modartconserve
@modartconserve.bsky.social
ICON accredited conservator of modern and contemporary art. Technical art history, replicas, materials. Views are my own.
also, you reminded me I have this, which I forgot about and should have read before my trip - it looks perfect! 😣
May 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
also, you reminded me I have this, which I forgot about and should have read before my trip - it looks perfect! 😣
George! Thank you Gilly!
He joined my cousin's tiny sailing boat at first light, 500 miles off the coast of Bermuda and heading to the UK... we'll see how long he sticks around 🙏
He joined my cousin's tiny sailing boat at first light, 500 miles off the coast of Bermuda and heading to the UK... we'll see how long he sticks around 🙏
May 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
George! Thank you Gilly!
He joined my cousin's tiny sailing boat at first light, 500 miles off the coast of Bermuda and heading to the UK... we'll see how long he sticks around 🙏
He joined my cousin's tiny sailing boat at first light, 500 miles off the coast of Bermuda and heading to the UK... we'll see how long he sticks around 🙏
could someone help identify this bird please?
May 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
could someone help identify this bird please?
ah, well done…I dug this out in case, but probably not enough hands!
May 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ah, well done…I dug this out in case, but probably not enough hands!
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…
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
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.
this is in my little pile I‘ve been building all year, to read at Christmas when art stops for a fortnight 🙏
November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
this is in my little pile I‘ve been building all year, to read at Christmas when art stops for a fortnight 🙏
snow day from the Oxford Tube ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 7:35 AM
snow day from the Oxford Tube ❄️
Tony Leung talking to his soap in Chungking Express is 😘
November 19, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Tony Leung talking to his soap in Chungking Express is 😘
gosh - a baby! I did the same, found this whilst searching for something else - growing out an ill-advised suedehead cut
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
gosh - a baby! I did the same, found this whilst searching for something else - growing out an ill-advised suedehead cut
in 2020 I persuaded my kid and his mates to give up 'modern life' for lent...they loved it (but I guess they knew that the playstation was waiting, down the line)
November 15, 2024 at 1:45 PM
in 2020 I persuaded my kid and his mates to give up 'modern life' for lent...they loved it (but I guess they knew that the playstation was waiting, down the line)
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)
this is perfect, I'm currently working on this artwork by Raimond Chaves - 71 vinyl records... Thank you!
November 13, 2024 at 6:08 PM
this is perfect, I'm currently working on this artwork by Raimond Chaves - 71 vinyl records... Thank you!
Head of Leon Kossoff, 1957
charcoal and chalk on paper, private collection
November 12, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Head of Leon Kossoff, 1957
charcoal and chalk on paper, private collection
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
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
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?
here's a nice little touch/memory example I found in the Silver Jews song 'I remember me', that you maybe know of - I played it on a loop when I first came across it
September 28, 2024 at 8:32 AM
here's a nice little touch/memory example I found in the Silver Jews song 'I remember me', that you maybe know of - I played it on a loop when I first came across it
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.
sitting watching sunlight pass across agate ware 🩶
April 13, 2024 at 7:35 AM
sitting watching sunlight pass across agate ware 🩶