YORK CONSORTIUM FOR CONSERVATION AND CRAFTSMANSHIP

Winners of Foundation Bursaries 2001 - 2010


2010 (£11,000 awarded)

David Everingham - picture restorer - Historic Houses Association award (for taking on new apprentice)

Nigel Barnett - blacksmith (for taking on new apprentice)

Don Barker - blacksmith - the combined Freemasons and Merchant Taylors Award (for taking on new apprentice)

Thomas Beeby - carpenter (to assist with travel costs associated with his SPAB William Morris Fellowship

Darren McLean (for a West Dean course on the conservation of historic floors

Jodie Dodgson - of the York Glaziers Trust (for a "Chemistry for Conservators" course)

Carol Peacock - archivist (to meet travel costs for an internship at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum)

 

2009 (£12,000 awarded)

Burrows Davies Ltd – the Freemasons’ Award (for taking on new apprentice)

Keith Barley – the Merchant Taylors Award (for taking on new apprentice)

Chris Topp – the HHA Award (for taking on new apprentice)

Catherine Dand - Trainee Archivist at the Borthwick, (for the Society of Archivists course)

Nicola Dowsett - (towards the MA course in stained glass at the University)

Nick Teed  - of the York Glaziers Trust (for a “Chemistry for Conservators” course)

Sophie Adamson - of the Newport Ship Project (for an internship at the YAT)

 

2008 (£8,000 awarded)

Scottish Lime Centre Trust – National Lime Centre (for taking on new apprentice)

Ryedale Plasterers Ltd – Plasterers (to train two high potential craftsmen)

David Davies – Carpenter and SPAB William Morris Fellow (meet living costs while undertaking fellowship)

Ben Levings – Trainee Carver and Stonemason (to finance career change City and Guilds stonemasonry course)

Emma Schmuecker – Conservator of Asian Armour (to attend specialist conference in India)

Suzanne Kitto – Metalwork Conservator (to attend a course in metalwork conservation at West Dean)

Sayaka Fakuda – Book Conservator (towards cost of MA on lacquered covers of Japanese souvenir albums)

 

2007 (£8,000 awarded)

Yorkshire Hurdles – Woodland Management and Coppicing (contribution to costs of new apprentice)

Houghton’s of York – Joiners and Carpenters (contribution to costs of new apprentice)

Matthias Garn – Stonemason (contribution to costs of new apprentice and to training of existing employee in letter-cutting)

York Glaziers Trust – Stained Glass Conservators (contribution to travel costs for information exchange with Cologne Cathedral)

Alaina Schmisseur – Archaeological Conservator (study of excavated leather shoes and their wearers)

Yorkshire Air Museum – Aircraft Conservation (preparation of complete training package for the application of fabric to historic airframes)

 

2006 (£4,000 awarded)

Don Barker – Blacksmith (contribution to costs of taking on new indentured apprentice)

Richard Hickton – Stonemason (contribution to costs of 2-year stone carving course)

Tracy Holmes – Stained Glass Conservator (contribution to costs of 2-year MA course in Conservation studies at York University)

Ruth Prosser – Paper Conservator (travel costs for study in St Petersburg and Tallin of conservation of Chinese pith paper illustrations)

 

2005 (£3,925 awarded)

Michael Grady - Decorative Plasterer (financial support for William Morris Fellowship with SPAB).

Rachel Sabino-Gunaratna - conservator/restorer of ceramics and glass (internship at the Corning Museum of Glass in the USA).

Rosamund Weatherall - Textile Designer  (MA in textile conservation at Southampton University).

Six York Minster Stone Masons  (travel costs for international Stone Festival in Freiburg, Germany)

Jenny Pearson - Book and Paper Conservator (fees for Society of Bookbinders Training Conference at Bath University)

 

2004 (£3,700 awarded)

Steve Allen – Wet wood Conservator (international seminar in Copenhagen)

Tim Covington – Stonemason (course in letter-cutting)

Fiona Jones – Decorative Plasterer (financial support for William Morris Fellowship from SPAB)

Julia Meredith – Wood Carver (setting up own business)

Katerina Powell – Conservator of Architectural Drawings (specialist course in Hamburg)

Helen Whittaker – Stained Glass Artist (figurative sculpture course)

 

2003 (£4,500 awarded)

Matthias Garn – Stonemason (master stonemason course in Germany)

Lee Godfrey – Stone Carver (MA course in conservation)

Tom Heys and Andrew Brind – Blacksmiths (Master’s course in leafwork)

David Medley – Stonemason (restoration carving course)

Stephanie Erpenbeck – Student Conservator  (open water diving course for marine archaeology)

 

2002 (£4,800 awarded)

Yvonne Adamson – Conservator of Scagliola (studies in Eastern Europe)

Gary Bishop – Trainee Stained Glass Artist (medieval glass-painting techniques)

Susie Clark – Paper and Photographic Conservator (courses on digitisation of photographic records)

Lindsay Hogarth – Apprentice Stone Carver (international apprentice competition at Dresden’s Frauenkirche)

Stephen Pickering – Builder and Stonemason  (advanced craft training and use of lime mortar)

 

2001 (£2,000 awarded)

Iain Broadbent – Apprentice Wood Carver (for the purchase of tools)

Michael Goulding – Stone Mason (specialist tools for international competition in Korea)

Erica Paterson – Archaeological Conservator (specialist course)

Leanne Walker – Stained Glass Conservator (work experience in other expert studios)

 

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