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@modartconserve.bsky.social

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ICON accredited conservator of modern and contemporary art at Tate Modern. Technical art history, replicas, materials. Views are my own.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Nov 15

a starter pack of conservators from various disciplines - please let me know if you'd like to be added, and who I've missed...
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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jul 20

I mean, it is...

modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jul 20

calcium carbonate tubes from marine worms - they live inside them

modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jun 13

so envious!!

modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

also, you reminded me I have this, which I forgot about and should have read before my trip - it looks perfect! 😣

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

many years ago, when we did the Muybridge exhibition at Tate Britain, I got to edit bits of film with Michael Wilson - he was asking my opinion on where to cut and I just about fainted!

modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

I love it when this happens- I've mapped out a whole US trip I plan to do all because I saw one photo from 100yrs ago- those connections firing off like synapses on a jolly! I'll look up the book 🙏 And I have more (literal) digging around to do in SF, so maybe we can dig a bit together when I'm back

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

I think that's understandable. It actually shifted the whole flavour of my stay in California and after visiting I began exploring all kinds of SF histories, looking for the traces at the edges of the city. It was fascinating, and kind of helped me make sense of the place...

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

I got so horribly fixated on that story when I was in the Sierras last year...

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

I think they don't have much on board he wants... he had some peanuts, crackers, and a bit of fried egg from their breakfast - I'm not sure he should be eating egg 🤔

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

George! Thank you Gilly!
He joined my cousin's tiny sailing boat at first light, 500 miles off the coast of Bermuda and heading to the UK... we'll see how long he sticks around 🙏

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

could someone help identify this bird please?

a small bird with yellow and khaki/grey plumage, on a teak deck

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · May 26

ah, well done…I dug this out in case, but probably not enough hands!

modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jan 28

Leigh Bowery’s diary is not entirely as I’d anticipated - which I suppose is exactly right…

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jan 20

Can’t be repeated often enough

‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL

The UK should take a leaf from France’s book to boost arts funding

Tax breaks for corporate sponsors can benefit the creative sector at a time of dwindling public funds

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jan 19

I made a replica 1914 Duncan Grant work a couple of years ago and I managed to get Roberson's rabbit skin glue, the same brand he used - it's still commercially available. But I think he picked it up in person when he was in town - they may have posted materials to artists living remotely though.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jan 19

one-woman-marmalade-factory 🍊

a wooden kitchen work surface with a bowl of Seville oranges

sliced uncooked orange peel in a pan of water, with a muslin bag containing pips and pith

orange peel cooking, the cooking liquid is getting darker

23 glass jars of marmalade on a kitchen work surface

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jan 18

cherry pie and a movie kind of an evening 🖤

a pie on a plate on a wooden kitchen work top with pots and bottles in the background

a slice of cherry pie with some cream, on a plate

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Jan 16

messaging old friends with memories of seeing Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart at the cinema together - hard to explain now how thrilling it was to be seventeen and to fall in that space. All our changes were there.
RIP David Lynch

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chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social · Jan 16

I don’t think “the kids” can understand how radical it was that Twin Peaks was on network tv. It premiered to *34.6 million* viewers. Crazy, man. Agent Cooper was on to something when he said “Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen.” RIP

Variety @variety.com · Jan 16

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78

Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Nov 29

I saw the Lygia Clark at the Whitechapel today - really good and also compact enough for a short visit. And excellent coffee and cakes next door!

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · Nov 29

A new indie bookshop opened today in Norwich. The Holloway is on St Lawrence Steps, St Benedicts Street. Second hand, zines, indie, radical and nature writing... records, film & music nights too. The good stuff.

#supportsmallpublishers

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Nov 29

Peter Kennard’s Filofax, recto and verso.

It is just as you’d imagine.

modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Nov 28

thank you, I'll have a look - sounds lovely 🙏

modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · Nov 28

they've even removed the paper from the top of the cake slices....that was the best thing about Pret imo

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Nov 26

6 words I hate:

playful
vibrant
literary
gobsmacked
passed (died)
date (verb)

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