Damian Skinner

Damian Skinner is an art historian, writer and Curator of Applied Art and Design at the Auckland War Memorial Museum T maki Paenga Hira. He is interested in the history of cultural contact between M ori and P keh , and the relationship between art and politics in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has written numerous books, including The Carver and the Artist: M ori Art in the Twentieth Century (2008) and The Passing Wold, the Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of K whaiwhai (2010), which won the...See more

Damian Skinner is an art historian, writer and Curator of Applied Art and Design at the Auckland War Memorial Museum T maki Paenga Hira. He is interested in the history of cultural contact between M ori and P keh , and the relationship between art and politics in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has written numerous books, including The Carver and the Artist: M ori Art in the Twentieth Century (2008) and The Passing Wold, the Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of K whaiwhai (2010), which won the New Zealand Post Book Award for Illustrated Non-fiction in 2011. See less