Ms Kelly Domoney
Research Student
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: k.domoney@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785073
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Kelly Domoney joined Cranfield University as a MPhil/PhD student in October 2009. Her research concentrates on developing a non-destructive analytical technique for the characterisation of pigments and glazes in high-value antique porcelains for authentication purposes.
Background
Kelly Domoney graduated from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in 1998 with a BA (Hons.) in Archaeology with a specialism in the art and archaeology of western Asia. Kelly’s undergraduate dissertation comprised of an investigation into manufacture, provenance and original use of the Institute of Archaeology’s collection of carved stone pots excavated from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Mesopotamia, dating to the Jemdat Nasr period.
Kelly read a MA in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton in 2000-2001 and specialised in managing marine cultural heritage and maritime archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean. In 2002 Kelly moved to the United States and worked for four years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as a curatorial intern and then as the Hagop Kervorkian Curatorial Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art. At the museum she worked on the international art exhibition Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, and a range of departmental publications on Near Eastern art and archaeology.
Developing her interests in museum objects conservation further, Kelly trained as a conservator between 2006-2009 at University College London graduating with a MA in Principles of Conservation and MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums. Her ongoing research projects include: monitoring deterioration of the submerged wooden hull of the Elizabethan Gresham Ship (a.k.a. Princes Channel wreck, Thames Estuary), analytical investigation and stabilisation of the Gresham Ship finds assemblage, and conducting trials into drying techniques for stabilising waterlogged archaeological leather. As part of her conservation training, Kelly completed two six-month work placements at English Heritage and the Museum of London.
Selected publications
Domoney, K., Shortland, A. and Kuhn, S., forthcoming, Characterisation of eighteenth-century Meissen porcelain using SEM-EDS, Archaeometry.
Domoney, K., Shortland, A. and Kuhn, S., forthcoming, Characterisation and attribution of eighteenth-century Meissen porcelain using VP-SEM, HV-SEM and HH-XRF, in SEM and microanalysis in the study of historical technology, materials and conseervation, 9th-10th September 2010, The British Museum, London.
Karsten, A., Graham, K., Goodman, E., Ganiaris, H. and Domoney, K., forthcoming, A comparative study of various impregnation and drying methods for waterlogged archaeological leather, in Proceedings of the ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference, Grenville, North Carolina, 2010, ICOM.
Domoney, K., 2009, The Gresham Ship, Thames Estuary: Conservation of an Elizabethan Shipwreck Assemblage, Research Department Report Series 102/2009, English Heritage, Portsmouth.
