PACR Accreditation Committee 2017

Biographies

Katy

Lithgow

ACR

Chair

Julie

Dawson

ACR

Vice

Chair

Sarah

Peek

ACR

Vice

Chair

John

Burbidge

ACR

David

Carrington

ACR

Susan

Catcher

ACR

Steve

Clare

ACR

Pieta

Greaves

ACR

Kerren

Harris

ACR

John

Hartley

ACR

Sarah

Howard

ACR

Mike

Howden

ACR

Rachel

Howells

ACR

Vicki

Humphrey

ACR

Richard

Nichols

ACR

Elliott

Nixon

ACR

Tracey

Seddon

ACR

Fred

van de

Geer

ACR

Katy Lithgow ACR (Chair)

AC Specialism As Chair I don’t represent a specialism any more but until I was Chair I represented Wall

Paintings.

Biography

Head Conservator with The National Trust, based at Swindon. Began career as a Conservator

in 1988 with an internship at the V&A followed by a position with Courtauld Wall Painting

Conservation Department in 1989. Joined The National Trust in 1991 as a Preventive

Conservator for the Midlands and Wales, and became Head Conservator in 2005.

Qualifications

BA Hons (Cantab) Archaeology and Anthropology and History of Art (and MA Cantab).

PgDip Cons Courtauld Institute of Art, Wall painting conservation; Advanced Certificate of

Practical Application; ACR.

Other

Associations

Member of ICOM-CC and IIC. Teaching on preventive conservation for UCL Institute of

Archaeology and Courtauld Institute; sustainability in cultural heritage conservation for

ICCROM; involved in research projects on dust, Heritage Science projects (Parnassus, Change

or Damage) and clusters, and with the EU funded Climate for Culture project; member of

National Heritage Science Strategy group and Trustee of National Heritage Science Forum.

Hobbies

Gardening, photography, travel, art.

Julie Dawson ACR (Vice Chair)

AC Specialism Archaeology

Biography

Worked as a conservator in the U.K., Denmark and Hong Kong before joining the Fitzwilliam

Museum, University of Cambridge in 1984 as Conservator of Antiquities. Since March 2015 has

been the Fitzwilliam’s first Head of Conservation. Chair of the University of Cambridge

Museums (UCM) Conservation and Collections Care Consultation Group.

Qualifications

BSc Hons. Archaeological Conservation (Institute of Archaeology, University of London);

internship at the Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute, Japan; ACR.

Other

Associations

Fellow of IIC. Co-leader of the project for the recovery and conservation of coffins at the site

of Tell el-Amarna, Egypt.

Hobbies

Music and theatre, cycling, cooking. Lapsed beekeeper.

Sarah Peek ACR (Vice Chair)

AC Specialism Ceramics

Biography

Began my career as an Art teacher working with primary age children in the US before

moving back to England to attend West Dean. For nearly 20 years I have run my own

commercial conservation studio in Brighton looking after ceramics during auction process, for

exhibition, private collectors and lovely members of the public.

Qualifications

BA Art, PGDip Conservation West Dean Ceramic and Related Materials. Chemistry for

Conservators, Preventive Conservation short course, ACR

Other

Associations

National Trust, IIC, Icon

Hobbies

Gardening, running, travel, cooking and spending time with my family.

John Burbidge ACR

AC Specialism Wall Painting/Polychrome Sculpture

Biography

Partner (retired) of London based restoration and conservation business Granville and

Burbidge. Began career working as a carpenter for the restorer Angela Camargo, who was

responsible for the UNESCO backed conservation of the polychrome wooden altars in the

Spanish colonial church of Orosi, Costa Rica. Inspired, he travelled to Florence to study the

restoration of sculpture and then won a succession of internships with institutes in Bonn,

Brussels and Stockholm.

Qualifications

Dip. Rest. Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence. ACR

Hobbies

Gardening, photography

David Carrington ACR

AC Specialism Stone and plaster

Biography

Director of Skillington Workshop, private conservation firm, since founding in 1997. Prior to that

worked for various private conservation firms. Also worked as an archaeological conservator

at the Museum of London. Consultant conservator to Lincoln Cathedral.

