We are professional conservators who specialise in:
Preservation Australia is all about the conservation of cultural material – be it of national significance or a family’s heritage; from First Fleet documents to your grandmother’s wedding photograph.
We evolved from a solo conservation consulting company established in 1994 to a thriving art conservation business with a focus on collection care and specialised conservation treatment – with conservation and archival products offered on the side (www.conservation resources.com.au).
While we are based in Sydney, we work throughout Australia and the Asia/Pacific region – and love to travel!
Our Team
The heart of Preservation Australia is a small, dedicated team of professionally trained conservators – all with a love of art, heritage and working with community.
We operate in the private sector because it allows us to work closely with many different clients and different collections – and we thrive on the personal connections. We regularly have interns, volunteers, part-time conservators and product specialists working with us – which means a bigger cake for morning tea!
While we are all paper conservators, we also have other areas of expertise…Kay in preventive conservation, Tegan in photographic conservation, and Beate in the conservation of decorative surfaces. We have worked as conservators for many years (too many to remember for Kay) and use an extensive network of heritage professionals in Australia and overseas for collaboration and consultation.
A unique business
Originally, Preservation Australia was a standard conservation business but we saw a need for a single point of contact for those requiring conservation services, preservation expertise and archival products – and so we added the Conservation Resources range of products. We then went on to develop the full range of conservation workshops and seminars that keeps us busy both in Australia and overseas – love that travelling!
This combination of expertise, training and products makes Preservation Australia a truly unique conservation business that has been crafted to allow us to work closely with our clients in a personal manner that we all value. We have clients that we have worked with for many years – sometimes for conservation treatment, sometimes it is an environmental problem, and sometimes it is just a phone call or email for advice. The point is, we enjoy developing close and on-going working relationships to ensure that your collection is preserved in the long-term.
We bring practical and ethical conservation solutions to the most difficult situations.
