The most recent issue of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of the Cultural Materials Conservation Bulletin is available now. This issue ranges from Robyn Sloggett on national conservation policy to studies of Boorun’s Canoe by Steaphan Paton and Cameron Cope, of a work by Ron Mueck and of several paintings by the pioneering Singapore artist Georgette Chen.
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Robyn Sloggett ‘A national conservation policy for a new millennium—building opportunity, extending capacity and securing integration in cultural materials conservation’
Susanna Collis ‘Revisiting conservation treatment methodologies for waterlogged archaeological wood: an Australian study’
Samantha Hamilton and Steaphan Paton ‘Boorun’s Canoe’
Amanda Pagliarino and Michael Marendy ‘Ron Mueck in bed (2005)—a contemporary textile challenge’
Céline De Courlon, Simon Ives and Paula Dredge ‘Fields of colour: the conservation of matt, synthetic paintings by Michael Johnson’
Eliza O’Donnell, Nicole Tse and Amerrudin Ahmad ‘Material availability and painting practice: a Case Study of Singapore Artist Georgette Chen’
Lucy Willet, Mick Newnham and Petronella Nel ‘Preliminary testing of tea leaves as alternative adsorbants for preserving early cellulosic motion picture film’
Somayeh Soleymani, Tracy Ireland and Dennis McNevin ‘Toning Japanese tissue papers: an International Survey of Paper Conservation Practitioners’