Qualifications

BSc (hons) in Archaeological Conservation from Cardiff, 1986; MA in Conservation Studies,

University of York, 1993; DPhil in Archaeology, University of York, 2001.

Other

Associations

Member of Durham Cathedral FAC. Conservation Cases Recorder for the Church Monuments

Society. SPAB caseworker. Member of IIC as well as Icon.

Hobbies Motorcycles, rugby union, mountains.

Susan Catcher ACR

AC Specialism Works of Art on Paper

Biography Based at the V&A specialising in mixed media, ephemera and Eastern works of Art, especially

Chinese and wallpaper.

Qualifications BA History of Art, MA Conservation. ACR

Other

Associations

IIC

Hobbies

Enjoys gardening and tennis.

Steve Clare ACR

AC Specialism Stained Glass

Biography

Following five years at Art School in the seventies, studying fine art and silversmithing, I took a

five-year apprenticeship route into stained glass commencing 1980 at the Fulham

Glasshouse. Ten years working with my mentor Alfred Fisher at Chapel Studio, Hertfordshire

I set up Holy Well Glass, an independent conservation studio in 1995, and have worked at

many of the great cathedrals, churches and houses in the UK. Recently supervising major

projects at Worcester, Winchester, and Exeter.

Qualifications

Fine Art Foundation, DipAd silversmithing FMGP, ACR

Other

Associations

National Trust, SPAB, BSMGP, Glaziers Company, AABC

Hobbies

Ancient motor cars

Pieta Greaves ACR

AC Specialism Objects

Biography

Prior to being appointed as Staffordshire hoard conservation coordinator, I was employed at

AOC Archaeology as Senior Conservator. I have been an accredited member of Institute of

Conservation since 2011. I have worked on some of the most important archaeological

assemblages from Scottish sites excavated in the last few years, such as the Viking boat burial

from Ardnamurchan, the wooden lyre bridge from High Pasture Cave as well as the

internationally significant Roman altars from Inveresk. I have also worked on an extensive

range of other object types including social history, arms and armour, statues and sculpture,

also carrying out preventive and remedial conservation for exhibition, loans, storage and

research.

Qualifications BA (Hons) Anthopology/Geography -Auckland University NZ. BSc Conservation of objects:

Museums and Archaeology- Cardiff University MSc Architectral Conservation -University of

Edinburgh.

Other

Associations

IIC, Maya Research Project

Hobbies

Anything archaeological, keeping my 20-year-old, one eyed cat happy/alive.

Kerren Harris ACR

AC Specialism Preventive Conservation

Biography

Conservator with Historic Royal Palaces working on Paper Conservation, IPM, Storage,

Collections Management, showcase design Environmental management, Risk Management,

Salvage, Project Management

Qualifications

BA(Hons) Paper Conservation, PgDip Museum Studies. ACR

Other

Associations

Icon Collections Care committee

Hobbies

Chocolate

John Hartley ACR

AC Specialism Furniture and historic joinery

Biography

1977 founded Tankerdale Ltd with Hugh Routh.

1979 became one of the National Trust’s three furniture conservation advisers (the others

being Hugh Routh and John Hart, both now retired).

Qualifications

Educated at Bryanston School, Dorset, and Bedales School, Petersfield. Initially studied

Mechanical Engineering at Portsmouth Polytechnic whilst working for Vickers Sperry Rand in

Havant.

Other

Associations

Icon-PACR Assessor from 2003-2015

Member of IIC and Furniture History Society

Occasional lecturer at West Dean College

Hobbies

Sailing

Sarah Howard ACR

AC Specialism Textiles

Biography

Freelance Conservation Manager/Textile Conservator. Recent roles have included

Conservation Manager at the Imperial War Museum during the regeneration of their London

Galleries and project manager at Cliveden Conservation Workshop Ltd.

