Department of Conservation Documentation and Science
British Museum
- from 1979 till retirement in 2006.
Conservation of wall paintings, stone objects and mosaics
2007 – Freelance conservator of wall paintings and stone objects
Lecturer: Stone conservation theory
Publications: Joint paper with N J Lee and D R Elam: Remounting and Conservation of Archaeological Wall Paintings at the British Museum, Jubilee Conservation Conference, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artefacts, University of London, 1987.
Current Practice at the British Museum for the Consolidation of Decayed Porous Stones, The Conservator, No. 16, United Kingdom Institute for Conservation, London, 1992.
The Piranesi Vase, The Art of the Conservator, Edited by A Oddy, British Museum Press, London, 1992.
Aspects of consolidation, (joint paper), Portraits and Masks; Burial Customs in Roman Ancient Egypt, Ed: M Bierbrier, BM Press, London, 1997.
Joint paper with N J Lee R K Uprichard and V Daniels, The Examination and Conservation of the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum, Tradition and Innovation - Advances in Conservation, Melbourne Congress, The International Institute for Conservation, London, 2000.
Joint paper with R B Parkinson, Reflections in a Golden Eye in >Fowling in the Marshes= (British Museum EA37977), Colour and Painting in Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, London, 2001.
The Nebamun Wall Paintings of the British Museum, The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2004.
Joint paper with D Singleton and P Rose, The Taharqo Wall Painting Rescue at Qasr Ibrim, Egypt, The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2004.
Joint paper with D Singleton and P Rose, The Taharqo Wall Painting Rescue Project, Sudan & Nubia, The Sudan Archaeological Research Society, Bulletin No 11, London, 2997
Field-work
1999 Survey and conservation of the wall paintings in the tombs of Horemkhawef and Ny-ankh-Pepi at Hierakonpolis (Kom al Akhmar).
2000 Survey and conservation of the wall paintings in the tombs of Horemkhawef, Ny-ankh-Pepi and Hormeni at Hierakonpolis (Kom al Akhmar).
2001 Survey and conservation of the wall paintings in the tomb of Hormeni at Hierakonpolis and Sataim at Edfu.
2002 Conservation of the wall paintings in the tombs of Sataim at Edfu and Sobeknakht at Elkab.
2003 Organise and take part in the detachment of the wall painting of Taharqa from the Temple of Taharqa at Qasr Ibrim and deliver it to the Nubia Museum at Aswan to await mounting in 2004.
2005 With colleague – David Singleton of the Bristol Museum - attach a backing system to the Taharqa wall painting at the Nubia Museum at Aswan – in preparation for the exhibition and further conservation work in 2006.
2007 With colleagues D Singleton and Leoni Saltzmann – conservation of Taharqo wall painting.
Consultancy 2007 Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London,

