Museum, Heritage & Educational Work
Museum, Heritage & Educational Work
My academic and professional background is in museum work, research and education, where I've post-graduate qualifications as both an artefact conservator/restorer and as a teacher. Before turning my arts and crafts into my full time business I worked for institutions like English Heritage, York Archaeological Trust and The National Fishing Heritage Centre where I've experience in various labs, studios, libraries/archives, stores, galleries and classrooms. Since then, in a freelance self employed capacity, I've supplied various sizes and types of miniature figure sculpts and assorted interpretive scale models/dioramas for clients like The Tower of London and The National Railway Museum. I've also hand crafted numerous full size replica historic artefacts and period costumes for academics and curators at places such as the National Maritime Museum, the British Museum and National Trust properties. Other heritage related work has ranged from writing educational resources, spanned the odd spot of consultancy work, copywriting and illustrating, manufacturing 'merchandising' for gift shops, to making period style 'props' for stage & screen: All for clients as diverse as university research projects, publishers of books and magazines through to producers of TV documentaries and major movies. As I myself, am also a recreational historic re-enactor and experimental archaeologist with a local not for profit educational group it's still common to find me pottering about varied museums either working directly with the public or conducting my own independent research.
No two client's requirements are ever the same, so whether you wish to chat about the feasibility of a nascent idea, or have a detailed brief you want a formal quote upon, feel free to get in touch. One thing I will mention based upon repeated experience is that employees of big museums often seem to underestimate how long it may take the varied departments of their own institutions to deal with internal meetings and paperwork to progress from a first informal commission enquiry to issuing a signed contract and releasing funds such that I may actually start work on a project. All this can make your deadline look much less generous than you may have thought, so it's never too soon to Contact me.
The four images shown below could never sum up the diversity of clients or projects I have been involved with but they do hint at what I could do for you, whilst a better idea can obtained from the testimonials section and the gallery section of this web site.
No two client's requirements are ever the same, so whether you wish to chat about the feasibility of a nascent idea, or have a detailed brief you want a formal quote upon, feel free to get in touch. One thing I will mention based upon repeated experience is that employees of big museums often seem to underestimate how long it may take the varied departments of their own institutions to deal with internal meetings and paperwork to progress from a first informal commission enquiry to issuing a signed contract and releasing funds such that I may actually start work on a project. All this can make your deadline look much less generous than you may have thought, so it's never too soon to Contact me.
The four images shown below could never sum up the diversity of clients or projects I have been involved with but they do hint at what I could do for you, whilst a better idea can obtained from the testimonials section and the gallery section of this web site.
Please click on the smaller thumbnail images to view a larger version.
 Viking faering |
 Peasant's revolt |
 Aged Viking ring pin |
 Landscape archaeology |