Wednesday 18th January 2012. The Materials and Techniques of John Sell Cotman and John Crome.
Illustrated lecture by Rose Miller. Town Close Auditorium, Norwich Castle. 2.30pm.
John Sell Cotman and John Crome were painting before the period when artists’ materials were generally available. Rose Miller has been researching their materials and techniques. This is a wonderful opportunity to find out about some of the most recent research on the work of these famous Norwich School artists.
more details on the website of the friends of Norwich Museum.
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lecture by Rose Miller at Norwich Castle Museum
January 15th, 2012
2012 Open Day
December 4th, 2011
The Hamilton Kerr Institute is holding an open afternoon on 11th January (starting at 2:20 PM). We would be grateful if you could confirm by email (hki-admin@lists.cam.ac.uk) or telephone (+44 1223 832 040) before 5th January if you wish to attend. Visitor numbers are limited.
The Art and Science of Medieval Church Screens-an interdisciplinary conference
November 22nd, 2011
Friday, 27 April 2012 to Saturday, 28 April 2012
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
This conference will help shape new understandings of old barriers: the richly carved and painted screens which filled medieval churches. It will interest art historians, historians of religion and conservators.
The conference is being convened by the Cambridge University Medieval Panel Painting Research Centre, of which the Hamilton Kerr Institute is a partner, with the support of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge.
The conference comes at the end of a three-year study on East Anglian medieval screens based at the Hamilton Kerr Institute and funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Registration for the conference will open in the New Year.
30th Anniversary Gerry Hedley Student Symposium
November 17th, 2011
Continuing the Legacy: Current topics furthering Gerry Hedley’s Research
Tate Britain
11-13 June 2012
Presented by Northumbria University with kind support from Tate
The next Gerry Hedley Student Symposium is the 30th Anniversary!
To celebrate this achievement and in recognition of the appreciable contribution more than 400 students from the Hamilton Kerr Institute, the Courtauld Institute, and Northumbria University programmes have made, it is intended to hold a three day event at Tate Britain, 11-13 June 2012.
The overall working theme reflects current topics in conservation which relate to research developed and pioneered by Gerry Hedley. The traditional day for current student’s work will be followed by a second day drawing on former student’s research and practical activity since graduation. The content for the third day will be developed over the coming months but will include topics and papers suggested by experienced professionals.
Contributions may relate to subjects chosen by current students. As a prompt for related submissions, titles for current student projects will be published with the call for papers. Former students now working in different fields are welcome to participate with relevant topics. There are many possibilities. Updating areas of research that Gerry Hedley developed would be especially appropriate. It is hoped that the call for contribution and participation will be spread by word-of-mouth.
We invite all former students to submit short resume of their student projects and past and current career details to be published on a forthcoming website for the symposium to:
az.ghsymposium2012 [at] northumbria__ac__uk.
It is hoped that this will encourage engagement between former students in celebration of the 30th anniversary
A call for papers is forthcoming.
Internships in the Conservation of easel paintings
November 7th, 2011
Internships in the Conservation of easel paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
Two or more internships will be offered from September 2012. Tenable for one year, interns may be invited to extend the internship for a further year. Applicants should be recent graduates from a recognised training programme. The internships are designed to allow concentration on practical studio work, but with opportunities for research work, depending on current projects at the Institute. Two internships will be funded, with a maintenance grant of £1300 p/m and the tuition fees reimbursed. One or two other internships may be offered, but these will not necessarily be fully funded, and candidates may be required to find some of the funding required (maintenance and tuition fees).
The University has a responsibility to ensure that candidates comply with UK Border and Immigration legislation and have the right to live and undertake an internship in the UK.
Applications with the name and address of two referees should be e-mailed or addressed to:
The Administrator
The Hamilton Kerr Institute
Mill Lane
Whittlesford
Cambridge CB22 4NE, UK
+44 1223 832040
Fax: +44 1223 837595
hki-admin@ lists.cam.ac.uk
Closing date for all applications: 31 January 2012
Job vacancy
July 27th, 2011
Assistant to the Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute
(Senior Conservator of Easel Paintings) Find out more…
Closing date for applications: 9 September 2011
Planned interview date: end of September/beginning of October 2011
Open Day
January 4th, 2011
The Hamilton Kerr Institute is holding an open afternoon on 31st January (starting at 2:20 PM). We would be grateful if you could confirm by email (hki-admin@lists.cam.ac.uk) or telephone (+44 1223 832 040) before 27th January if you wish to attend. Visitor numbers are limited.
The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece; Filippo Lippi
December 9th, 2010
to be aired on Christmas Day, BBC2 at 5.10pm
For the second year the work of staff and interns of the HKI will feature on BBC television on Christmas day. Marking another collaboration with Fulmar Television, Cris Patrick and Krista Blessley created a detailed partial reconstruction of The Adoration of the Christ Child by Filippo Lippi, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The reconstruction was informed by close visual observation, analysis and knowledge of artistic working practises of the 15th Century.
Cris and Krista have included some more information about the reconstruction on our website, under the Research section.