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Paintings Conservator (Scotland)
Contact: Ailsa.Murray@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Historic Scotland Conservation Centre
7 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB
Ailsa Murray has a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art (Drawing and Painting)
from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and an MA (with distinction) in
Conservation of Fine Art (Easel Painting) from the University of
Northumbria at Newcastle in 1998.
She worked with Madeleine Katkov, wall paintings conservator, with whom
she was introduced to the field of structural ceiling painting while
working on the conservation of the timber ceilings of the Bodleian
Library, Oxford.
In 1999 she returned to Scotland to undertake a joint Historic
Scotland/National Trust for Scotland internship in the conservation of
structural paintings. Currently she works as a full-time Paintings
Conservator at Historic Scotland’s Conservation Centre, Edinburgh. She
recently completed a two-year secondment from Historic Scotland on the
conservation of the Phoebe Anna Traquair murals in Edinburgh.
Papers:
Scottish Renaissance Timber Painted Ceilings
[Article, in Issue 10, June 2009]
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