Adele Wright

PhD candidate in Pacific History
I graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2009 with a BA in History of Art and proceeded to train as an Easel Paintings Conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge. After qualifying in 2013 I worked as a Paintings Conservator in various museums and private studios in Washington D.C. and London, before starting my job as a teacher and Paintings Conservator back at the Hamilton Kerr Institute. I began my PhD as a part-time student alongside my work at the HKI in October 2019.
After working on conservation projects involving the material culture of Oceania at the British Museum and National Maritime Museum, I became interested in the research potential of these objects from the perspective of technically examining the materials from which they were made. My PhD research focusses on the objects collected from Vanuatu in the collection of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge (mainly from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries).
Teacher in the Postgraduate Diploma in Easel Painting Conservation, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge.

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