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3rd August 2011Canova's Three Graces back at Clandon Park (National Trust) The plaster model of the Three Graces by Antonio Canova (1757-1822) has returned to Clandon Park after an absence of seventeen years during which it was conserved by a series of students from City & Guild’s Art of London School’s conservation department.
10th March 2011Students Conserve GF Watts’ GraveDuring a cold but rain free week in February, four second year students from the Conservation department went to Watts Cemetery in Compton (Surrey) to conserve the terracotta grave of the eminent Victorian painter and sculptor G.F. Watts.
9th November 2010The Lapidarium of St. Paul's cathedral is receiving a clean!The arrangement of nearly 500 archaeological stones has been a fascinating element of the Cathedral’s south Triforium since the 1930s. After decades of dust, the stones are at last enjoying a clean at the skilled hands of conservation students from the City & Guilds of London Art School.
10th February 2010Nativity scene, St.Peter's Church, VauxhallSecond year Conservation students spent the Autumn term restoring the polychrome plaster figures of a nativity scene belonging to St.Peter's Church, Vauxhall.
9th February 201017th century Bernini marble sculpture of St. Sebastian
21st May 2009Jamyang Buddhist CentreSecond year Conservation students are involved in a site project at the local Jamyang Buddhist Centre in Kennington.
1st December 2008Conservation students on Work Placement at Westminster AbbeySecond year Conservation students have just completed a work placement at Westminster Abbey.

3rd August 2011

Canova's Three Graces back at Clandon Park (National Trust)

The plaster model of the Three Graces by Antonio Canova (1757-1822) has returned to Clandon Park after an absence of seventeen years during which it was conserved by a series of students from City & Guild’s Art of London School’s conservation department.

Kimberley Reczek and Simon Keeley at the unveiling of the sculpture at Clandon Park – 3 August 2011

Kimberley Reczek and Simon Keeley at the unveiling of the sculpture at Clandon Park – 3 August 2011

The Three Graces were delivered to the Conservation Department in 1994 - in approximately 75 pieces, headless and with major cracks in the body of the cast and finally completed in June 2011. It was one of the longest and most difficult projects in the history of the department, involving remodelling and re-attaching a missing head to one of the Graces, remodelling the left hand and re-attaching the left arm. The final stage of the project that led to the completion of work took about 1,000 hours; it was supervised by two stone conservation tutors Eric Miller and Jennifer Dinsmore and student Kimberley Reczek completed the extensive project.