Alice Copley
Assistant conservator
Alice joined MAC as Assistant Conservator in November 2023. Alice graduated from The University of Manchester with a B.A. in Art History, focused on 20th century art, design, and architecture. Prior to her conservation training, she spent three years working at Waddington Custot, a modern and contemporary art gallery in London, learning about modern and contemporary art and the market as well as sparking her interest in the materiality of paintings. In 2018, she received the Chemistry for Conservators certificate from the International Academic Projects (IAP) to further her understanding of conservation science. She went on to study painting conservation at The Courtauld Institute of Art and was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings in 2022. Throughout her training and since graduating, Alice has gained a wide range of practical experience in private studios in the U.K such as Hamish Dewar Ltd, Plowden & Smith Ltd, Ruth Bubb, and Julia Korner Fine Art Specialist. Prior to joining MAC, Alice spent a year as a Paintings Fellow at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), in The Netherlands, expanding her arsenal of conservation techniques as well as contributing to research in the field.