Lecture | Concealments: Textile Conservation as Material Culture | University of Melbourne

dinah_stomacher_x-ray_Concealments: Textile Conservation as Material Culture  | Dr Dinah Eastop, Textile Conservator

Conservation responds to environmental, material and social change, including the emotive responses of people. Dr. Eastop’s paper looks at the response to garments concealed within the structure of buildings many years before recent discovery. She will draw on her work for the Deliberately Concealed Garments Project. She initiated this research project in 1998 to help preserve garments (and other artifacts) found hidden within the structure of buildings.

How such finds are treated post- discovery varies greatly, depending of many factors (e.g. their material form) and the responses they invoke in finders. In recognising the emotional responses of finders to these unusual objects, and the ‘facts’ of the ‘life history’ of these objects, this paper opens up conservation within a network of affective relations across historical time and cultures.

Dr Dinah Eastop is an internationally renowned textile conservator, with over thirty years experience at the UK’s Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) and beyond, notably at ICCROM (the inter governmental conservation body based in Rome, Italy) and The National Archives [UK].

Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2020 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room Sidney Myer Asia Centre The University of Melbourne PARKVILLE VIC 3010

Admission is free. Bookings are required. Seating is limited.

To register visit: http://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/4305-responses-to-concealments-textile-conservation-as-material-culture

For further information please contact Lizz Sayers at elizabeth.sayers@unimelb.edu.au or 8344 1521.