Catherine Nunn
Paintings Conservator
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 9348 5700
- Email:
- cnunn@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 9348 5656
- Location:
- Public Records Office of Victoria
99 Shiel St
North Melbourne VIC 3051
Profile
Biography
Catherine is a painting conservator at the Centre and also delivers into the Masters teaching program. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Painting Conservation from the University of Canberra (1998) and undertook a post-graduate internship at the Ian Potter Art Conservation Centre (1999). Catherine worked as a painting conservator in New Zealand at the Auckland Art Gallery and from 2003-5 she undertook a two-year Advanced Internship in the Conservation of Easel Paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Prior to returning to Australia to take up her position at CCMC in 2007, Catherine worked as a freelance paintings conservator in the private sector in London.
Catherine has specialist skills in the treatment of European paintings on canvas and panel, and 19th Century Australian paintings. She has an interest in technical art history and has published several research papers (see below).
In 2003 Catherine was awarded the Ruth Tuck Visual Arts Scholarship. She has also received a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, Ian Potter Cultural Trust and Gordon Darling Foundation funding to undertake her conservation studies abroad.
Catherine is currently acting Senior Painting Conservator at the Centre and is also enrolled in a Master of Arts by research to investigate the methods and materials of Emanuel Phillips Fox.
Publications
Journal articles (*Refereed Journals)
- *Nunn, C ‘The conservation history of an eighteenth-century collection: caring for the pictures of the Foundling Hospital’ Journal of the Institute of Conservation, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2009, pp. 233-247
- Nunn, C and Kowalski, V ‘Saving Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer: The conservation of a 20th Century painting’ University of Melbourne Collections Magazine, Issue 4, June 2009, pp. 51-52
- *Nunn, C ‘The Making of Lamplight (1911) A preliminary study of the methods and materials of E Phillips Fox’AICCM Bulletin, No.31, 2008, pp 15-27
Conference proceedings (*Refereed Journals)
- Nunn, C ‘Benign neglect and Australian Conservation History’ Paintings Conservation in Australia from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: Connecting the Past to the Future - Contributions to the Eleventh AICCM Paintings Group Symposium, 9-10 October 2008, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, pp 1-10
- *Nunn, C ‘The treatment of an un-lined eighteenth Century British painting in Australia’ extended abstract published in Conservation and Access Contributions to the IIC London Congress, 15-19 September 2008, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London 2008, p. 248
Web Material
- Nunn, C ‘Painting treatment: David and Abigail in the desert c.1650 by Jan Christaensz Micker (1600-64)’ February 2008 http://www.culturalconservation.unimelb.edu.au/portfolio/micker-treatment.html
Press articles
- Nunn, C ‘Review of the London 2008 IIC Congress’ AICCM National Newsletter, No. 109, December 2008, p. 20-21
- Nunn, C ‘Working in the UK: an Australian’s personal experience’ AICCM National Newsletter, No. 95, June 2005, p. 5-6
- Nunn, C ‘SAYAB Artist Profile – Winner of the Ruth Tuck Scholarship’ SAYarts The South Australian Youth Arts Board Round-up, January-June 2005, p. 6
Posters
- Nunn, C ‘The treatment of an un-lined eighteenth Century British painting in Australia’ in Conservation and Access Contributions to the IIC London Congress, 15-19 September 2008, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London 2008
Exhibition Material
- Nunn, C and Phillips, J ‘The Materials and Techniques of E. Phillips Fox’ Perspectives–Conservation and the Art of Investigation Ian Potter Museum of Art 24 November–27 February 2002