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"PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION"
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Radio Noida 107.4 - Women Achievers with Priya Kapoor
Restorer & Fine art Conservator "Priya Kapoor" in conversation with RJ Sushil Bharti of Radio Noida; where she speaks about the importance of 'Preventive Conservation' and how it is more significant than 'Restoration' per se. She also speaks about her other expertise, viz. 'Paper Conservation' .
INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION
Timeline
June 2001
Conservation of the Poster Paintings
for All India Centre for Urban and Rural Development, New Delhi.
June 2001
August 2002
Worked on restoration of ‘Chola Bronzes’ in Government Museum,
Pondicherry, a Project by National museum Conservation Laboratory, National museum, Delhi.
April 2003
Worked as Restorer in Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art,
instituted by Sanskriti Pratisthan, New Delhi. Independently set up the conservation laboratory for the restoration of the art objects in the collection of Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art. Storage and preventive conservation of collection of Museum of Indian Textiles at Sanskriti Pratisthan.
April 2003
May 2003
Restoration of Qajar Paintings in Ashoka Hall, Rashtrapati Bhawan,
New Delhi. Dismantling of the 9 panels from 60 feet high ceiling, largest panel being 12X18 feet followed by restoration.
April 2004 - April 2006
Various Conservation & Restoration Projects
My work has involved activities pertaining to the restoration of different types of art objects in the Museum of Everyday Art and Museum of Indian Terracotta Instituted by Sanskriti Foundation. The collection included textiles, bronzes, metallic objects, paper and oil paintings. My work also involved documentation - written, graphic and photographic.
I had been single handedly working on the personal collections of oil paintings and paper paintings of the President of Sanskriti Pratisthan and finally coordinated to have auction of these art works with Osian’s, an auction house to raise the corpus of the NGO.
Organizing workshop on preventive and curative conservation in association with Sanskriti Pratisthan and National Museum Institute, New Delhi, has also been part of my work profile.
Successfully initiated and coordinated all the activities pertaining to the setting up of the conservation laboratory for Tribal Art and Textile Museum Society, Dimapur, Nagaland.
Consultant for designing preservation plans for archival collections of cinema posters and signages for Rickshaw Recycle Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
April 2004 - April 2006
October 2006
Restoration of Oil Paintings in Ashoka Hall, Rashtrapati Bhawan
October 2007
Restoration of Nandlal Bose Collection at National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi
October 2007
January 2010
Various Conservation Projects
2010 - 2011
Restoration and Consultancy Projects
Restoration of Paintings, Textiles and Organic objects for Austrian Embassy, New Delhi- 2011
Three months consultancy for TATA Dorabji Trust, TATA Resurgence Project, Mumbai
Conservation Consultant “Sanskriti Museums” Sanskriti Pratisthan, New Delhi.- 2015-17
Consultant “ Haveli Research Centre for Textiles”, New Delhi- 2010-11
Conservation Consultant, “Tribal Art and Textile Museum Society”, Dimapur, Nagaland- 2008-9
Conservation Consultant, “Rajputana Rifle Museum”, Delhi Cantt, Delhi- 2009-10
2010 - 2011
2012- 2014
Projects on Preventive Conservation and Storage Design
Storage and preventive conservation of art project for Lekha & Anupam Poddar at Devi Art Foundation, Sirpur house, Gurgaon, India- 2014
Preservation and storage plan for Photo archive of David Belly, British photographer for Anglian Holdings, UAE, based in India
Collection management, storage and preservation of art project at Apeejay Surrender Group Pvt Ltd, Delhi- 2012-14
2014- 2016
Preventive Conservation and Storage Design projects:
Consultancy for Film Heritage Foundation, Mumbai for their Non Filmic archive. Storage design and fabrication supervision, preventive conservation plan, labeling of material categories for 18000 works. Consultancy on documentation and development of inventory software is also part of the project along with disaster recovery and salvaging in case of emergency.-2015-ongoing
2014- 2016
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