Recent Projects | Robert Griffin, Heritage & Conservation

2023-present – Advice to National Trust (NSW) on historic interiors, furnishings and collections at properties throughout NSW.
2022-present – Conservation Management Plan for Tulkiyan, Gordon NSW (State Heritage Register No. 01733). Probably the most intact Arts & Crafts house in NSW, designed in 1913 by B J Waterhouse & J W Lake.
2020-23 – Significance assessment of Australian furniture collections for the National Trust (NSW)
2020-23 – Assessment of Conservation Management Plans for State Heritage listed properties for Heritage NSW
2020 – National Trust (NSW) 75^th Anniversary exhibition – research, development of exhibition themes, delivery of exhibition content and displays
2019 – Research and contributing author, Conservation Management Plan, Former Reader’s Digest Building, Surry Hills, NSW (1967) by Design 5 Architects.
2018 – Significance assessment of interiors and fabric of ‘Rose Moran’ (c. 1906), Wahroongah, Sydney, NSW.
2017-2023 – Director of conservation and interpretation, Tulkiyan, Gordon, NSW, for Ku-Ring-Gai Council and Historic Houses Association of Australia.
2017 – Heritage Impact Statement, Tulkiyan, Gordon, Ku-Ring-Gai Council.
2016-2017 – Senior assessor of conservation management plans for Millers Point State Heritage listed conservation area, Heritage Division, Office of Environment and Heritage (now Heritage NSW).
2015 – Research, planning and implementation of oral history program on the development, construction, use and conservation of the Sydney Opera House for the Sydney Opera House Trust, The Getty Foundation: Keeping it Modern project.
2015 – Wellington Police Station and Gaol Conservation Management Plan for Wellington Council including guidelines and proposals for future use.
2015 – Significance assessment within heritage conservation areas for the City of Sydney Council.
2014 – Heritage projects for Federal Government Official Establishments: interiors and collections assessment, conservation and refurbishment advice.
2014 – Conservation Management Plan, Rouse Hill House & Farm, Sydney Living Museums
2014 – Development of exhibition framework for NSW Government Architect’s Office Bicentenary exhibition.
2013 – Interpretation Plan, Sherwood Scrubs c.1870 (AT Holroyd Estate), Merrylands for AJA Architects.
2013 – Heritage Impact Statement, Albert Palais c.1930, Leichhardt
2013 – Heritage advice for collections and interior conservation, Government House, Sydney.
2012 – Analysis and interpretation of historic photographic images for the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
2012 – Conservation advice for historic fabric and collection for Walter Burley Griffin House, Telopea.
2012 – Significance assessment of collections and policy outcomes for Government House, Sydney.
2012 – Sydney Hospital Bicentennial exhibition involving research, development and realisation of exhibition material, site interpretation and heritage trail.
2011 – Significance Assessment of the collections held at Throsby Park, Moss Vale and Government House, Sydney for Sydney Living Museums.
Conservation and refurbishment of the State Rooms and their collections at Government House, Sydney (2008 EnergyAustralia/National Trust Award of Excellence for Conservation).
Conservation and adaptation of the historic Coining Factory buildings, Sydney Mint – (now Headquarters for Sydney Living Museums). Director of Conservation and development and realisation of site and collections interpretation (2005 Greenway Award for Conservation, Royal Australian Institute of Architects (NSW) and the national 2005 Lachlan Macquarie Award for Conservation, Royal Australian Institute of Architects).