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Lisa Shekede 12 New Street
Ross-on-Wye
Herefordshire
HR9 7DA, UK
Landline: +44 (0) 1989565551
UK Mobile: +44 (0) 7787 573852
Email: lshekede@rickerby-shekede.com
Website: www.rickerby-shekede.com
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1995-1997
MA
Thesis: English domestic wall paintings on
earthen supports: materials and deterioration
Courtauld Institute of Art, Conservation of Wall
Painting Department, University of London
London, UK
1994
Earthen architecture course
The preservation of the earthen architectural
heritage
CRATerre-ENSAG, Ecole d’Architecture de Grenoble,
60 Avenue de Constantine, Grenoble, France
1991-1994
Postgraduate Diploma
Conservation of Wall Paintings
Courtauld Institute of Art, Conservation of Wall
Painting Department, University of London
London, UK
1990
Fulbright Scholarship
Paper conservation internship
John M. Olin Library, Cornell University,
New York, USA
1979-1981
BA Hons. 2.1, History of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art, Conservation of Wall
Painting Department, University of London
London, UK
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2005 – 2007
Member of the Board of Studies for the Wall Painting
Conservation MA
Courtauld Institute of Art Conservation of Wall
Painting Department, University of London, UK
1994 – (ongoing)
Sitework supervision, seminars, practical sessions for
the Wall Painting Conservation Post-Graduate Diploma
and Master’s Degree courses
Courtauld Institute of Art Conservation of Wall
Painting Department, University of London, UK
2011 – Fellow
1991 – 2011 Member
International Institute for Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)
2007 –
Expert member
International Scientific Committee on Earthen
Architectural Heritage (ISCEAH)

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SELECTED CONSERVATION WORK
February 2017
Gheralta, Tigray, Ethiopia
Expert consultant on EU PROHEDEV programme in Gheralta, Tigray, Ethiopia for
preparation of draft nomination file for “The Sacred Landscape of Gheralta’
Project partners: Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage; Bureau
for Culture and Tourism in the National State of Tigray; Centre for Responsible Travel
July 2016
St Paul’s Cathedral,
London, England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Treatment of water and salts damage to a section of the Thornhill painting in the dome
Jan 2016
Croft Castle, Herefordshire,
England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Conservation of painted C18th wainscoting in the ‘Blue Room’ for the National Trust
June 2015, June 2016
Cothay Manor, Somerset,
England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Survey of wall painting condition and technology followed by conservation of important
C15th early domestic wall paintings in the Great Hall and the ‘Gold Room’.
January – March 2015
Church of St. Michael the
Archangel, Rushall, West
Midlands, England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Survey of wall painting condition and technology followed by cleaning and conservation
of a rare wall painting scheme by important symbolist artist, E. Reginald Frampton.
November 2014 –
(ongoing)
Ymrehanna Krestos,
Lalibela, Ethiopia
Consultant conservator
Technical and condition survey followed by plaster stabilisation
Project partners: Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage
(Ethiopia); World Monuments Fund; Ethiopian Heritage Fund
Sept 2014 – (ongoing)
Tigray, Ethiopia
Consultant conservator
Conservation at the churches of Abuna Daniel Qorqor, Maryam Bahera, AbunaTekla
Haymanot Ara Ero, and Petros Tefetsame Samaet
Project partners: Bureau for Culture and Tourism in the National State of
Tigray;Ethiopian Heritage Fund.
June – August 2014
Doncaster Minster, South
Yorkshire, England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Survey of wall painting condition and technology followed by cleaning and conservation
of an ambitious polychromed reredos, incorporating gilded decoration and marouflage
painting.
Sept 2013
Tigray, Ethiopia
Technical and conservation consultant
Survey of wall painting condition and technology at various sites in Tigray.
Project partners: Bureau for Culture and Tourism in the National State of Tigray;
Ethiopian Heritage Fund, Courtauld Institute of Art
Sept 2012 – 2015
Tamzhing Monastery,
Bumthang, Bhutan
Project and fieldwork co-supervisor
Conservation of the earliest surviving scheme of wall paintings in Bhutan; supervision
of Courtauld Institute master’s degree students.
Project partners: Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Bhutan; Courtauld Institute of
Art.
June – July 2012
Church of St Saeren,
Llanynys, Denbeighshire,
Wales, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Technical investigation, condition assessment and conservation of an important
Medieval St Christopher painting.

