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Vanessa Nicolson, Carla Danella, Anne Chisholm, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Suzanne Valadon and more... Press the image to flip through Autumn Winter 2025/6 This issue of Restoration Conversations  explores modern and contemporary art and film from women’s perspectives, with several thought-provoking shows, like ‘MARY MARY’ (quite contrary) at The Artist’s Garden and ‘Ketty La Rocca: you you’, the Estorick Collection’s retrospective on the Italian conceptual artist. In Florence,

Shubha Taparia and Cécile Davidovici at Museo Sant'Orsola, 'Beyond Bloomsbury, with Carrington and more... Press the image to flip through Spring 2025 A celebration of restoration and art production, our Spring 2025 issue delves into the Innocenti Hospital’s historic archives, in search of stories and ‘tokens’ belonging to its girl foundlings; then, we revel in the before-and-after glory of eighteenth-century painter Violante Siriès Cerroti’s newly restored Reading Madonna –

Vanessa Bell, Molly Peacock, Louise Bourgeouis at the Novecento and more... Press image to flip through Autumn 2024 As we move towards winter, this issue of Restoration Conversations brings a splash of garden colour, with stunning works by contemporary botanical painter Marieluise Bantel, in conversation with the British Museum’s impressive oeuvre of floral works by Mary Delaney, whose fascinating story flows from Molly Peacock’s pen in The Paper Garden . Federica Parretti’s

Florence Nightingale, Caroline Hershel, Angelica Kauffman, women in the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and more... Press the image to flip through Spring 2024 The Spring 2024 Issue of Restoration Conversations  welcomes a new column, ‘Personal Reflections: Writers and readers share connections’, set to become a regular feature of the magazine. It debuts in with Canada-based writer Carol Annett and how Florence Nightingale influenced her personal and family history. Restoration Co

Conservator Eugenia Di Rocco, Lavinia Fontana, Maria Luisa Raggi, Ethyl Smyth and more... Press the image to flip through Winter 2024 Today’s women, featured in the Winter 2024 issue of Restoration Conversations, have done their share of searching, and that may well be the reason they find themselves pictured between these pages. Violinist Ruth Palmer and scholar Claudia Tobin seek – through their research and performance – to bring female composers and poetic-minded ‘freedom

Alice Neel, Joan Mitchell, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Lee Miller and more... Press the image to flip through Spring 2023 'Friends and Strangers’, the title of Margie MacKinnon’s article on the London-based exhibitions of painters Alice Neel and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, could be used to describe the whole of  Restoration Conversations . Indeed, Issue 3, Spring 2023 comprises a series of ‘meetings’ with modern-day and historic women – both familiar and largely unknown. Many of

Artemisia Gentileschi is at Michelangelo's house and under restoration, female pioneers of Abstractionism and more... Press image to flip through Autumn/ Winter 2022 Michelangelo’s home is Artemisia’s Abode. This issue focuses on Florence’s Casa Buonarroti – the home of Michelangelo, who Artemisia Gentileschi honoured with her Allegory of Inclination , the painting now being restored, under the public’s watchful eyes. The project ‘Artemisia UpClose’ reveals how the painter or

Vivian Maier, Laura Knight, Iris Origo, Sofia Uslenghi, Wanda and Marion Wulz and more... Press the image to flip through Spring/Summer 2022 Contemporary Italian women photographers meet their historic counterparts at Florence’s Forte Belvedere and Villa Bardini Museum, during Fotografe! Women Photographers: Alinari Archives and Contemporary Perspectives , an exhibition showcasing one of the world’s most important photographic archives. This issue features interviews with eme