Qualifications

BA in History, PGDip Textile Conservation at The Textile Conservation Centre/ Courtauld

Institute of Art. Prince 2 Practitioner. ACR

Other

Associations

Trustee at Petersfield Museum, Member of the Dress and Textiles Specialists Subject Network

and the Museums Association

Hobbies

Yoga, volunteer helper with the Winchester Young Carers

Mike Howden ACR

AC Specialism Gilding and Decorated Surfaces

Biography

Private practice conserving carved and/or gilded objects. Began career in Conservation with

internships at the Royal Collection and Tate Gallery.

Qualifications

BSc(Hons)Conservation and Restoration. ACR

Hobbies

Carving, cooking, walking the dogs.

Rachel Howells ACR

AC Specialism Easel Paintings

Biography

Private practice conserving easel paintings based in South Wales area. Began career

working for the Area Museum Service for Yorkshire and South Humberside.

Qualifications

BSc. in Chemistry with Education, Pg Dip in the Conservation and Restoration of Easel

paintings Courtauld Institute of Art 1984, ACR

Other

Associations

Member of Icon, ICOM and BAPCR

Hobbies

Painting, gardening and singing

Vicki Humphrey ACR

AC Specialism Management, Books and Paper

Biography

Head of Conservation at the National Museum of Australia, previously Head of Conservation

at the British Library, Assistant Director of Artlab Australia and first conservator working at Royal

Botanic Gardens, Kew. Also engaged as the Quality Assurance Consultant for Collections

Protection during the redevelopment of the National Library of New Zealand.

Qualifications

BSc(Arch), HND Conservation Studies, International Certificate in Risk Management, Prince2

Practitioner, ACR

Other

Associations

Icon Publications Committee, AICCM Education Standing Committee, Member of IIC, ICOM-

CC, IAMFA

Hobbies

Gardening, Time with my Border Collie, Travel, trying new things – flying, scuba diving.

Richard Nicholls ACR

AC Specialism Archives, Books and Paper

Biography

Senior Conservator at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service. Previously worked at

London Metropolitan Archives and Hertfordshire and Derbyshire Record Offices.

Qualifications

Certificate in Archive Preservation and Conservation,

Camberwell College of Arts, 1976. ACR

Other

Associations

Member of Icon (formerly IPC) and Archives and Records Association, both since 1976.

Member of Society of Bookbinders. Instructor on ARA training scheme for Conservators,

teaching conservation of Paper, Parchment, Bookbindings. Occasional lecturer, Camberwell

College of Arts, University of the Arts, London.

Hobbies

Regular squash player, runner and Mountain Marathon participant, occasional bicycle

commuter. Pet black Labrador.

Elliott Nixon ACR

AC Specialism Horology

Biography

After technically qualifying and a short time at Buckingham Palace, I spent 10 years at the

British Museum followed by becoming a freelance horological conservator (part-time)

undertaking commission primarily for museums and the National Trust.

Qualifications

2 Undergraduate and 1 post graduate History degrees, ACR, Fellow British Horological Inst.

(Retired and Resigned)

Hobbies

Enjoying life in as many ways as possible

Tracey Seddon ACR

AC Specialism Ethnography and general organic materials

Biography

Organics Conservator for National Museums Liverpool.

Began career as a trainee with Merseyside County Museums and in that role studied for the

Diploma in Archaeological Conservation at the Institute of Archaeology 1987-1989.

Established the Organics Conservation Section for NML. Responsible for lPM, preventive

conservation, collections management, objects conservation.

I achieved ACR status in 2002 and became an assessor in 2003.

Qualifications

DipCons (Archaeological Conservation); ACR

Other

Associations

IIC

Hobbies

Beekeeping, reading, gardening

Fred van de Geer ACR

AC Specialism Social and Industrial History Objects

Biography

Conservation is my second career, which started at the Hampshire Museums Service in

Winchester on a one year MGC-funded internship and continued full-time for eight more

years. Since 2006 I work as conservator for the University of Reading which encompasses five

collections with the main one being the Museum of English Rural Life.

Qualifications

BA Conservation & Restoration Lincoln, ACR

Hobbies

Walking, Gardening, History