Ngarino Ellis
Ngarino Ellis
OccupationAssociate Professor Art History
Academic background
EducationPhD, MA (Hons), BA/LLB
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
ThesisA Whakapapa of Tradition: Iwirakau Carving 1830 to 1930
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplinespecialist toi Māori (Māori arts)
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland

Ngarino Ellis is a New Zealand academic and author. She is one of only a few in her field of Māori art history and an educator. She is an associate professor at the University of Auckland. Her first book published in 2016 is titled A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngāti Porou Carving 1830-1930 with photography by Natalie Robertson.

Background and academic career

Ellis has Māori heritage and affiliates with the nations Ngapuhi from the far north of New Zealand and Ngāti Porou from the East Cape.[1]

Ellis has two undergraduate degrees from University of Auckland, Law and Art History starting in 1988 and graduating in 1993. She went on to a masters and has a Master of Arts (Honours) in Art History, from the University of Auckland, this thesis was entitled Hoe Whakairo, 1769-1850 about Māori carved and painted paddles. She did her PhD in Art History from 1997 - 2012, and her thesis was A Whakapapa of Tradition: Iwirakau Carving 1830 to 1930 (2012) which was published as a book in 2016.[1][2]

Ellis started teaching the new postgraduate Museum Studies course at Auckland University in 2013.[3]

She has won several awards for teaching in this year including in 2019 an award at the New Zealand’s Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards where Ako Aotearoa recognised her as a role model in her teaching for her Kaupapa Māori (Māori cultural) approaches and influencing both staff and students alike.[3] Ellis is a trail blazer as in 2019 she was the only Māori art historian teaching in a New Zealand university.[3]

Her research project with Deidre Brown and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki,Toi te Mana: A History of Indigenous Arts from Aotearoa New Zealand, creates a framework that draws upon the journey of Māori god Tāne to gain 'the three baskets of knowledge.'[4]

She has received three Marsden Grants from the Royal Society Te Apārangi.[5]

In teaching students about Māori art [Ellis] empowers them with an understanding of the Māori world, so that students leave her classes feeling braver, more confident and more passionate about learning.

Ako Aotearoa

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Ngarino Ellis (Q104532160).

Published works and research

Curated exhibitions

Conference presentations

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "Profile: Ngarino Ellis". Auckland University. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  2. ^ Ellis, Ngarino (1 January 2012). A Whakapapa of Tradition : Iwirakau Carving 1830 to 1930 (Thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "Ten finalists announced for NZ's Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi". www.wananga.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Borell, Nigel (16 March 2022). Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art. Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-14-377673-4. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Ngarino Ellis". Toi Ngapuhi. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Ngarino Ellis and photography by Natalie Robertson Products - Auckland University Press". aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
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