Joana Lia Ferreira

Assistant Professor
Department of Conservation and Restoration, FCT/NOVA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Evolução das formulações industriais e tecnologias de produção, e o seu impacto na preservação
  • Gestão de colecções e políticas de conservação
  • Conservação de património moderno e contemporâneo
  • Conservação de arte contemporânea 

Projects

Coordenation

  • HERIT-AGES. ‘Idades´ do Plástico e do Vidro para quem? Exploração de novas avenidas para a valorização e preservação do património para o futuro (ref. EXPL/ART-OUT/0146/2021; 2022-2023)
  • PlasCO2 - Tecnologias Verdes à base de CO2 para a Limpeza de Plásticos em Museus e Colecções Patrimoniais (ref. PTDC/ART-OUT/29692/2017; 2018-2022)
  • Plastic Paints in Art: the impact of manufacturing processes on their long-term stability (ref. IF/00653/2015; 2016-2021)
  • O espólio de Ângelo de Sousa: inventariação e catalogação dos acervos artísticos e documentais (FCG ref. 143191; 2016-2017)

Participation

  • O Triunfo da Baquelite – Contributos para uma História dos Plásticos em Portugal; (FCT-MCTES PTDC/IVC-HFC/5174/2014; 2016-2019)
  • Europeana Fashion (Rede Best practice co-finaciada no âmbito do programa CIP ICT-PSP; projecto nº. 297167; 2012-2015)

Publications (selection)

  1. Sara Babo, Joana Lia Ferreira. A survey of acrylic sheet in Portuguese art collections. Conservar Património 2021 (in press). doi: https://doi.org/10.14568/cp2020075.

  2. Joana Silva, Paula Urze, Maria Jesús Ávila, Artur Neves, Joana Lia Ferreira, Maria João Melo, Ana Maria Ramos. Reproduction and Testing of Display Options for the Slide-Based Artwork Slides de Cavalete (1978–1979) by Ângelo de Sousa: An Experimental Study. Heritage 2021;4:260-267. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4010016.

  3. Maria João Melo, Joana Lia Ferreira, Sara Babo, Ana Isabel Pereira, Maria Elvira Callapez, María Jesús Àvila, Julião Sarmento. A new substance under the sun. How synthetic polymers were selected and transformed into works of art by Ângelo de Sousa, Julião Sarmento and Lourdes Castro. In Antonio Sgamellotti, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, Costanza Miliani (eds) Science and Art. The Contemporary Painted Surface. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020. pp. 225-248.

  4. Carolina Peixe, Conceição Casanova, Joana Lia Ferreira, Inês Coutinho. Glass Crystal Models: A First Approach to a Hidden Treasure of Teaching and Scientific Heritage. Heritage 2019;2:2495–2512. doi:10.3390/heritage2030153.

  5. Sara Babo, Joana Lia Ferreira, Ana Maria Ramos, Maria João Melo. Back to the origins: understanding the history of production and its influence on the properties of acrylic sheet. In: Bechthold T, editor. Future Talks 015. Processes. The Making of Design and Modern Art Materials, Technologies and Conservation Strategies, Munique: Die Neue Sammlung, The International Design Museum; 2017 p. 161-170.

  6. Joana Silva, Ana Maria Ramos, Bertrand Lavédrine, Joana Lia Ferreira. Preservation of an Artist’s Legacy: Ângelo de Sousa´s Photographic and Filmic Collection. Proceeding of International Sound and Image Collections Conservation, SOIMA 2015: Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage, Brussels; 2015.

  7.  Joana Lia Ferreira, María Jesús Ávila, Maria João Melo, Ana Maria Ramos. Early aqueous dispersions paints: Portuguese artist’s use of poly(vinyl acetate) 1960s-1990s. Studies in Conservation 2013;58:211-225. https://doi.org/10.1179/2047058412Y.0000000065

  8. Joana Lia Ferreira, Maria João Melo, Ana Maria Ramos, María Jesús Ávila. Eternity is in love with the productions of time, an approach to Joaquim Rodrigo classical palette in a vinyl synthetic medium. In: Learner TJS, Smithen P, Krueger JW, Schilling MR, editors. Proceedings do Simpósio Modern Paints Uncovered. Los Angeles: Getty Publications; 2007 p. 43-52.

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS

  • International Council of Museums – Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC).

 

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