Elements and Performance Criteria
- Recognise artwork
- Customer requirements relating to the artwork are determined
- Work area is cleaned and prepared to handle artwork in accordance with workplace standards
- Workplace health and safety requirements, including personal protection needs, are observed throughout the work
- Workplace quality assurance requirements are recognised and adhered to throughout the work
- Tools, equipment and materials are selected and checked prior to use to ensure that they are appropriate for the work in terms of quality, serviceability and safety
- Artwork is handled in accordance with industry recognised handling methods and workplace procedures
- Artwork is examined to identify:
- period of artwork
- its composition
- any historic, monetary or sentimental value
- Identify restoration/conservation requirements
- quality, value and appropriate handling techniques/requirements
- its composition and production techniques
- any restoration/conservation required
- compatibility of mounting processes, including type of mounting and composition of substrate material