Quick conservation: being disaster prepared. Image: Shutterstock.
The CEO of International Conservation Services (ICS) and president of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Julian Bickersteth, spoke at the recent Regional Public Galleries Conference in Bega – a location not far from the recent epic Currowan fire on the far south coast of NSW, described as a ‘500,000-hectare inferno’.
Bickersteth says that the Lismore floods resulted in ‘the most expensive insurance claim in Australia’s climate-related defence, currently at $4.9 billion’.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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