Ballot Archive

27 Apr 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Ann French

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA Hons, History, Sheffield Diploma in Conservation, V&A ICON PACR accredited conservator

Profession or occupation

Conservator/Collections historian

Grounds for election

Ann French is a distinguished conservator & collections historian whose work joins the study of material culture, archival practice, gender and the history of collecting. Joint-winner of the Jerwood Award for Conservation for work on the Othery Cope, she is Collections Care Manager/Conservator (Textiles) at The Whitworth, Manchester. Her wide range of professional offices includes secretary of the Scottish Society for Conservation & Restoration. Her current research on early-20th c Greek Embroidery Collections includes cataloguing associated archives, highlighting the role of Mediterranean archaeologists in categorising motifs and techniques in 18th-20th c textiles purchased during their travels, an analytical practice interconnected with wider European questions of periodisation and taxonomy. She has lectured and published widely, with a monograph in preparation: Untangling and unpicking: The Greek embroidery collecting and collections of Alan Wace and Richard MacGillivray Dawkins.

Signatories

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