Antique & Art Restoration

There are no college or university courses in Australia, that teach you my kind of antique & art restoration. Restoration is not rocket science, it is all lateral thinking and pure common sense, knowing what raw materials are available in the marketplace, and knowing how to use them wisely. Anyone can glue two broken pieces together, the most difficult part is the cosmetics, where, if applied correctly, you cannot, or can barely see the repair.

In most cases, (except in structural adhesion, where strength, and in the case of larger pieces, safety is of importance) cosmetic restoration is reversible. This allows for the easy removal, and improvement of the surface when new and superior materials are introduced into the market place decades in the future. Sources have told me that museums have problems trying to rectify restoration work that was carried out more than a hundred years ago, at that time, the restorers did not know that the glues they used, would break down, change colour, or stain the surface of an object.