.bsky.app/4HjAJJX
November 15, 2024 at 1:16 PM
a starter pack of conservators from various disciplines - please let me know if you'd like to be added, and who I've missed...
go.bsky.app/4HjAJJX
go.bsky.app/4HjAJJX
What is one of your comfort movies ?
(I pretty much have only comfort movies these days)
(I pretty much have only comfort movies these days)
November 14, 2024 at 8:34 AM
What is one of your comfort movies ?
(I pretty much have only comfort movies these days)
(I pretty much have only comfort movies these days)
all that hard-won/hard-worn looking, second sheet adhered under the first so he could work right through the picture plane to get lower...
RIP Frank Auerbach 1931-2024
RIP Frank Auerbach 1931-2024
November 12, 2024 at 4:38 PM
all that hard-won/hard-worn looking, second sheet adhered under the first so he could work right through the picture plane to get lower...
RIP Frank Auerbach 1931-2024
RIP Frank Auerbach 1931-2024
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conservation is about loss- documenting it, imagining it, attempting to manage it- so this collage is an *extra* example- types of loss listed in words set down by now obsolete machinery, and the passage of time described in the discoloured adhesive
Carolee Schneemann collage
Carolee Schneemann collage
August 4, 2023 at 10:49 AM
conservation is about loss- documenting it, imagining it, attempting to manage it- so this collage is an *extra* example- types of loss listed in words set down by now obsolete machinery, and the passage of time described in the discoloured adhesive
Carolee Schneemann collage
Carolee Schneemann collage
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Also: the materials you use speak, you should be aware of what they say. / they have narrative, implications, they are freighted / and everything sways meaning in the close read
"...ppl who make art wld benefit from the knwldg + experience of conservators... All who use materials shld know more abt their life cycles: where raw materials come from, where they go if disposed, what they will become when they eventually disintegrate[, and their] local and global histories"
After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Mal Ahern - Conservation After Conditioning, Part 2: Letting the World In
Since the 1990s, conservation scientists have worried about AC’s carbon footprint and thus started to question this approach. Newer research suggests the flat, unchanging museum environment is likely ...
www.e-flux.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Also: the materials you use speak, you should be aware of what they say. / they have narrative, implications, they are freighted / and everything sways meaning in the close read
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now.
Steam-train fire-girl
Recording studio manager
Dealer of vintage cowboy boots
Forklift driver
Men's tailoring consultant
Potato farmer in Ukraine
Steam-train fire-girl
Recording studio manager
Dealer of vintage cowboy boots
Forklift driver
Men's tailoring consultant
Potato farmer in Ukraine
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now.
Land girl
Artist’s model
Hat model
Strategy analyst
Project manager
Factory operative
Land girl
Artist’s model
Hat model
Strategy analyst
Project manager
Factory operative
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now.
Cycle helmet maker
Chocolate heat sealer
Library assistant
Dictionary assistant editor
Big Brother interactive editor
Cycle helmet maker
Chocolate heat sealer
Library assistant
Dictionary assistant editor
Big Brother interactive editor
November 10, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now.
Steam-train fire-girl
Recording studio manager
Dealer of vintage cowboy boots
Forklift driver
Men's tailoring consultant
Potato farmer in Ukraine
Steam-train fire-girl
Recording studio manager
Dealer of vintage cowboy boots
Forklift driver
Men's tailoring consultant
Potato farmer in Ukraine
one of the sketchbook pages not on display in the Mike Kelley exhibition at Tate Modern - this was one of my favourites.
what do you hear - a big voice - wrong
what do you hear - a big voice - wrong
November 9, 2024 at 6:29 PM
one of the sketchbook pages not on display in the Mike Kelley exhibition at Tate Modern - this was one of my favourites.
what do you hear - a big voice - wrong
what do you hear - a big voice - wrong
thinking about breathing in the essence of JMW Turner by smelling his sketchbooks reminded me of this video, where the makeup artist Lisa Eldridge 'eats' molecules of Audrey Hepburn ♥️ a material culture/makeup clash - pure heaven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkK...
I got Audrey Hepburn’s Lipstick Case!!
YouTube video by Lisa Eldridge
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November 9, 2024 at 12:03 PM
thinking about breathing in the essence of JMW Turner by smelling his sketchbooks reminded me of this video, where the makeup artist Lisa Eldridge 'eats' molecules of Audrey Hepburn ♥️ a material culture/makeup clash - pure heaven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkK...
we took down the Expressionists vinyl at Tate Modern and it was briefly this beautiful ♥️
November 9, 2024 at 11:18 AM
we took down the Expressionists vinyl at Tate Modern and it was briefly this beautiful ♥️
I'm planning a session exploring artworks via touch and smell. For the invitations I'd like to capture some Turner sketchbook scent in tiny glass vials - is this likely possible? If I left the smelliest book in a sealed plexi box for a while with an open vial would some scent just sort of fall in?
November 9, 2024 at 10:34 AM
I'm planning a session exploring artworks via touch and smell. For the invitations I'd like to capture some Turner sketchbook scent in tiny glass vials - is this likely possible? If I left the smelliest book in a sealed plexi box for a while with an open vial would some scent just sort of fall in?
what just happened? Exhausted and a little stunned waking up this morning post-Mike Kelley install at Tate Modern...
Applauding the registrars, art handlers, technicians and conservators who helped make it happen - what an astonishing team we have.
Applauding the registrars, art handlers, technicians and conservators who helped make it happen - what an astonishing team we have.
September 28, 2024 at 8:20 AM
what just happened? Exhausted and a little stunned waking up this morning post-Mike Kelley install at Tate Modern...
Applauding the registrars, art handlers, technicians and conservators who helped make it happen - what an astonishing team we have.
Applauding the registrars, art handlers, technicians and conservators who helped make it happen - what an astonishing team we have.
prompted by @jeremymillar.bsky.social’s recent Turner tweet I got this out for a closer look. The light brown splodge - I like to think he dipped his finger in the bloody waves and just splatted it on the paper.
A Harpooned Whale 1845 JMW Turner. Graphite and watercolour on paper. Tate collection.
A Harpooned Whale 1845 JMW Turner. Graphite and watercolour on paper. Tate collection.
June 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
prompted by @jeremymillar.bsky.social’s recent Turner tweet I got this out for a closer look. The light brown splodge - I like to think he dipped his finger in the bloody waves and just splatted it on the paper.
A Harpooned Whale 1845 JMW Turner. Graphite and watercolour on paper. Tate collection.
A Harpooned Whale 1845 JMW Turner. Graphite and watercolour on paper. Tate collection.