Bianca Madden ACR
Projects
About Me
I have been working as a freelance conservator since 1998, on conservation projects for wall painting, sculpture and polychrome and gilded decorative surfaces.
My studio and practice are based in Oxford but I also work on conservation projects across the UK, in churches and historic buildings, as well as internationally. I have worked for: the British Museum; in the paintings department of the Benaki Museum in Athens; at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens’ Agora conservation laboratory, and am a contract conservator with the V and A. I have practiced in: Germany; France; Belgium; Greece and Turkey, on private projects and for exhibitions.
I have a long-term involvement in the site based conservation of tomb painting and built heritage in Egypt: running wall painting conservation projects for the American Research Center in Egypt at the tombs of Menna, Neferrenpet, the Red Monastery and Khonsu Temple, Karnak; working on the Tombs of Sennefer and Amenemope for the Université libre de Bruxelles’ Archaeological Mission to the Theban Necropolis; for the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale at the Deir el Medina; for the University of Leiden; for Oxford University/Ashmolean Museum’s epigraphic mission to Elkab; and for Yale University at the White Monastery. I was a part of the ICOM CIPEG (International Committee for Egyptology) Expert Group on the Tutankhamun Shrine Project, and was the British Museum's Project Conservator at the Egyptian Museum Cairo as a part of the EU project ‘Transforming the Egyptian Museum Cairo’ on the conservation of the wall painting from Tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis, the oldest known Egyptian tomb painting.
More information and details of projects and work history and updates on most recent projects and publications can be found on my website www.biancamadden.com.
Training
University College London Msc Sustainable Heritage, covering conservation issues, methodologies, policies and practice, encompassing sites, built heritage, and collections. Passed with distinction
City and Guilds of London Art School Diploma (BA equivalent) in the Conservation of Stone, Wood, Plaster and Polychrome Surfaces
Leonardo da Vinci Bursary, Urbino, Italy Conservation of painted surfaces. Training at Vittorini Restauri, Urbino, Italy through the EU education and training programme, working on practical conservation work of objects in the studio including panel painting, polychromed sculpture, and wall paintings in the church of Santa Chiara, Urbino.
