Softer: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace

by | Oct 20, 2017 | Uncategorized

Softer: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace is the visually exciting and thought-provoking collaboration between American artist Jenny Holzer and the Blenheim Art Foundation. Set within the sumptuous interiors of Blenheim Palace, the eighteenth Century seat of the Dukes...

The Garden Museum Reviewed

by | Oct 13, 2017 | Uncategorized

Postgraduate researcher Caroline Ikin reviews London’s The Garden Museum in this month’s ‘Museums Journal’. To find out more about our conservation, mount making and installation work on this exhibition do take a look at our Garden Museum case...
Hailes Abbey Museum: BBC Radio Interview

Hailes Abbey Museum: BBC Radio Interview

by | Jul 18, 2017 | Uncategorized

Hailes Abbey near Winchcombe has now reopened, following a spectacular refurbishment programme that has utterly transformed the museum.During the redevelopment of the museum, Kevin Smith – Plowden & Smith’s Managing Director and Head of Exhibitions...

Watch ‘The Treasures of Hailes Abbey’

by | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized

In Spring / Summer 2017, Plowden & Smith’s exhibitions department spent several weeks transforming the museum at Hailes Abbey into a stylish, state-of-the-art learning and interpretation facility. Our bespoke object display mounts and carefully positioned...

Patinating Brass: a step-by-step guide

by | Jul 3, 2017 | Uncategorized

Metal conservator Hal Jacob shows us a simple yet very effective way to patinate the surface of smaller pieces of brass to produce an ‘aged’ effect. Stage One   Begin by planing a piece of walnut to make wood shavings.     The wood shavings are placed in a lidded...
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