Anna Frances O'Regan

Project Collections Assistant at National Conservation Service
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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, GB
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Credentials

  • Writing Under a Deadline
    LinkedIn
    Aug, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Writing a Compelling Blog Post
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    Aug, 2020
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • National Conservation Service
    • United Kingdom
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Project Collections Assistant
      • Dec 2022 - Present

      • Library archive and special collections store room clean after building works occurred.• Methodically dusted shelf by shelf using microfibre cloths and a Museum Vac in teams of two. • Library archive and special collections store room clean after building works occurred.• Methodically dusted shelf by shelf using microfibre cloths and a Museum Vac in teams of two.

  • Framework Picture Framers
    • Artists and Writers
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Picture Framer
      • Sep 2021 - Present

      • Cutting, joining, and hand finishing wooden frames using a Casese and foot-operated Moreso.• Cutting glass, backing boards, museum board, and window mounts for frames using a +Gunnar 601-RS and KeenCut board and glass cutter.• Mounting artworks — float, float with cushion, window, and dry mounting.• Assembling artworks into frames including the use of spacers and decorative frame inserts.• Use of light machinery to screw fixings into wood.• Customer service — advising on framing, taking payments, answering telephone enquiries, emailing invoices.

  • National Museums Scotland
    • United Kingdom
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Collections Technician Assistant
      • Sep 2022 - Sep 2022

      • Three days of freelance work framing and packing 18 works of art on paper for the Bernat Klein exhibition. • Three days of freelance work framing and packing 18 works of art on paper for the Bernat Klein exhibition.

  • The University of Edinburgh
    • United Kingdom
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Special Collections Conservator (part-time)
      • Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

      • 7-week contract extended for 3 months. Second extension for another 2.5 months. Third extension for another month.• Mounted artworks (T-hinge and v-hinge/float mounted) and conserved an over-size artwork.• Digitisation, loan, and exhibition support – assessed collection items for exhibitions and loans, gave guidelines for their digitisation and display, and undertook any conservation treatments required on both books and single folio items.• Rehoused items into bespoke phase boxes.

    • Archives and Library Assistant
      • Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

      • Unframed artworks and rehoused them into single-crease folders.• Rehoused photographs into single-crease folders.• Supervised contractors from Harrow Green and Clockwork packing and moving a collection of bound volumes.• Stabilised bound volumes with loose boards or fragile spines with cotton tape, acid-free tissue, and/or tyvek.

  • Book and Archive Conservation Services Ltd.
    • United Kingdom
    • Libraries
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Paper Conservator
      • Mar 2020 - Aug 2021

      Paper and Archives:• Cleaned, repaired, and rehoused single folio items.• Unframed printed items.• Before, during, and after treatment photography.Books:• Cleaned various volumes.• Structural repairs using wheat starch paste and gelatine.• Before, during, and after treatment photography. Paper and Archives:• Cleaned, repaired, and rehoused single folio items.• Unframed printed items.• Before, during, and after treatment photography.Books:• Cleaned various volumes.• Structural repairs using wheat starch paste and gelatine.• Before, during, and after treatment photography.

  • National Galleries of Scotland
    • United Kingdom
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Freelance Paper Conservator
      • Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

      • Wrote condition and loan reports.• Technical analysis of artworks.• Updated the Mimsy XG database. • Wrote condition and loan reports.• Technical analysis of artworks.• Updated the Mimsy XG database.

  • THE SCOTTISH CONSERVATION STUDIO LLP
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Paper Conservator
      • May 2018 - Mar 2020

      • Tear repairs, removing pressure-sensitive tape, infilling losses.• Repairing tracing paper.• Washing – immersion, float, and capillary.• Using steam to remove adhesives.• Backing removal.• Retouching with watercolours and pencils.• Mounting parchment for display.• Unframing and reframing artworks.• Conserving photographs.• Writing treatment reports.• Taking before and after photographs. • Tear repairs, removing pressure-sensitive tape, infilling losses.• Repairing tracing paper.• Washing – immersion, float, and capillary.• Using steam to remove adhesives.• Backing removal.• Retouching with watercolours and pencils.• Mounting parchment for display.• Unframing and reframing artworks.• Conserving photographs.• Writing treatment reports.• Taking before and after photographs.

