Join Te Papa’s art curators Lizzie Bisley (Curator Modern Art), Hanahiva Rose (Curator Contemporary Art), Justine Olsen (Curator of Design and Decorative Arts), and Athol McCredie (Curator Photography) for an exclusive look at new acquisitions into the national art collection.
Visitors will be taken to two back-of-house arts storerooms to see recently acquired artworks, photographs and design objects to Te Papa’s collection.
Hear the stories behind these exciting and important works, and enjoy a close-up view of them in the collection stores.
Hanahiva Rose is Curator of Contemporary Art at Te Papa. Her research explores whakapapa, memory and imagination, as they are expressed in contemporary art.
Justine Olsen is Curator of Decorative art and design at Te Papa. She specialises in contemporary New Zealand craft and design, modernism, and its antecedents. Currently she is researching and writing towards a book on the Walter Cook collection held at Te Papa.
Lizzie Bisley is Curator Modern Art at Te Papa. Before starting at Te Papa she worked as a curator at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Recently, she has curated Surrealist Art and Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist. Her research is focused on the close relationships between art, design and architecture in the twentieth century.
Athol McCredie’s expertise is in New Zealand photography, particularly from WWI to the present. His most recent publication is The New Photography: New Zealand’s First Generation of Documentary Photographers (Te Papa Press, 2019). Current research interests include the work of Levin photographer Leslie Adkin (1888–1964), Wellington’s Spencer Digby studio, photobooks, and the history of writing about New Zealand photography. He has just recently published a book for Te Papa Press on Leslie Adkin.