Submitted by aarAdmin on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 00:00
Internationally famous ceramics restorer and conservator Penny Fisher will be the guest lecturer at a master class in ceramic restoration from Monday March 17 to Friday March 21 at the Living and Learning Centre 6B Henry Street, Pakenham.
The five-day course (from 10am-4pm each day) is being run by course convenor Alison Berton, who runs a small antiques and collectibles business in Melbourne’s south.
The course, which costs $995 and includes extensive notes and a comprehensive repair kit for participants to take home, will cover the basic techniques used in ceramics restoration, and identification of different ceramic bodies.
It will highlight old methods of restoration and materials that may be encountered when dealing with past repairs and reveal how to remove these in order to carry out the modern equivalent.
Participants are encouraged to bring old and newly broken items and other with missing parts and will be guided in techniques of dismantling, cleaning, adhesion, filling, retouching and gilding of the pieces in question.
Penny Fisher, who was once locked in a vault to check the Queen Elizabeth II’s crown jewels, has more than 40 years conservator experience.
She began training in 1977 with the newly formed conservation department at the British Museum and ended up as chief conservator.
She also has consulted for many world-renowned museums and organisations including the Ashmolean Museum, The Wallace Collection, the Rijks Museum, and the National Trust.
Among prestigious objects on which Penny has worked is the Sophilos Vase, a large and important black figure dinos and stand, an outstanding collection of 17th century enamels and a pair of Anglo Saxon glass beakers known as the Taplow Beakers.
Contact Alison Berton on 0429 191 833 or (03) 5942 7708 or email berton@internode.on.net
