Pilgrim Trust Conservation Award 2002 winners announced!

The winners of the 2002 Pilgrim Trust Conservation Awards were announced at a ceremony at the British Library on 12 November 2002. Four Awards were made:

The £15,000 Award for Conservation 2002 was won by Ian Clark, conservator, and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, for the conservation of Holland 1, the Royal Navy’s first submarine, built in 1901.

The Student Conservator of the Year was named as Kathryn Hallett, for her final-year MA project on lighting levels for ethnographic collections. She received £5000, with £5000 shared between her training institutions, RCA/ V&A Conservation and the British Museum.

The first Anna Plowden Award for Research and Innovation was made to joint winners Dr Andrew Calver of the Museum of London and Dr Lorraine Gibson of the University of Strathclyde for their project to develop a technique for measuring the air-exchange rate of display cases, who received a cheque for £2000.

The first Nigel Williams Prize for Ceramics and Glass Conservation and Restoration was awarded to Kenneth Watt of West Dean College for his lifetime achievement in this field. He received a prize of £500 and will hold a trophy specially designed and made by Wedgwood as a replica of the Portland Vase, a British Museum treasure restored by Nigel Williams.

Ian Clark and colleagues		Kathryn Hallett		Dr Andrew Calver, Dr Lorraine Gibson and colleague		Kenneth Watt and colleagues

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