Photo: Supplied by Auckland Art Gallery
Sarah Hillary is reflecting on 40 years as an Auckland art conservator following her retirement at the end of last month.
She rose from an intern at the Auckland Art Gallery to become its principal conservator - the person who preserves and manages art at the gallery.
She famously discovered a fake Gottfried Lindauer work and was credited with discovering a previously unseen layer in a Francis Hodgkins painting.
Sarah - the daughter of Sir Edmund Hillary - is now working on a history of art conservation.
Auckland Art Gallery is the oldest in the country to have employed a conservator - the first one starting in 1954.
Sarah will remain associated with the Gallery as Conservator Emerita.
