Maureen Cross

Maureen was appointed in 2005 as a full-time lecturer in the Conservation & Technology Department. She has a BA Hons. in Art History from Hunter College: City University of New York. She has worked at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum-Smithsonian Institution. She then moved to the UK to study easel paintings conservation at the University of Northumbria, completing her MA with Distinction in 1998. She has since worked as a professional conservator at Tate, the Manchester Galleries, and the National Museums of Liverpool.

• Materials and techniques of modern and contemporary artists.
• Applied conservation research for treatment solutions

Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings

• History of Artists Materials and Techniques
• History and Practice of Written and Photographic Documentation
• Practical Conservation and Restoration of Easel Paintings
• Practical Paintings Techniques for Replicas
• Research Seminar – Considering Contemporary and Modern Art
• Physical History of Works of Art