Conserving Art: restoring a painting at the Grimwade

Tucked away in the Victorian Archives Centre, which houses around 100km of public records dating back to the 1830s, are the laboratories of Grimwade Conservation Services. Grimwade Conservation Services specialises in the restoration and museum-standard conservation of art, including paintings, works on paper, textiles, inorganic objects such as ceramics, and archaeological materials.

Like the archives, the labs are places where histories and stories long forgotten can be rediscovered.

Late last year the painting conservation team, led by Senior Paintings Conservator Cushla Hill, worked to restore a small oil painting by Australian artist Hugh Ramsay (1877-1906), whose work is currently on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
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