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March 2012
Rochester Cathedral, Kent,
England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Investigation and documentation of medieval paintings and rare early plasterwork in
the crypt of Rochester cathedral.
October 2011;
July – August 2013
Church of the Dormition,
Vardzia, Georgia
Technical and conservation consultant; Project and fieldwork co-supervisor
Survey of wall painting condition and technology followed by treatment testing of
important C12th Georgian wall paintings; supervision of Courtauld Institute master’s
degree students.
Project partners: Faculty of Restoration and Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts;
National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation, Georgia; Courtauld Institute of Art
August 2011
St Martin’s Church,
Blackheath, Guildford,
Surrey, England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Investigation and conservation of a rare potassium silicate mural painting scheme.
Aug 2008; Aug-Sept
2009; Nov 2010
Bhutan
Technical and conservation consultant
Survey of wall painting condition and technology at various sites across Bhutan.
Project partners: Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Bhutan; Courtauld Institute of
Art.
January 2008
Church of St Denys,
Stanford Dingley,
Bedfordshire, England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Conservation and rehabilitation of a neglected early-C13th wall painting scheme.
July 2007 –
August 2010
Biclinium 849, Beidha,
Petra, Jordan
Technical and conservation consultant
Survey of wall painting condition and technology followed by conservation of a rare
Nabataean wall painting.
Project partners: Petra National Trust; Department of Antiquities of Jordan; Courtauld
Institute of Art
April 2007 – June 2012
Monastery of Agios Ioannis
Lampadistis,
Kalopanagiotis, Cyprus
Project and fieldwork co-supervisor
Conservation of Byzantine wall painting schemes dating from C14th – C16th;
supervision of Courtauld Institute master’s degree students.
Project partners: Cyprus Department of Antiquities; Bishopric of Morphou; Courtauld
Institute of Art
January 2007;
January 2010
Royal Hospital, Chelsea,
London, England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Stabilisation, documentation and monitoring of the important ‘Resurrection’ painting by
Sebastiano Ricci in the semi-dome of the Chapel.
September 2005 –
(ongoing)
Mogao grotto site,
Dunhuang, Gansu
Province, China
Instructor
Academic instruction on a wall painting conservation module for master’s degree
students from various Chinese academic institutions.
Project partners: Dunhuang Academy; Courtauld Institute of Art.
February – November
2006
Eton College, Berkshire,
England, UK
Private conservation project, Rickerby & Shekede
Survey of wall painting condition and technology followed by conservation of important
early C16th wall painting depicting headmaster and boys.
January 2005
Tomb of Nefertari,
Luxor, Egypt
Conservation consultant
Post-treatment condition assessment and minor conservation work.
Project partners: Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities; Getty Conservation Institute

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May 2004 – March 2016
Church of Our Lady of
Victory, Valletta, Malta
Technical and conservation consultant; Project and fieldwork co-supervisor
Conservation of an C18th vault scheme in oil by the Maltese artist Alessio Erardi;
Technical analysis prior to and during conservation; supervision of Courtauld Institute
master’s degree students.
Project partners: Valletta Rehabilitation Project (2004-2008); Din L’Art Helwa (2011-
2016); Courtauld Institute of Art
June 2001– 2003
Church of Agios
Sozomenos, Galata,
Cyprus
Technical and conservation consultant; Project and fieldwork co-supervisor
Survey of wall painting condition and technology followed by conservation of an
important cycle of late-Byzantine fresco paintings; supervision of Courtauld Institute
master’s degree students.
Project partners: Cyprus Department of Antiquities; Bishopric of Morphou; Courtauld
Institute of Art
September 2000– 2005
Cave 85, Mogao grotto
site, Dunhuang, Gansu
Province, China
Conservation consultant
Development and implementation of appropriate treatments for late-Tang dynasty
grotto paintings executed on severely delaminating and halite-enriched earthen plaster.
Project partners: Chinese State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH); Dunhuang
Academy; Getty Conservation Institute
January 1999-2004
Grandmaster’s Chapel,
Grandmaster’s Palace,
Valletta, Malta
Project and fieldwork co-supervisor
Conservation of the St. John the Baptist fresco cycle by the Florentine late Mannerist
artist Filippo Paladini; supervision of Courtauld Institute post-graduate students.
Project partners: Valletta Rehabilitation Project; Courtauld Institute of Art; Getty
Conservation Institute
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2016 ‘Wall paintings of Tigray, Ethiopia: approaches to preserving a fragile heritage’, B. Priday, S.
Rickerby & L. Shekede, in The Anglo-Ethiopian Society News File, Spring, 2016, 10-17.
2015 ‘Painted stone’, L. Shekede & S. Rickerby, in Medieval Town and Augustinian Friary: Settlement c
1325-1700. Canterbury Whitefriars Excavations 1999-2004, (The Archaeology of Canterbury New
Series Volume VII), A. Hicks (ed.) Canterbury, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2015, 211-214.
2015 ‘Wall paintings at the Mogao grotto site, Dunhuang, China: color use from Northern Wei to Tang’,
L. Shekede and B. Su, in Colour in ancient and medieval East Asia, Spencer Museum of Art,
Kansas, March 8 – 9, 2013, Kansas; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2015, 47-57.
2014 ‘Conservation research at Dunhuang: the pivotal role of cave 260 for conservation education and
policy’, S. Cather, X. Wang, B. Su, S. Rickerby, L Shekede, and X, Wang, in An unbroken history:
conserving East Asian works of art and heritage, IIC 2014 Hong Kong Congress, 22 – 26
September 2014, Studies in Conservation, 59, Issue S1 (2014), S17-20.
2014 ‘New Approaches to Conserving the Wall Painting Heritage of Bhutan’, S. Rickerby, L. Shekede,
D. Tshering, T. Gyalpo, and D. Park, in An unbroken history: conserving East Asian works of art
and heritage, IIC 2014 Hong Kong Congress, 22 – 26 September 2014, Studies in Conservation,
59, Issue S1 (2014), S127-130.
2013 “Buddhist wall paintings of Bhutan: material traditions and conservation realities” in The art of
merit: studies in Buddhist art and its conservation, proceedings of the Buddhist Art Forum 2012
(D. Park, K. Wangmo & S. Cather eds.), London, Archetype, 2013, 227-239.
2013 The Conservation of Cave 85 at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang: a collaborative project of the
Getty Conservation Institute and the Dunhuang Academy, L. Wong & N. Agnew (eds.) with
contributions by S. Rickerby, L. Shekede et al., Los Angeles, Getty Conservation Institute, 2013.