    • Paper Conservator
      • Mar 2020 - 2020

      • Writing condition and treatment reports.• Surveying collections.• Consulting on the suitability of items for digitisation.• Interventive treatments on collection items. • Writing condition and treatment reports.• Surveying collections.• Consulting on the suitability of items for digitisation.• Interventive treatments on collection items.

    • Project Collections Assistant
      • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

      • Surveyed 13,610 out of 24,000 volumes from the Semple Collection and prioritised their cleaning.• Stabilised the collection’s condition through cleaning and tying loose boards with cotton tape. • Surveyed 13,610 out of 24,000 volumes from the Semple Collection and prioritised their cleaning.• Stabilised the collection’s condition through cleaning and tying loose boards with cotton tape.

    • Project Collections Assistant
      • Mar 2019 - Apr 2019

      • Rehoused and relocated a collection of rare books and manuscripts for long-term, off-site storage.• Tracked the location of each object during the move.• Assisted with the assembly of approximately 1,300 bespoke phase and solander boxes. • Rehoused and relocated a collection of rare books and manuscripts for long-term, off-site storage.• Tracked the location of each object during the move.• Assisted with the assembly of approximately 1,300 bespoke phase and solander boxes.

    • Project Collections Assistant
      • Jan 2019 - Jan 2019

      • Assisted with a large scale move of artworks to a new, environmentally controlled collections store.• Surface cleaned artworks in preparation for their move into long-term storage. • Assisted with a large scale move of artworks to a new, environmentally controlled collections store.• Surface cleaned artworks in preparation for their move into long-term storage.

  • National Library of Scotland
    • United Kingdom
    • Libraries
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Conservation Internship
      • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

      • Developed a methodology for the removal of area bonded fibre (ABF) laminates from objects in the collection, sampling from deaccessioned newspapers, books, maps, and single-folio objects.• Undertook interventive experiments to remove the ABF, including the use of heat, water, solvents, and gels.• Academic research for the purpose of a scientific report, which was turned into a peer-reviewed journal article publiched by the ICON Journal. • Developed a methodology for the removal of area bonded fibre (ABF) laminates from objects in the collection, sampling from deaccessioned newspapers, books, maps, and single-folio objects.• Undertook interventive experiments to remove the ABF, including the use of heat, water, solvents, and gels.• Academic research for the purpose of a scientific report, which was turned into a peer-reviewed journal article publiched by the ICON Journal.

    • Paper Conservator
      • Apr 2018 - Apr 2018

      • Digitisation preparation of paper-based documents, letters, and telegrams for the Barings Archive.• Removed fastenings and undertook minimalistic conservation treatments on the collection for the purpose of stability during handling and digitisation. • Digitisation preparation of paper-based documents, letters, and telegrams for the Barings Archive.• Removed fastenings and undertook minimalistic conservation treatments on the collection for the purpose of stability during handling and digitisation.

    • Conservation Internship
      • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

      • Surface cleaned, surveyed, and rehoused a collection of books, maps, and pamphlets.• Made Melinex dust jackets for books. • Surface cleaned, surveyed, and rehoused a collection of books, maps, and pamphlets.• Made Melinex dust jackets for books.

  • University of Melbourne
    • Australia
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Conservation Internship
      • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

      • Surface cleaned and rehoused fragile orchestral manuscripts. • Surface cleaned and rehoused fragile orchestral manuscripts.

Education

  • Northumbria University
    MA Conservation of Fine Arts, Works of Art on Paper
    2016 - 2018
  • Deakin University
    Master of Cultural Heritage, Museology/Museum Studies
    2012 - 2013
  • Deakin University
    Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies, Cultural heritage
    2011 - 2012
  • University of Tasmania
    Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology and Philosophy
    2006 - 2010

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