The 31th Annual Gerry Hedley Symposium is being hosted by the students and interns of the Hamilton Kerr Institute. It will be held on Monday 10th June, 2013 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The event will feature final-year students from all three UK postgraduate painting conservation programs (Hamilton Kerr Institute, Courtauld Institute of Art, Northumbria University), who will present their research projects. The conference also provides an environment where students and professionals can share ideas and interact.

The registration fee is UKP 15 for students and UKP 20 for non-students. This will include a copy of preprints, morning & afternoon refreshments, and a drinks reception in the courtyard following the presentations. All delegates must be registered by 30th May, 2013.

All are welcome

To book:
Register and pay online via the Cambridge eSales system
OR
Mail the completed registration form and cheque (made payable to “Gerry Hedley Student Symposium”) to:

Hamilton Kerr Institute
Mill Lane
Whittlesford
CB22 4NE
United Kingdom

There is an opportunity to visit the Hamilton Kerr studios on Tuesday 11th June from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.
Please email if you wish to attend, as space is limited.
For further queries, please contact us: (telephone) 01223 832 040 (email) gerryhedley2013@gmail.com

Related Documents:

• Programme (pdf)
• List of Speakers (pdf)

Sponsors:

                   

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John Crome trained as a coach, house and sign painter. Infrared imaging has revealed that he painted one of his finest landscapes The Yare at Thorpe on an old painted coach door.

John Crome, The Yare at Thorpe, c.1806

John Crome, The Yare at Thorpe, c.1806, infrared, rotated 90 degrees

Both artists frequently employed re-used materials to paint on, such as this coach door, and also cupboard doors and old paintings. They also often used coarse canvases and Crome painted Norwich River: Afternoon on ticking, the twill-weave striped material still used on mattresses and pillows. In their time the two Norwich men were often criticised for their lack of finish, and art historians have questioned whether they were limited in their choices by high taxes on artist materials. This research, however, has shown that a preference for the ‘rough’ aesthetic exhibited by both artists often resulted from intentional visual decisions. Their paintings are tactile objects, with a richness of surface resulting from the methods they chose to use.

John Sell Cotman, Boat House and Trees, c.1806-8, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery

In Cotman’s painting Boat House and Trees there are dried flakes of paint stuck in the surface, likely to have come from the pierced opening in the pigs bladders used to store oil paint in this period (metal tubes didn’t come into use until the 1840s). These, along with brush hairs left in the paint and the mottled texture of the piece of millboard he painted on, add to the immediacy of the image, connecting it to the natural world depicted.

Two internships will be offered from September 2013. 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. The internships will be funded, with a maintenance grant of £1,200 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 will 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 (covering letter and c.v.) and two letters of reference (sent directly to the Institute by referees) should be e-mailed or addressed to:
The Administrator, the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Mill Lane, Whittlesford, Cambridge CB22 4NE, UK
Tel: 44(0)1223 832040; Fax: 44(0)1223.837595
e-mail: hki-admin@lists.cam.ac.uk
website: www-hki.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Closing date for all applications: 31 January 2013

Published by the Hamilton Kerr Institute and Harvey Miller as volume 3 of the series Painting and Practice

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the profession of painting restorer became established in France. Documents concerning the careers of the restorers of that period employed by the French Royal Collection, and then by the new French Republic, have been examined, resulting in this study in which the biographies of the main painting restorers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are placed into the historical and cultural setting of the period. Details of the techniques used by these restorers are presented in detail. The narrative concludes in the early nineteenth century with the death of François-Toussaint Hacquin in 1832 – about the time of the Restauration (of Louis-Philippe to the throne) in 1830.

Ann Massing has a degree in the History of Art and Fine Art from Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana and has the title of Diplom-Restorator from the Institute für Technologie der Malerei, Stuttgart, Germany. She is a painting restorer and was Assistant to the Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute from 1978 to 2007.

This work has been compiled under funding from a British Academy Research Readership from 1995 to 1997 and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2005 to 2006. The Samuel H Kress Foundation contributed towards the cost of the illustrations.

The book may be ordered directly from the publisher, Brepols.

Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-905375-34-9

The conference will take place on Friday, 27 April 2012 and Saturday, 28 April 2012 at CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

•    Student fee (includes lunches and teas/coffees) £30.00
•    Full fee (includes lunches and teas/coffees) £60.00

The Art and Science of Medieval Church Screens will help shape new understandings of old barriers: the richly carved and painted screens which filled medieval churches. These screens divided ‘lay’ from ‘priestly’ jurisdiction, but it has been argued also served to unify architectural space. They are found throughout Europe and survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being part-dismantled during the Reformation.

The conference will bring together art historians, historians of religion, conservators, and conservation scientists, providing the latest scholarship on the subject from both western and eastern Europe. The geographical scope of the conference is equally broad, ranging from Scandinavia to Italy, England to Russia.

The rood screen project at the Hamilton Kerr Institute has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The conference has been convened by the Cambridge University Medieval Panel Painting Research Centre with the support of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

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.

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1711/

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.