Conservation By Design Reveals 2017 Scholarship Winner Conservation By Design Limited (CXD) has announced that Lucilla Ronai, from Australia, a paper conservator working at the Australian National Maritime Museum, is the lucky recipient of this years sought after Nicholas Hadgraft Memorial Scholarship. The renowned scholarship, first awarded in 2005, offers one conservator each year the opportunity to learn more about unique bookbinding techniques from a host of well known and highly regarded tutors. The judging panel, made up of Cheryl Porter, Jim Bloxam, Alan Farrant and CXDs Stuart Welch, had quite a task to carefully consider this years applications from the many outstanding candidates. The panel felt Nicholas Hadgraft would have approved of their unanimous winning choice.
Lucilla, who describes herself as an emerging conservation professional, will receive 1500 GBP to put towards attending three of the Montefiascone Summer School courses in Italy. Feeling there is limited access to specialist teachers and a lack of formal book conservation training in Australia, Lucilla believes this is her opportunity to gain a deeper knowledge of historical structures and methods of book construction. Following the course she is keen to share her enriched skill and understanding with her fellow conservation professionals in Australia, realise her dream of completing further formal overseas training in her steps towards pursuing a career in book conservation. Lucilla commented: I am incredibly honoured to receive this coveted scholarship and wish to thank Conservation by Design for providing such an opportunity to conservators around the world each year. I am delighted that it will enable me to attend the Montefiascone Book Conservation Summer School in Italy. It is hard for me to put into words how excited I am to be able to have the Montefiascone experience; weeks of learning about fascinating book structures, gaining invaluable knowledge, skills and bookbinding techniques from world class instructors whilst surrounded by a medieval town! It is without a doubt the opportunity of a lifetime. Dirk Hendrickx, CXD’s Managing Director, delivered the judges news to Lucilla by telephone shortly after she responded to a middle of the night text in Australia: CXD are proud that the scholarship is so highly regarded within the conservation sector. This year we recorded the highest amount of applicants to date and the judges were overwhelmed by the consistent quality and professionalism shown in the majority. To assist with the decision making, the judges focused on elements that made candidates truly stand out from the crowd. For the fifth year running, we decided to award a runner-up prize. Maria Fernanda Martinez Rocha, based in Mexico, teaches workshops on Conservation of Bibliographic Material, and Paper Conservation at the National School of Conservation Restoration and Museology and also works at the private workshop of Martha Romero and Luis Enríquez as a book conservator. For further information on the Nicholas Hadgraft Memorial Scholarship, contact Conservation By Design on +44 (0) 1234 846300 or visit www.conservation-by-design.co.uk <http://www.conservation-by-design.co.uk/>. ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
