2015’s two-day ICON Ceramics and
Glass Group conference was held in Worcester with a good demographic
of around forty delegates in attendance. Conservators from the museum
sector and private practice attended as well as students from many of
the conservation courses throughout the UK.
The second day of the conference
comprised of presentations from both practicing conservators and
students. All of the talks were highly informative, however, there
were some standouts among the group. Jerrod Seifert, student at
Cardiff University gave an excellent presentation on the use of
enzymes for adhesive removal on ceramics. Peter David, a private
ceramics conservator regaled the audience with the story of an
exceptionally hot gallery (120oF), the havoc it wreaked on
the adhesive holding shelves of ceramics in place and the subsequent
conservation works that were undertaken to repair the damage caused
when the shelves decided to take a southerly journey.
Written by Anna Stone, MA student at
the University of Lincoln.