Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM Special Exhibition Talk Series: Chinese Ancient Gold Craftsmanship and Conservation

Jessie Liang

Conservator of the Hong Kong Palace Museum 

Specialising in objects conservation, Jessie Liang leads the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s object conservation and contributes to preventive conservation as well as exhibition conservation. Liang’s current research focuses on the conservation and technical study of the Museum’s gold collection. Graduated from the UCLA/Getty Conservation program, Liang has developed her specialty on conservation of archaeological ceramics, metals, and technical study of Chinese artifacts with painted surface. She has worked at the National Museum of Asian Art, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology and collaborated with the Roman-Germanic Central Museum and the Grimwade Center for Cultural Materials Conservation in the University of Melbourne and the University of Hong Kong. Liang has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals in China and internationally. A PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong she pursues her dissertation research on data science in archaeological ceramics analysis. With her key contribution, the integration of conservation and archaeology in the Shigushan Archaeological Project won the national Third Prize of Field Archaeology in 2016. She was a recipient of an UCLA/Getty conservation fellowship and a Samuel H. Kress Foundation conservation fellowship.