Jennifer Herrick Porter is a wall painting conservator and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Conservation and Built Heritage at the University of Malta, where she coordinates, lectures and directs student field projects for the MSc course in the Conservation of Decorative Architectural Surfaces. Currently she is leading the Department's project to conserve the 16th C Matteo Pérez d'Aleccio 'Great Siege' wall painting cycle in the Grand Master's Palace in Valletta.
After obtaining an undergraduate degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Porter studied for a MA in the Conservation of Wall Paintings from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Since 2007, she has worked with institutions such as the Courtauld Institute of Art (UK), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico) and the Getty Conservation Institute (USA) on field conservation and research projects in the Americas, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, including at sites such as the Tomb of Tutankhamen in Luxor, Egypt.
Porter enjoys applying her real-world experience in the field, as a freelance conservator and researcher, to the development of a relevant and stimulating teaching program for future wall painting conservators.
