Friday 30th September 2011 Conference: ‘Ripping Yarns: Traditions and Advances in the Structural Repair of Canvas Paintings’

This year’s conference was held at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand, London.

The subjects of the lectures were:

• Philip Robinson:‘Paste Lining in the Twenty-first Century: a Traditional Lining Technique Brought Up to Date’
• Paul Ackroyd: ‘The Structural Treatment a Large Bomb-damaged Painting: Paul Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted by Cromwell’s Soldiers’
• Kate Seymour and Jos van Och: ‘Mist Lining: an Introduction to the Lining Process and Case Studies’
• Sarah Maisey: ‘Flood, Flaking and Fragmentation: Reinstating the Remains of a John Martin Painting’
• Paul Gardner and Laura Mills: ‘Protective and Supportive Backings for Canvas Paintings at Tate’
• Christina Young: ‘Fabrics for the Twenty-first Century: as Artists’ Canvas, and for the Structural Reinforcement of Easel Paintings on Canvas’
• Kinga Piotrowska: ‘Minimal Tear Repair and Cast Inpainting: a Treatment of a Damaged Painting by Ed Ruscha’