Lux & Livre are Clare Goulbourn, Book and Paper conservator and Sarah Allen, Photographic Materials conservator, as well as a number of trusted associates we work with to bring you a wider range of services which complement our core specialisms.
Sarah and Clare began working together over 8 years ago, bringing together their complimentary skills and 25 years combined experience to work on a collection of photograph albums. Since then they have worked on a wide range of projects together and this year decided it was time to go into partnership together, forming Lux & Livre.
Sarah Allen graduated with an MA in the Conservation of Historic Objects from Lincoln University in 2006, where she received a Zibby Garnett Travelling Fellowship and undertook internships in Iceland and Athens. After graduating she worked for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, the National Trust and English Heritage, specialising in the conservation of photographic materials. This involved completing a 3-year training and development programme, including the ‘Masterclass’ at the Centre for Photographic Materials. Since 2010 she has run her own practice, working for a range of public sector and private clients including acting as the National Trust Adviser on Photographic Materials for 2 years.
Sarah was part of the team who received the ICON Collections Care Award for their work raising the profile of photographic conservation in South West England (see here for more details). She has published her research into daguerreotypes and glass deterioration; opaltypes and silver gelatine glass plate negatives in a number of peer-reviewed publications, and has presented at conferences across the world, most recently at the ICOM-CC PMWG Triennial in NYC in 2019.
Clare Goulbourn graduated from West Dean College with a Post-Graduate Diploma in 2012, during which time she received funding from NADFAS and the Edward James Foundation. Upon graduating she was the successful applicant for the Heritage Lottery Funded ICON internship in Book Conservation at PZ Conservation in Penzance for just under eighteen months.
She accepted a position at Temple Bookbinders Ltd, Oxford, in 2014 where she had the opportunity to fine tune her bookbinding skills as well as develop a paper conservation department for the business. She also spent eighteen months working part time for a paper conservator in private practice, increasing her knowledge and experience in this field. From 2014 she started her own practice – and her business has gently grown by word of mouth. In December 2019 she left her (now part time) position at Temple Bookbinders and went fully self-employed.
Our Associates
We also work with the following specialists:
Conservation Framers
Exhibition technicians
Film conservators
Photographers and digitisers