The objectives of the network:
• To promote modern and contemporary art conservation within the United Kingdom providing a forum for discussion and debate, including within art schools, and with artists, dealers & curators
• To support the professional development of conservators within this discipline and to collaborate with training institutions
• Establish links with contemporary art conservation networks ensuring a global discourse
• Promote the development of new thinking, researching and innovation with modern and contemporary art conservation
Areas of discussion include:
• Acquisition, display and documentation of contemporary artworks
• Display and installation of artworks, along with packing for storage and transportation
• Documentation of artworks, documenting complex artworks and installations
• Looking at the challenges of managing change with artworks, identifying and managing pending obsolescence with artworks
• Hazards in modern and contemporary artworks
• Working with Living Artists, their studios and dealers, and the artist interview
• Ethics in collecting, preservation, conservation and display
• Storage of complex artworks, creating storage for large scale multi-installation works and bespoke crating solutions
• The complementary roles and responsibilities of conservators, technicians and other institutional staff