Ballot Archive

11 Feb 2016

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Mary Brooks

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD, MA (Cantab), BA Hons Postgraduate diplomas in Textile Conservation & Management Studies FIIC Conservator ICON

Profession or occupation

Director, MA in International Cultural Heritage Management, Durham University

Grounds for election

In addition to her current post at Durham, she is Joint Editor of Textile History. Previous posts include Monument Fellow, York Castle Museum (2010-12); Head of Studies & Research, Senior Lecturer then Reader & Programme Leader, MA Museums & Galleries, Textile Conservation Centre (1993-2009). With 30 years' experience in textiles, conservation and museology, her research interests cover the cultural significance of museums; the art, social practice and material culture of early modern English embroidery; and the X-radiography of textiles and dress as a tool for curation and conservation. Joint editor of Changing Views of Textile Conservation (2011) and co-author of the pioneering X-Radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects (2007), her extensive list of publications also includes catalogues of the 17th century English needlework collections of Micheal & Elizabeth Feller (2011) and the Ashmolean Museum (2004). Guest curator of the Feller exhibition, The Eye of the Needle (2014).

Signatories

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