Sherry Doyal
Head of Organic Artefacts Conservation
Section
Leads the team of conservators of
organic artefacts conservation for display, loan, study and
storage
Department: Conservation and Scientific
Research
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8086
Email: conservation @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Sherry joined the section in 2006 and was
previously employed at the Horniman Museum in London (ethnography
designated collection); the National Trust Devon and Cornwall and
private practice; Exeter City Museums (ethnography designated
collection); the Victoria and Albert Museum; the National Trust
Southern; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Crown Suppliers
Textile Conservation Studio; the Textile Conservation Centre
Hampton Court Palace and York Archaeological Trust.
Her current areas of special interest include
plant material collections and basketry.
Current British Museum projects
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Previous British Museum projects
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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Millennium Fellow: Exeter City
Museums/Maidstone Museum sharing museum skills - bark cloth
conservation.
Member of the Institute of Conservation (ICON)
Member of the Natural Sciences Collections Association
(NatSCA)
Member of the Museum Ethnographers’ Group (MEG)
Member of the Basketmakers Association (BA)
Publications
S. Doyal, 'The treatment of the Wellington Museum Apsley House
hall porter’s chair: a case study of the treatment of coated
fabric', The Conservator, 20 (1996), pp.77-86
S. Doyal, M. Sandiford, 'Architectural linings
and backings', in Lining and Backing: the support of
paintings, paper and textiles, (UKIC, 1995), pp.60-66
S. Doyal, G. Shearer,'Use of FT-IR in the
conservation of twentieth century objects', in Materials
Issues in Art and Archaeology II (San Francisco, 1990),
pp.813-823
S. Doyal, 'The analysis and documentation of
upholstered objects', in Upholstery Conservation,
(Colonial Williamsberg, 1990) pp.42-54
S. Doyal, V. Davies, 'Upholstered
mattress construction and conservation', in Conservation of
Furnishing Textiles, (Glasgow, 1990), pp.58-68