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Megan Tamati-Quennell
Megan Tamati-Quennell is the Curator of Modern & contemporary Maori & Indigenous art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She has a 27-year art curatorial practice and has been at the forefront of many developments in curatorial practice related to Modern and contemporary Maori art. Her position, which has both national and international reach, is the first of it’s kind for Te Papa and perhaps New Zealand. She is one of two contemporary Maori art curators in the country. Megan is of Te Atiawa, Ngati Mutunga, Kati Mamoe and Ngai Tahu Iwi, Maori descent.
Megan has specialist interest in the modernist period of Maori art, post war (1945) to the early 1970s, Maori womens art of the 1970s and 1980s, the work of Maori artists Ralph Hotere and Matt Pine and the work of the ‘Maori Internationals’ who came to the fore in the era of bicultural politics in New Zealand in the 1990s.