Ph.D in book conservation

Theresa Zammit Lupi recently obtained her doctorate degree in the conservation of manuscripts from Camberwell College, Univer-sity of the Arts, London. This is the first doctorate in conservation awarded to a Maltese.

Her research involved the study on Malta’s most signi-ficant musical manuscript collection housed at St John’s Co-Cathedral Museum, Valletta. Her thesis was entitled: ‘The codicological study on the L’Isle Adam illuminated graduals: manufacture, condition and proposals for conservation treatment’.

Her work was supervised by worldwide authority Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad and co-supervised by the University of Malta’s Prof. Mario Buhagiar.

Dr Zammit Lupi holds a first degree in art history from the University of Malta. Between 1996 and 1999 she was awarded an Italian scholarship to follow a course in book and paper conservation in Italy at the Istituto per l’Arte e il Restauro, Palazzo Spinelli, Florence.

In 2002 she obtained her master’s degree in book conservation with distinction from Camberwell College, where she continued to read for a doctorate in the same subject.

For 10 years she worked with Heritage Malta in the Book and Paper Conservation Department as conservator and lecturer.

Since 2009 she has worked as a freelance conservator and consultant on book and paper artefacts and collections. She works internationally, mainly in the UK, Italy and Egypt, as well as in Malta.

Zammit Lupi is a member of the Institute of Conservation, UK, and a committee member of the Maltese Association of Professional Conservators-Restorers. She is the daughter of Arthur and Doretta Zammit Lupi of Sliema.