SCULPTURE SERVICES

PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION & AFTERCARE FOR PROFESSIONAL SCULPTORS 

A sculpture conservator should be part of your professional team. Caring about sculpture is our big focus at, Antique Bronze, which makes us the perfect people to ensure that you, and your clients, have no headaches after one of your works are sold and installed. 

It is the nature of bronze to change. The chemistry that enables a foundry to patinate a sculpture so beautifully also means that it is inherently unstable.  

Our aim is maintain your artistic intent, but not to keep your statue in stasis

We couldn’t even if we wished to! In an ideal world, there is an evolution of the statue’s patina and formation of a naturally occurring patina which is a thing of wonder and beauty. The reality can be somewhat different: the way the patina evolves can be unpredictable and, there is just as much chance of it becoming ugly and disfigured as beautiful.  It’s a conservator’s role to intervene before that point and make that a balance is upheld.  

When clients have spent a good deal of money on a sculpture, they are often much less sanguine about it changing than you may be. Our qualifications and experience are specifically in conservation so we are able to reassure and discuss all aspects of a sculpture’s long-term care with them and then execute the plan for them. This is immensely valuable to owners and sculptors alike: owners get the reassurance they need and your precious time can be spent creating the next sculpture rather than worrying over the last one. 

Our focus is on achieving long-term stability of your sculpture and all our treatments are carried out in situ. We become your sculpture’s guardian helping to protect it from many of the things which we know can damage its delicate patinated surface. 

Planning and executing the sculpture’s maintenance and ensuring that the routine and treatment is exactly right for its bespoke environment, is what we do best. 

We discuss the value a sculpture conservator can add to your team in one of our podcast episodes, WHAT IS SCULPTURE CONSERVATION? if you’d like to find out more. Just listen along!