Associate Professor Institute of Conservation

Joshua Hill

I work to improve the care and appreciation of wall paintings.

Since wall paintings are fundamentally connected to the structures on which they are painted, this means investigating problems from the micro scale to the building scale.

I combine site projects with fundamental laboratory studies to address the conservation of wall paintings in a trans-technological context.
jhi@kglakademi.dk
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Joshua Hill standing in front of a red wooden pillar at Matisi in China.

Conservation of wall paintings

  • Environmentally-linked mechanisms of deterioration: aligning conservation and sustainability in historic buildings
  • Integrated approaches to conservation of wall paintings in Denmark
  • Materials and making in global wall painting technologies

  • Application and development of diffraction techniques in cultural heritage

     

Conservation is not about transformative visual change; we can best care for our painted heritage by addressing the causes and mechanisms of deterioration, not the symptoms.

  • Marouflage wall painting in Bhutan. In this paper we investigate how wall paintings in Bhutan changed from being painted on earthen plaster to today being painted on textiles fixed to the wall. We show this transition involved huge diversity in the ways that textiles were used and in what painting was done on-site or off-site.

     

  • St Martin's church Valjala, Estonia. Collaborative project on the technology and conservation of 13th-century wall paintings. Investigations into the causes and mechanisms of deterioration with a focus the environmental activation of deteriortion caused by non-original coatings, salt crystallisation, and biodeterioration.
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