Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login As the self-confessed “ambulance chaser of the art world”, art conservator David Stein has been the go-to guy when valuable paintings are torn, stained, water-damaged or time-ravaged. Stein and his team have just finished a six-month job preparing a 32-metre-long mural by late Australian artist Frank Hodgkinson for its new home at the International Convention Centre Sydney.

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