Crafting Aotearoa : A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania. This item is unavailable.Crafting Aotearoa : A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania

A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, and proposes a new idea of craft one that acknowledges Pākehā, Māori and wider Moana histories of making, so that the connections, as well as the differences and tensions, can be identified and explored.

Kolokesa U Mahina-Tuai has a background in art history, social anthropology and museum and her-itage studies and was curator of Moana Oceania cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa from 2004 to 2008 and Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira from 2013 to 2017. She has been a guest curator and consultant for Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, and a consultant for Alt Group and the Government of Tonga's Culture Division, Ministry of Tourism. She is co-author of Nimamea`a: The fine arts of Tongan embroidery and crochet (Objectspace 2011), Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the people of the Pacific (Te Papa Press, 2012) and Kolose: The Art of Tuvalu Crochet (Mangere Arts Centre - Nga Tohu o Uenuku, 2014). Damian Skinner is a Pakeha art historian and curator who lives in Gisborne. He received his PhD in art history from Victoria University of Wellington in 2006, for a thesis exploring the dynamic rela-tionship between customary and modern Maori art in the twentieth century. He has written a number of books about Maori and Pakeha art, and Pakeha craft. His most recent book is Theo Schoon: A biography (Massey University Press, 2018). Karl Chitham (Nga Puhi) is Director of the Dowse Art Museum and was formerly the Director and Curator of Tauranga Art Gallery. He has been involved in the arts in Aotearoa in a variety of roles for over fifteen years. His projects have included a series of exhibitions and accompanying publica-tions highlighting contemporary toi Maori such as Whatu Manawa: Celebrating the weaving of Matekino Lawless, Toi Mauri: Contemporary Maori art by Todd Couper and Whenua Hou: New Maori ceramics.