The Icon Book and Paper Group Annual General Meeting to be held on Monday 4 April 2016 at 5:30pm at the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT. All members are welcome.

The AGM will be followed at 6:30pm by the Clare Hampson Memorial Lecture presented by Dr Salvador Muñoz Viñas and entitled Paper Conservation: Selective Blindness.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Dr Muñoz Viñas is a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and Head of the Paper Conservation section of the UPV Conservation Research Institute. Muñoz Viñas has worked as a paper conservator in the Historical Library of the University of Valencia, as a visiting scholar in Harvard's Straus Center for Conservation, and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at New York University. He has published a number of articles and books on practical and theoretical aspects of conservation, such as The Technical Analysis of Renaissance Miniature Paintings (co-authored with Eugene F. Farrell; Cambridge, MA, 1995), Contemporary Theory of Conservation (Oxford, 2004), and La restauración del papel (Madrid, 2010). His current research interests are in conservation theory and paper conservation techniques.

Icon Book and Paper Group Annual General Meeting and Clare Hampson Memorial Lecture