Sabine Cotte is a French-Australian paintings conservator who trained in Paris and Rome, and worked for French national museums before moving to Melbourne. She has led several workshops in the Himalayan region for UNESCO, ICCROM and private NGOs, training local people in conservation and in disaster recovery. She is an Honorary Fellow of Melbourne University’s Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. Sabine’s PhD led to the writing of Mirka Mora: A Life Making Art (2019).