The Behaviour of Western Artist’s Materials in Tropical Environments
Project activities
Conference Book Chapters
Tse, N & Sloggett, R 2008, ‘Oil Painting Practice in the Philippines: two institutionalised practices and their Materials and Techniques,’ in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, 13-18 January, International Committee of Art History, Melbourne. IN PRESS
Tse, N & Sloggett, R 2008 ‘Southeast Asian Oil Paintings: Supports and Preparatory layers,’ in ICOM-CC Working Group Paintings (ed.), Preparation for painting: the artist’s choice and its Consequence, Archetype Publications: London, in press due March.
Tse, N 2005 ‘The Bohol School of Painting: An Analytical and Archival study of five panel paintings from the Philippines’, in Scientific Research in the Field of Asian Art: Proceedings from the Second Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art. Edited by Paul Jett, J Winter and B MacCarthy, pp. 149-159. Archetype Publications: London.
Journal Articles
Tse, N 2004, ‘What about the Picture Frame?,’ Art Manila Quarterly, vol. IV, no. 3, pp. 88-90.
Tse, N 2003, ‘Caring for your Paintings and Works on Paper,’ Art Manila Quarterly, vol. IV, no. 2.
Press Articles
Tse, N 2004, ‘Research Partnerships for Cultural Materials’ Insite, November- December, p.12.
Tse, N 2004, ‘The Second Forbes Conference on the Pictorial Arts of Asia,’ AICCM Newsletter.
Tse, N 2004 ‘Freer Gallery of Art: Second Forbes Symposium' Art Events Ideas, issue 4, p.6.
Conference proceedings
Tse, N & Sloggett, R 2008, ‘Oil Painting Practice in the Philippines: two institutionalised practices and their Materials and Techniques,’ in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, 13-18 January, International Committee of Art History, Melbourne.
Tse, N 2007, ‘Southeast Asian Oil Paintings: Supports and Preparatory layers’ presented at the Preparation for painting: the artist’s choice and its Consequence, 31 May to 1 June. ICOM-CC Paintings Group, London.
Tse, N 2004, ‘The Bohol School of Painting,’ paper presented to the AICCM Paintings Special Interest Group Conference, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 5-7 March.
Tse, N 2003, ‘The Bohol School of Painting,’ paper presented to the What Lies Beneath: Post Graduate Conference Program, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 6 November.
Public Lectures and Seminars
Roberts, A 2005, ‘Optics for Arts Sake,’ paper presented at the Heritage Conservation Centre, National Heritage Board, Singapore, 24 November.
Tse, N 2005, ‘Collector Considerations,’ paper presented at Penang Sate Museum and Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia, 9 December.
Tse, N and Herrera, V 2005, ‘The Visual Examination and Documentation of the Behaviour of Canvas Paintings in Tropical Environments,’ seminar presented at the JB Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, 27- 29 October.
Tse, N and the Conservation Science Division of the Department of Fine Arts, Thailand 2005, ‘The Visual Examination and Documentation of the Behaviour of Canvas Paintings in Tropical Environments,’ seminar presented at The National Gallery Bangkok, 25-29 May.
Tse, N 2005, ‘The Characterisation of ‘Western’ Art Materials in Tropical Environments,’ paper presented at the Heritage Conservation Centre, Singapore, January.
Tse, N 2005, ‘Collector Considerations,’ paper presented at Balai Seni Lukis Negara (National Art Gallery), Malaysia, January.
Tse, N and Chin, L (HCC) 2004, ‘The Visual Examination and Documentation of the Behaviour of Canvas Paintings in Tropical Environments,’ seminar presented at The National Gallery Bangkok, 22 -23 April.
Tse, N 2004, ‘The Bohol School of Painting,’ paper presented at Executive House, the University of the Philippines, 14 April.
Tse, N and Herrera, V 2004, ‘The Visual Examination and Documentation of the Behaviour of Canvas Paintings in Tropical Environments,’ seminar presented at the JB Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, 15-17 April.
Tse, N and Herrera, V 2003, ‘The Visual Examination and Documentation of the Behaviour of Canvas Paintings in Tropical Environments,’ seminar presented at the JB Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, 7-9 March.
Media
De Cruz, N 2005, ‘Australian Conservator wins Award’ Press release for the National News Agency of Malaysia, viewed 15 May, 2004, www.bernama.com.my.
Melbourne University News, 2005, ‘Award to help art conservator save paintings in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand,’ Melbourne University News, 29 April.
Ongpin, M 2004, ‘Two paintings at Bohol's Baclayon Church' Ambient Voices Today, 18 April, p. 11.
De Leon, N 2003, 'The Vargas Museum gets a Make Over' Manila Times, Philippines, 27 February.
De Leon, N 2003, 'Nicole Tse; As art conservator who has done conservation treatments in Australia and other countries,' Art Manila Quarterly, vol. IV, no. 1, pp.68-69.
2003 'Painting Conservation,' Business World, Philippines, 3 March.
2003 'Art Conservation Workshop at UP,' Tempo, Philippines, 5 March.
2003 'UP to host art conservation workshop,' The Philippines Star, 6 March.
2003 'Art Conservation Workshop,' Philippines Daily Inquirer, 6 March.
Research Exchanges and Field Trips
November 2005: Associate Professor Ann Roberts met with the HCC industry partners and the National University of Singapore.
September 2005: Reciprocal visit of industry partners to the University of Melbourne for the Getty Directors Retreat. Time was allocated to partner liaison and experimental set up (funded by the Getty Foundation
October- December 2004: Assistant Professor Victoria Herrera, University of the Philippines undertook a Visiting Scholars Award from October- December at the University of Melbourne to work on the art historical aspects f the project.
April 2004: Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett met with industry partners to discuss progress of research in Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand (funded by the Gordon Darling Foundation).
2003- 2005: Nicole Tse undertook research field trips to the four partner institutions in March 2003 to JB Vargas Museum, July 2003 HCC, August 2003 BSLN, September 2003 The National Gallery Bangkok, April 2004 JB Vargas Museum, April 2004 The National Gallery Bangkok, December 2004: BSLN, January 2005: HCC, September 2005 The National Gallery Bangkok, October 2005 JB Vargas Museum, November 2005 HCC, December 2005 BSLN.
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