We provide professional, quality conservation services for artistic and archival materials on paper. We offer a full range of conservation treatments for a wide variety of paper-based objects for both institutional and private clients.
Our staff provide the highest level of professionalism in paper and leather object conservation. Our service provides the highest level of professionalism and all work undertaken by our team follows the Icon Conservation's Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice.
Our staff provide the highest level of professionalism in paper and leather object conservation. Our service provides the highest level of professionalism and all work undertaken by our team follows the Icon Conservation's Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice.
Ela Wiklo has over 30 years of experience in the conservation and preservation field. She is a paper conservation consultant and a senior conservator at the Art and Archival Conservation Services.
She is an Accredited Member of Icon (Institute of Conservation - Icon) and an Accredited Conservator-Restorer.
Accredited Conservator-Restorer (ACR) status demonstrates that a practitioner is a fully qualified and capable professional
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
European and British standards in preservation and conservation, The Archives and Records Association, UK and Ireland, Conference Manchester 2017
Ethical challenges in conservation treatment: Industrial heritage archival materials, IADA International Association of Archive, Berlin 2015
Conflict commemorations, A Glasgow Preservation Project Raising the Complex Narratives of War-time Records, The Scottish Council on Archive, Broadsheet, Issue 35, 2015
Process of documentation of archival materials during conservation, Archives and Records Association Conference 'Survival of the Fittest: strengths, skills and priorities for 2014 and beyond', 2014
George Gilbert Scott at the University of Glasgow, The Scottish Council on Archives, Broadsheet, Issue 24, 2013
Conservator’s perspective, The Scottish Council on Archives, Broadsheet, Issue 19, 2012
University of Glasgow Blackhouse Charter Conservation, The Scottish Council on Archives, Broadsheet, Issue 13, 2012
Blackhouse Charter Conservation Project, Parchment and leather – research, conservation-restoration, craftsmanship, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland 2010
Vatican Library, 2016
TRAINING AND COURSES
• Preservation and Conservation of Japanese Documents
VATICAN LIBRARY (October 2016)
• Conservation of Photographs
WEST DEAN COLLEGE (November 2015)
• Project Management in Conservation and Collections Care
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (October 2012)
• Integrated Pest Management Training (February 2007)
VATICAN LIBRARY (October 2016)
• Conservation of Photographs
WEST DEAN COLLEGE (November 2015)
• Project Management in Conservation and Collections Care
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (October 2012)
• Integrated Pest Management Training (February 2007)