Position: Honorary Senior Lecturer
School and/or Centres: Humanities Research Centre
Email: Asti.Sherring@nma.gov.au
Qualification: 2017 – 2024 UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA
PhD, Arts and Design faculty
2010-2012 MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation (Paper and Photographs)
2011 MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
Post Graduate Certificate in Photographic Conservation
2005-2009 SYDNEY UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Bachelor of Visual arts (Honours)
Asti Sherring is a time-based media and intangible cultures conservator. She has completed a Bachelor of Media Arts (honours) from Sydney University and a Masters of Materials Conservation at Melbourne University. Asti is currently the Manager of Changeable and Digital Collections at the National Museum of Australia and Time-based media art consultant at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Asti held the position of senior time-based art conservator at The Art Gallery of New South Wales between 2015-2020. She has also worked at institutions such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Asti is currently undertaking doctorate research at Canberra University, which explores contemporary conservation theories and the role of the custodian in a post-digital world.
2024, ASTI SHERRING, EMBRACING HUMANNESS IN CULTURAL MATERIALS CONSERVATION: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS ON ETHICS, VALUES AND THE FUTURE, AICCM BULLETIN, https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2024.2312755
2021, EDITOR, ASTI SHERRING AND AMANDA PAGLIARINO, AICCM BULLETIN - TIME-BASED ART SPECIAL EDITION, VOLUME 42.1, DEC 2021 DON’T YOU THINK IT’S TIME REFLECTING ON TIME-BASED MEDIA ART https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2021.2014647
2021, ASTI SHERRING, MAR CRUZ AND NICOLE TSE, EXPLORING THE OUTLANDS: A CASE-STUDY ON THE CONSERVATION INSTALLATION AND ARTIST INTERVIEW OF DAVID HAINES AND JOYCE HINTERDING’S TIME-BASED ART INSTALLATION, AICCM BULLETIN, VOLUME 42, ISSUE 1 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2021.1982540
2021, ASTI SHERRING & REBECCA BARNOTT-CLEMENT, ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES TIME-BASED ART TOOL KIT: PRACTICAL RESOURCES FOR THE DOCUMENTATION AND PRESERVATION OF TIME-BASED ARTWORKS, AICCM BULLETIN, VOLUME 42, ISSUE 1 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/10344233.2021.1993631
2020, ASTI SHERRING, DIVERGENT CONSERVATION: CULTURAL SECTOR OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TIME-BASED ART CONSERVATION IN AUSTRALASIA, AICCM BULLETIN DOI:10.1080/10344233.2020.1809907
2020 ALISON WAIN & ASTI SHERRING, CHANGEABILITY, VARIABILITY, AND MALLEABILITY: SHARING PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE OF CHANGE IN TIME-BASED ART AND UTILITARIAN MACHINERY, CONSERVATION, STUDIES IN CONSERVATION, DOI:10.1080/00393630.2020.1860672
2018, ASTI SHERRING, CAROLYN MURPHY & LISA CATT, WHAT IS THE OBJECT? IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING TIME-BASED ARTWORKS, AICCM BULLETIN, DOI: 10.1080/10344233.2018.1544341