Olivia Stoddart
Conservator
After studying a 5 year MA in History of Art and Fine Art at Edinburgh University, I undertook my conservation training at the Courtauld Institute of Art graduating in 2019. During my studies I carried out internships at the National Trust and Victoria and Albert Museum. I have worked as a junior conservator at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (Maastrict, Netherlands) and also in notable private studios in the UK. Before joining SGS I was the Robert Gavron Conservation Fellow at the National Gallery, London.
Research interests include my post-graduate thesis focussing on a technical study of a ‘Hall of Fame’ group of Jacobean portraits from Knole House (National Trust). And more recently a study of Baldassare Peruzzi’s depiction of the Nativity from the Ulster Museum (NMNI) in Belfast.
Publications and talks
Stoddart Olivia and Alabone Gerry, Thomas Sackville's Hall of Fame: displaced, reinvented and preserved at Knole Notes Rec.76253–272, 2022. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2021.0044
Olivia Stoddart, Marika Spring and Eugenia Geddes da Filicaia, National Gallery, London, Anne Stewart, Ulster Museum, Belfast, National Museums
Collaboration in the conservation of The Nativity (c.1515) by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi. Paper presented at British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers (BAPCR) Conference ‘Hand in Hand: Collaboration in Art and Conservation’ June 2023 (publication to follow).