Naval figureheads, ancient art and even Spitting Image puppets are all being brought back to life by a team of crack conservators
There is a lot of talk about “loss” in the studio of Hans Thompson and Maxwell Malden. As art conservators, this is traditionally what they deal in: missing pieces that range in size, shape and form. Today, it’s a small chip of plastic from a conceptual sculpture belonging to a contemporary art gallery. Tomorrow, it’s the gilded oak finger of a 17th-century sculpture of St Catherine. Each “loss” comes with a fresh set of practical and ethical challenges.
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