The IHBC is delighted to welcome Clara Arokiasamy, President of ICOMOS-UK, as the guest judge on the 2021 IHBC Gus Astley Student Award, with winners receiving certificates and cash prizes up to £500 plus a free place at the IHBC’s 2023 Swansea School (21-24 June).
…the fifteenth year we have run these prestigious conservation awards…
Clara Arokiasamy said: ‘I am honoured and delighted to judge the 2022 Gus Astley Student Award.’
‘Commitment to developing and maintaining good practice and standards in conservation is at the heart of our two organisations, IHBC and ICOMOS-UK.’
‘The impact of climate change, the need to decolonise the interpretation of our historic environment and the need to involve our communities in conservation are some of the key issues that we are faced with currently.’
… I commend the IHBC’s effort to promote new thinking and ideas among students…
‘The education sector through its students plays a vital role in identifying solutions to these challenges and I commend the IHBC’s effort to promote new thinking and ideas among students through its Gus Astley Student Award.’
‘I am very much looking forward to reading the submissions over the coming weeks and months.’
Chris Wood, Chair of the IHBC’s Education Committee said: ‘Clara’s agreement to serve as the Institute’s Guest Judge for the 2020 Awards is very good news indeed. Her leading role with ICOMOS-UK as well as her strong and long-standing professional connections to the sector will ensure a thorough and informed review of the submissions – so good luck to her, and to all those submitting’.
Bob Kindred, IHBC’s lead adviser on the Gus Astley Awards, said: ‘I am delighted that Clara will be our guest judge for the awards in the forthcoming year. The role of ICOMOS is a impressive one across the sector in the UK and internationally and I’m sure Clara will find selecting commended entries and a winner a rewarding task.’
‘This will be the fifteenth year we have run these prestigious conservation awards and we are very pleased yet again to have received submissions to an impressively high standard.
‘The winner and all the other successful shortlisted candidates will receive their prizes at the IHBC’s 2023 School in Swansea and I look forward to meeting them there.’
‘In conversation with past Award recipients, I know that offering the shortlisted student nominees a place at the Annual School is a great incentive to participate. It is also one of the best ways for us to help them in the formative stages of their careers and experience the wide range of work done by the Institute’s members.’
Clara Arokiasamy OBE:
Clara is the President of ICOMOS-UK and the Chair of its Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee which she founded in 2012. Her involvement, as a senior manager and non-executive member, in the planning and delivery of arts and heritage services in the UK spans local government, community sector, and Non-Government Departments, over a period of 30 years. She was Deputy Director Operations at the Heritage Lottery Fund, a member of the Culture Committee at the UK National Commission for UNESCO, Vice President of the International Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage at ICOMOS International and a member of the Strategic Review Committee at ICOM International. She also chaired the London Mayor’s Heritage and Diversity Task Force and the Open University’s research board on Cultural Rights and Kenya’s New Constitution. Clara has consulted on cultural heritage in Europe, Canada and America for academic, community and arts and heritage sectors.
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