Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Michael Varcoe-Cocks is the Head of Conservation at the National Gallery of Victoria where he has been employed as a painting conservator for twenty years. His work has principally focused on collection-based research and the accompanying treatment of works produced between 1850 and 1950. He has personally undertaken treatment campaigns on numerous icons of the NGV’s collection.

Michael is a regular contributor to the field of technical art history and has published widely on the materials and methods employed by artist of the impressionist movement. He was co-curator of the 2011-2012 NGV touring exhibition Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed.

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