THANGKA CONSERVATION MASTERCLASS Wednesday 04 March to Friday 06 March 2015 The Clothworkers' Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion, V&A Museum, London, UK http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/visiting-the-clothworkers-centre-for-textiles-and-fashion-study-and-conservation/ Lead by Teresa Heady £350.00 A discount will be available for students, ICCOM-CC, AIC, CCI and ICON members. The course will consist of an historical over view of thangkas, it will touch on the geometry and design elements and focus on current conservation techniques. The 3 day practical workshop will cover the conservation of all elements of Buddhist Thangkas. Concentrating mainly on how to examine, analyse materials, condition check, consolidate, support and treat the different surfaces. There will be practical conservation elements that deal with the painted surface, the textiles borders, the cording and the rods. Throughout the workshop there will be time to discuss different conservation approaches and the philosophical and religious aspects of conserving sacred and cultural important objects. There will also be the opportunity to see objects from the V&A’s Thangka Collection with Dr. John Clarke, Curator of the Himalayan and Southeast Asian Collections. This course is open to conservators and conservation students. Please contact events@shangshunguk.org or Anne Bancroft a.bancroft@vam.ac.uk for further information.

About Teresa: Teresa Heady has worked as a textile and ethnographic conservator for over 25 years, first at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, freelancing for several years after leaving the Met, then took up a position at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco before emigrating to England to be first year Lecturer at the Textile Conservation Centre at Hampton Court. From there she moved to be Deputy Head of Collections Conservation and Care at the Horniman Museum and Gardens. While there for 6 years she also was acting Head and spent several months teaching preventive conservation and conservation in Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal and India. While t on sabbatical for a year she worked with the Textile and Thangka collections among other conservation duties at the Rikjes Musee voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, the Netherlands. From there she worked in Nepal as part of a team from UNESCO teaching the conservation of Thangka paintings to a group of Nepalese, Bhutanese, Tibetan and Indian professional conservators, collections care managers and monks from different monasteries throughout the Himalayas. For the past 10 years she has been the Senior Objects conservator at St Paul’s Cathedral, London and has various duties from collections care to the conservation of objects, preventive conservation and environmental monitoring of the entire contents of the Cathedral. She still spends time teaching conservation at the Cathedral via student placements and thangka conservation workshops in Europe and Asia.