speaker-photo

Ngarino Ellis

Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou

Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) is an associate professor of art history at Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland.

She is the author of the multi-award winning A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngāti Porou Carving 1830-1930 (Auckland University Press, 2016), and co-editor of Te Puna: Māori Art from Te Tai Tokerau Northland with Deidre Brown (Reed, 2007), and Te Ata: Māori art from the East Coast, New Zealand with Witi Ihimaera (Raupo, 2002).

Ngarino’s curatorial collaborative projects include Whakawhanaungatanga (2022-2024) at the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, and Pūrangiaho: Seeing Clearly (2001) Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

She looks forward to the November 2024 release of Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art, co-written with Deidre Brown, and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. This 600-page, 500-image ‘once in a generation’ book travels from Te Pō to today and into the future.

Go back to all Writers