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Yuki Burt
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Yuki Burt is a trained conservator and decorative arts restorer who conserves objects and fans made from a wide range of organic materials, and is a member of the Institute of Conservation (ICON)
- She initially trained at the Lincoln College of Art and Design and then obtained a prestigous internship at the Fan Museum in London.
- Once completed she was retained by the Fan Museum as a Conservator – working on some of the museums most valuable Fans. In addition she has been on the Conservation register since 1990.
- Since qualifying in the 1980s she has worked on hundreds of fans from museum and private collections across Europe, the Far East and the UK and has developed a special affinity with them.
- She has given talks and lectures on conservation as well as teaching fan specific conservation to students.
Yuki’s experience as a general conservator ranges from small decorative art objects to architectural-scale projects such as cleaning, supporting and rehanging textile wall hangings or gilding architectural stonework. In recent years she has had several spells of work abroad.
But by far her greatest area of expertise is fan conservation. Here her training in a wide range of materials and her enjoyment of the challenge of working with objects which combine many of them come to the fore. She is just as much at home working with fan sticks made from mother-of-pearl, bone, horn, wood or ivory, and leaves made from textile, paper, mica or vellum as she is with grasses, barkcloth, leather or feathers and any embellishments such as metal threadwork, sequins or beading.
In a career that spans almost a quarter of a century, Yuki has accumulated a wealth of knowledge – not just about the materials from which fans are made, but also about the mechanics of fans and the way in which their various parts can react to each other.
Now she has put some of that knowledge into a 28-page guide to good handling, storage and display. Entitled Fan Care, it will be available for purchase shortly.