Property News · February 1, 2020

Restoration dramas: inside the world of conservation artists


Naval figureheads, ancient art and even Spitting Image puppets are all being brought back to life by a team of crack conservatorsThere is a lot of talk about “loss” in the studio of Hans Thompson and Maxwell Malden. As art conservators, this is traditionally what they deal in: missing pieces that range in size, shape and form. Today, it’s a small chip of plastic from a conceptual sculpture belonging to a contemporary art gallery. Tomorrow, it’s the gilded oak finger of a 17th-century sculpture of St Catherine. Each “loss” comes with a fresh set of practical and ethical challenges.Thompson and Malden founded their studio, Orbis Conservation, in 2013. The pair met at Goldsmiths and both went on to study conservation at City & Guilds of London Art School. “We’d always worked together on freelance jobs,” says Malden, who worked as a gallery technician from the age of 17. “We knew we’d work together at some point. We just didn’t think it would happen quite as quickly.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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