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Dr Lucy Wrapson

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Assistant to the Director/Senior Painting Conservator

Lucy Wrapson graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in History of Art in 2000 before spending a year on scholarship at Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Italy. She then attended the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving an MA in Early Sienese Painting in 2002 and a Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings in 2005. Since 2005, she has been based at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, firstly as a Conservation Intern and since 2007 as a Research Associate and Painting Conservator, becoming an ICON Accredited Conservator in 2012 and Assistant to the Director in 2016. Lucy gained her PhD in History of Art in 2014, from the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled 'Patterns of production: a technical art historical study of East Anglia’s late medieval screens'.

Email: ljw31@cam.ac.uk

  • L Wrapson, V Sutcliffe, S Woodcock and S Bucklow (eds), Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders, 2019, Archetype, London.
  • L  Wrapson, A Wright, C Braybrook and S Bucklow (eds), Bulletin of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, 7, 2018
  • M Straub and L Wrapson, The Battel Hall Retable, history, technique and conservation, Bulletin of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, 7, 2018
  • L Wrapson (ed.), The Picture Restorer, Issue 52, Spring 2018
  • L Wrapson (ed.), The Picture Restorer, Issue 50, Spring 2017
  • L Wrapson and C Braybrook (eds), Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, 6, 2016
  • L Wrapson, Towards new methodological approaches for examining rood screens, in S Bucklow, R Marks and L Wrapson, The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe: Making, Meaning, Preserving, Woodbridge, 2016
  • L Wrapson, Prints and pastiglia: the surviving paintings of a late-medieval East Anglian workshop, in A Wallert et al. (eds), Painting Techniques, History Materials and Studio Practice. A Conference held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 18, 19, and 20 September 2013, Amsterdam, 2016
  • A Samson, L Wrapson, C Cartwright, et al., Artists before Columbus: A multi-method characterization of the materials and practices of Caribbean cave art, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 88, December 2017: 24-36
  • R Vieten, A Winter, A Samson, J Cooper, L Wrapson, P Kambensis, M Lace and M A Nieves, Quantifying the impact of human visitation in two cave chambers on Mona Island (Puerto Rico): implications for archaeological site conservation, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, 2016: 79-85
  • R Vieten, A Winter, A Samson, J Cooper, L Wrapson, P Kambensis, M Lace and M A Nieves, Quantifying the impact of human visitation in two cave chambers on Mona Island (Puerto Rico): implications for archaeological site conservation, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, 2016: 79-85
  • L Wrapson and E Sinclair, The Polychromy of Devon screens: preliminary analytical results, S Bucklow, R Marks and L Wrapson, The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe: Making, Meaning, Preserving, Woodbridge, 2016
  • J Cooper, A Samson, J Rivera, P Kambensis, M Lace, T Higham, C Cartwright, R Stacey, R Vieten, D Torres, V Serrano, D Delgado and L Wrapson, Exceptional Cavescapes of Mona Island: Interpreting diachronic time capsules, 26th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, 19-25th July, 2015
  • L Wrapson, Radiance or Reflection:  Techniques for Chrysography in thirteenth-century panel painting, in J Folda, Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting. The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography, Cambridge, 2015: 247-279
  • L Wrapson, A Medieval Context for the Artistic Production of Painted Surfaces in England: Evidence from East Anglia (c.1400–50), in T Cooper, A Burnstock, M Howard and E Town, Painting in Britain 1500–1630, Production, Influences and Patronage, London, 2015: 166-175
  • L Wrapson, Ranworth and its Associated Paintings: A Norwich Workshop, in T Heslop and H Lunnon (eds), Norwich. Medieval and Early Modern Art, Architecture and Archaeology, The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 38, Leeds, 2015: 216-237
  • J Rose and L Wrapson (eds), Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, 5, 2014
  • S Cotton, H Lunnon and L Wrapson, Medieval rood screens in Suffolk: their construction and painting dates, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology and History, 43, Part 2, 2014: 219-234
  • A Samson, J Cooper, M Nieves, L Wrapson, D Redhouse, R Vieten et al., Indigenous Cave Use, Isla de Mona, Proceedings of the 25th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Puerto Rico, 2013: 414-444
  • L Wrapson, East Anglian medieval church screens. A brief guide to their physical history, Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, 4, 2013: 33-47
  • L Wrapson, S Bucklow, J Rose (eds), Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, 4, 2013
  • L Wrapson, J Rose, R Miller and S Bucklow (eds), In Artists’ Footsteps: the Reconstruction of Pigments and Paintings, London, 2013
  • L Wrapson, East Anglian Rood-screens: the Practicalities of Production, Patrons and Professionals in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the 2010 Harlaxton Symposium, eds P Binski and E A New, Donington, 2012: 386-40
  • C Tracy, H Harrison with a note on the polychromy by L Wrapson, Thomas Spring’s Chantry and Parclose at Lavenham, Suffolk, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 164, 2011: 221-59
  • M L Sauerberg, R Marchant and L Wrapson, The Tester over the Tomb of Edward, the Black Prince: the Splendour of Late-Medieval Polychromy in England, Monumental Industry: The Production of Tomb Monuments in England and Wales in the Long Fourteenth Century, ed. S Badham and S Oosterwijk, Shaun Tyas, Donington 2011: 161-186
  • C Rozeik, J Dawson, and L Wrapson, Are Attic Vases 'Archaeological'?, Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean: Contributions to the 2010 IIC Congress,London, 2010: 24-29
  • L Wrapson and M L Sauerberg, Late medieval polychrome tomb testers in Canterbury Cathedral and elsewhere, Postprints to conference, held at Hampton Court Palace, October 2007 and March 2008, ICON 2010: pp. 69-93
  • L Wrapson, C Blackett-Ord and F Pollak, Print Quarterly: an Index 1994-2003, London 2009
  • L Wrapson (ed.), News in Conservation, 9-16, IIC, London 2008-10
  • L Wrapson, The materials and techniques of the c. 1307 Westminster Abbey Sedilia, Medieval Painting in Northern Europe - Technique, Analysis and Art History, Studies in Commemoration of the 70th birthday of Unn Plahter, ed. J Nadolny with T Froysaker, K Kollandsrud and M L Sauerberg, Archetype Publications, London 2006
  • L Wrapson, The technical study and conservation treatment of four 2nd century AD Romano-Egyptian portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Preprints of ICOM-CC Icon and Portrait International Conference, Maryut 2006

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