Talk: From the Bronte's to Banksy - The life of a Yorkshire Conservator by Richard Hawkes

Richard Hawkes is an Accredited Conservator-Restorer, with wide experience working for museums, institutions, art dealers and private individuals throughout the UK. Having initially trained in Newcastle, followed by posts at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and a private conservation studio in Cambridge, he established his own studio, Artworks Conservation, in Harrogate.
Richard has a long association with several university conservation and art history training courses where he regularly lectures on the history of artists’ materials. He runs professional development workshops at York Minster Library for conservators from throughout the UK and further afield.