Collecting by gift, deposit, purchase and commission continued. At Jersey Archive 139 new collections, totalling over 156,000 items, were deposited. Under the terms of the Public Records Law, Public Records Officers were established in a number of States departments and archival deposits were received by the Trust from 21 departments and public bodies.
On behalf of the States the Trust commissioned Equanimity, a holographic portrait of HM The Queen. The portrait was unveiled by Prince Charles at Jersey Museum in June and copies were displayed at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace and in the Jewel House at the Tower of London. In December a new bust of René Liron by Ian Rank-Broadley was unveiled at Jersey Museum as part of our series of annual portrait commissions.
We lent recent purchases of photographs by Claude Cahun to exhibitions at Manchester City Art Galleries, Kulturhuset Stockholm and the Whitechapel Gallery. In the area of conservation, the first part of the programme of re-packing the La Cotte de St Brelade collection, sponsored by the Marc Fitch Fund, was completed and improvements were made to the textile and art stores.
Our extremely active group of conservation volunteers provided more than 1,700 hours of help at the laboratory and workshop located at the Sir Francis Cook Gallery. Volunteers at the Maritime Museum worked with the Trust’s boat-builder to complete a replica of Circassian, an 1870s La Rocque fishing boat.
Ruth Rolls at work restring a painting of Sir
Anthony Paulet
Photo courtesy of Jersey Evening
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