Priority Conservation

In 2003 the Gallery’s conservation staff drew up an annual conservation action plan which identifies priority conservation works to be undertaken each year. Since that time the following works have been conserved:

  • Darani Lewers. Downpipe c. 1964: fc (more)
  • Paul Hopmeier. Three Wise Men 1982: fc
  • ‘Bim’ Hilder. The Bridge Concrete (no date): rf
  • Roy Fluke. Untitled (no date): rf
  • Arthur Dallimore. After Christmas c.1978: rf
  • Ron Robertson-Swann. Ascension 1975: fc
  • Wendy Paramor. Alpha II 1968: c
  • Elwyn Lynn. Herculaneun 1961: c
  • Ralph Balson. Construction Element 1944: fc
  • John Olsen. Child’s Fifth Birthday 1957: fc/rf
  • Elwyn Lynn. Cliffs at Fall c. 1961: fc/rf
  • Desiderius Orban. Scyll and Charybis 1976: fc
  • Carl Plate. Anachronistic Segments 1960 – 1963: fc/rf
  • Stanislaus Rapotec. Black Phite 1960: fc/rf
  • Stanislaus Rapotec. Untitled 1968: fc/rf
  • Henry Salkauskus. Untitled 1964: c/rf
  • Henry Salkauskus. Untitled 1961: c/rf
  • Henry Salkauskus. Untitled 1961: c/rf
  • Tony Tuckson. # 13 c. 1959: fc/rf
  • Peter Upward July 10th 1961: c/rf
  • Peter Upward. Untitled (Abstract) 1963: fc
  • Peter Upward. Untitled 1960: fc
  • Leon Urbonas. Edge 1965: c/rf
  • Guy Warren. Untitled 1966: c/rf
  • Guy Warren. The Clearing III 1965: c/rf
  • Reinis Zusters. Low Tide 1980: c/rf
  • Harold Abbott. Flight 1971: c/rf
  • Harold Abbott. Abstract 1975: c/rf
  • Ralph Balson. The Construction…Transparent Planes 1942: fc/rf
  • Mimi Jaksic Berger. Marquesus Feast 1967: fc/rf
  • Mimi Jaksic Berger. Tasmania Afire 1967: fc/rf
  • Nancy Borlase. Blue Centre 1960: fc/rf
  • Kevin Connor. Officer in the Wilderness 1962: c/rf
  • Shay Docking. Glass House Mountains Work III 1963: c/rf
  • Roy Fluke. Night 1953: c/rf
  • Thomas Gleghorn. The Sacrifice – The Firebird 1959: c/rf
  • Paul Haefliger. The Dancer 1970: c/rf
  • Leonard Hessing. The Indifferent Mechanism 1960: c/rf
  • Frank Hodgkinson. Abstract No 17 1958: c/rf
  • Louis James. Paleolithic 1963: c/rf
  • Michael Kitching. Spanish Dancer 1962: c/rf
  • Eva Kubos. Coast 1968: c/rf
  • Eva Kubos. Untitled: c/rf
  • Peter Laverty. Wet Night City 1959: c/rf
  • Yvonne Audette. Dream of an Ancient Tablet: fc/rf
  • Lyndon Dadswell, Untitled, 1960: c

Conservation programs have been carried out by Mr. Geoffrey Major (former Head of Conservation for the National Gallery of Australia); M/s. Catherine Lillico-Thompson and International Conservation Services; Ross Peck Framing.

Key to terms: fc – full conservation; rf – re-framed; c - cleaned
 

Ralph Balson, The Construction...Transparent Planes 1942, oil on cardboardThomas Gleghorn, The Sacrifice - The Firebird 1959, oil on masonitePeter Upward, July Tenth 1961, PVA on board