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2012 “Skating on thin ice: the rare survival of two 17
th
century overmantel paintings in the City of
London”, S. Rickerby & L. Shekede, London Society Journal no. 464, Autumn 2012. 12-13.
2012 ‘Tin relief on thirteenth-century Cypriot wall painting: technology and conservation’, E. Woolley, J.
Nadolny & L. Shekede, in The Decorative, Conservation and the Applied Arts, 2012 IIC Congress,
Vienna, 2012.
2012 Wall paintings of Eton, E. Howe, H. McBurney, D. Park, S. Rickerby & L. Shekede, London, Scala,
2012.
2011 ‘Conservation of the ceiling paintings, Our Lady of Victory Church’, L. Shekede & S. Rickerby,
Vigilo – Din L’Art Helwa, October (2011) 28 – 30.
2010 ‘A unique Nabataean wall painting in Petra: Conservation in situ’, A. Akrawi and L. Shekede,
Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean, IIC 2010 Istanbul Congress, 20 – 24 September
2010 (conference proceedings). London 2010, 214-219.
2010 ‘The role of in-situ examination in the technical investigation of the Cave 85 paintings’, L.
Shekede, Z. Fan, F. Pique & L. Wong, Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road, 2
nd
International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites, Mogao, Dunhuang, China, June 28-
July 3 2004 (conference proceedings). Los Angeles 2010, 430-437.
2010 ‘Development and testing of the grouting and soluble-salts reduction treatments of Cave 85 wall
paintings’, S. Rickerby, L. Shekede, Z. Fan, W. Tang, H. Qiao, J. Yang & F. Pique, Conservation
of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road, 2
nd
International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto
Sites, Mogao, Dunhuang, China, June 28-July 3 2004 (conference proceedings). Los Angeles
2010, 471-479
2010 ‘Implementation of grouting and salts-reduction treatments of Cave 85 wall paintings’, S. Rickerby,
L. Shekede, Z. Fan, W. Tang, H. Qiao & J. Yang, Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road,
2
nd
International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites, Mogao, Dunhuang, China June
28-July 3 2004 (conference proceedings). Los Angeles 2010, 480-487.
2007 ‘Reintegrating wall paintings: priorities and dilemmas’, S. Rickerby & L. Shekede, Postprints of the
Image Reintegration Conference, Northumbria University, 15-17 September 2003 (conference
proceedings). Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2007, 81-89.
2006 ‘The role of analysis in the conservation of wall paintings on earthen supports’, L. Shekede,
International Academic Symposium on the Mural Paintings from the Tang Dynasty Tombs, Xi’an,
20-24 October 2001 (conference proceedings), Xi’an, 2006.
2006 ‘Theory into practice: establishing compatibility in earth-based repair materials’, L. Shekede & S.
Rickerby, Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture Colloquium, Mesa Verde
National Park, September 22-25 2004 (colloquium proceedings). Los Angeles, 2006, 89-98.
2003 ‘English domestic wall paintings: themes, techniques and treatment’, L. Shekede, Conserving the
Painted Past: developing approaches to wall painting conservation, English Heritage, London, 2-4
December 1999 (conference postprints). London, 2003, 27-36.
2000 ‘Wall paintings on earthen supports: evaluating analytical methods for conservation’, L. Shekede,
Terra 2000 8
th
International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture,
11-13 May 2000 (conference preprints), Torquay, 2000, 169-175.
1998 ‘The effects of LASER radiation on polychromed surfaces’, L. Shekede, The analysis of pigments
and plasters: its relevance to current wall painting and stone conservation practice, 22 February
1997, British Museum, London (conference post-prints). London, 1998, 23-25.

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1997 ‘Lasers: a preliminary study of their potential for the cleaning and uncovering of wall paintings’ L.
Shekede, Restauratorenblätter special edition (1997) 51-56.
1997 ‘Laser für die Reinigung und Freilegung von Wandmalereien: Möglichkeiten und Gefahren’ L.
Shekede, Restauro, 3 (1997), 172-177.