Archetype Publications/IAP (International Academic Projects)
Brief outline of your main responsibilities (Max 250 words)
Main responsibilities at Archetype & IAP were assisting with the editing and translation of art conservation books which were being translated into Portuguese and Spanish; assisting with the organizing and running of courses in England and South America; receiving book orders and helping packing up books; working at conferences where Archetype had a book stand, and assisting with general office organisation such as invoicing, taking phone messages, replying to and sending out emails.
Reason for leaving or wanting to leave*
The position at Archetype/IAP is not full-time and hour are work dependent, the office is small and …show more content…
General responsibilities were very broad and included researching object information (e.g. artist, sitter, technique, etc.), pulling records from conservation files and contacting conservators if files were missing to establish objects' conservation histories, researching through the Records Office to gain provenance histories, rationalizing object files and suggesting cases for accessioning or not. In order to achieve these objectives I contacted museums and archives across the world to gather more information about our sculptures; I also contacted different departments at UCL to try to locate sculptures which we only knew by title and artist but whose locations were unknown. It was also my responsibility to check which sculptures were still within copyright and track and contact their copyright …show more content…
I believe that I have advanced research skills; for example, when I was heading UCL Art Museum sculpture audit, I worked with an eighteenth-century carved pedestal about which very little was known. To find more about the pedestal, I researched through the museum’s archives and records, and read letters from the donor to try to establish a date and a maker. The style of the pedestal made me suspect that it could be the work of Robert Adam. This hypothesis led me to the British Library where I searched across various relevant furniture books as well as to John Soane Museum collection of Adam’s drawings to try to establish a relationship between our pedestal and Adam's designs. After contacting the Art Fund about this 1950s bequest I discovered that the pedestal was not bequeathed to UCL Art Museum through them as stated in the donor’s letter. Art Fund had no record of the donor and this led me to believe that the donor probably had a last minute change of mind. My research allowed me to gather significant information on this pedestal and supplement its file with information which could be very useful for researchers. Another example would be a group of 12 plaster medals after Renaissance bronze originals which
Brief outline of your main responsibilities (Max 250 words)
Main responsibilities at Archetype & IAP were assisting with the editing and translation of art conservation books which were being translated into Portuguese and Spanish; assisting with the organizing and running of courses in England and South America; receiving book orders and helping packing up books; working at conferences where Archetype had a book stand, and assisting with general office organisation such as invoicing, taking phone messages, replying to and sending out emails.
Reason for leaving or wanting to leave*
The position at Archetype/IAP is not full-time and hour are work dependent, the office is small and …show more content…
General responsibilities were very broad and included researching object information (e.g. artist, sitter, technique, etc.), pulling records from conservation files and contacting conservators if files were missing to establish objects' conservation histories, researching through the Records Office to gain provenance histories, rationalizing object files and suggesting cases for accessioning or not. In order to achieve these objectives I contacted museums and archives across the world to gather more information about our sculptures; I also contacted different departments at UCL to try to locate sculptures which we only knew by title and artist but whose locations were unknown. It was also my responsibility to check which sculptures were still within copyright and track and contact their copyright …show more content…
I believe that I have advanced research skills; for example, when I was heading UCL Art Museum sculpture audit, I worked with an eighteenth-century carved pedestal about which very little was known. To find more about the pedestal, I researched through the museum’s archives and records, and read letters from the donor to try to establish a date and a maker. The style of the pedestal made me suspect that it could be the work of Robert Adam. This hypothesis led me to the British Library where I searched across various relevant furniture books as well as to John Soane Museum collection of Adam’s drawings to try to establish a relationship between our pedestal and Adam's designs. After contacting the Art Fund about this 1950s bequest I discovered that the pedestal was not bequeathed to UCL Art Museum through them as stated in the donor’s letter. Art Fund had no record of the donor and this led me to believe that the donor probably had a last minute change of mind. My research allowed me to gather significant information on this pedestal and supplement its file with information which could be very useful for researchers. Another example would be a group of 12 plaster medals after Renaissance bronze originals which