Ngarino Ellis (Ng?puhi, Ng?ti Porou) is a lecturer
in the Department of Art History at the University of Auckland, New
Zealand. She is the co-editor with Deidre Brown of Te Puna: M?ori
Art from Northland (Reed, 2007), as well as the author of a number
of scholarly articles. Her prime research focus is Maori art
history, and she has also lectured on art crime, including theft,
illicit antiquities, looting, forgery and vandalism. In 2012 she
was appointed co-ordinator for the Museums and Cultural Heritage
Programme in the Faculty of Arts. Ellis is a co-investigator (with
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki and Deidre Brown) on the three-year Marsden
Fund project ‘Toi Te Mana: A History of Indigenous Art in Aotearoa
New Zealand’. A Whakapapa of Tradition is based on her 2012 PhD
thesis.
Natalie Robertson (Ng?ti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh)
is a photographic artist and senior lecturer at AUT University, New
Zealand. Robertson has an MFA from the University of Auckland, New
Zealand and is enrolled in the PhD programme at Massey University,
New Zealand researching photography in Maori contexts. She has
exhibited extensively in public institutions throughout New Zealand
and internationally.
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