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Co-Curator
is the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Museum for 2006. She helped to establish Style Pasifika at the Pasifika Festival in Auckland. Now based in London, she has curated exhibitions, participated by invitation in academic research projects in Oxford and the US and undertaken several international artists residencies.
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Co-Curator
is a curator and lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She has curated and designed exhibitions at the Tairawhiti Museum in New Zealand, and studies and practices Maori weaving. Her book Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange has been published by Cambridge University Press.
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Festival Director
was a director and assistant director at the Linz State Theatre (Austria) from 1998 to 2000 and helped to organise the Festival of International New Drama (FIND) 2001 at the Schaubühne Berlin. In addition to his work as a producer, he is currently the Development Director of the theatre company Escape Artists. He also works as a freelance theatre director.
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Workshop Co-ordinator
is the Outreach and Publicity Organiser at CUMAA. She co-ordinates and delivers outreach events, collates and interprets visitor surveys and trains student volunteers. Sarah-Jane was previously Education Officer for Cambridge & County Folk Museum.
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Research Associate Mark Elliott has worked on a number of exhibitions at the Museum and is currently involved in research on the Museum's object and photograph collections. He has carried out field research in Kolkata, India, and teaches on visual and material anthropology and museum studies. |
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Technical Consultant
is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. Since 2002, he has developed computer applications for the museum sector. His ongoing research interests lie in the use of communications technology to enhance the interplay between museums, people and objects.
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Senior Curatorial Advisor
has worked in museums and galleries for twenty years. She has coordinated 5 major exhibitions at the Museum, acts as a consultant for international research and exhibition projects, and is actively involved in managing and conducting successful collections-based research initiatives. |
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Assistant to the Festival Director and Marketing Coordinator
has been involved in organising contemporary dance festivals in Athens and Berlin, and participated in them as a dancer. She is also a classicist currently working on her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge. |
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Production Manager
is a London-based arts manager from New Zealand. She was a co-producer of DANZ/Tempo, the largest dance festival in Australasia, and produced many theatre, dance, PR and film events in New Zealand and elsewhere. |
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Curatorial Assistant Wonu Veys has studied taonga puoro collections in New Zealand and Western Polynesian barkcloth in European, Pacific and American museums. She has conducted fieldwork in Tonga and Fiji and is assisting the visiting Pasifika Styles artists with their research. |
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New Zealand-based Catalogue Coordinator
is an art historian specialising in Maori and Pacific Island topics, and is currently writing her PhD on Tongan tapa cloth at the University of Auckland. |
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Rebecca Wilson combines freelance art publishing projects with her role as Publications Coordinator at inIVA (Institute for International Visual Arts) which promotes the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds. Before moving to London, she was Assistant Curator at City Gallery Wellington. |
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Student volunteers
The Pasifika Styles team is supported by student volunteers from the Department of Social Anthropology:
Carine Durand
Rachel Feinmark
Alice Rogalla von Bieberstein
Melanie Rouse
Rebecca Taylor
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Project supporters
We are also extremely grateful to the following people for their generous support:
Peter Gordon, Michael McGrath and Jeremy Leeming of The Providores restaurant and cafˇ, London (catering)
Alison Bartley (fundraising)
Kerry Brown (photography)
Fatu Fe'u (project support)
Billie Lythberg (fundraising, PR, freight coordination, project support) Brenda Railey (fundraising)
Aroha Rangi (London Launch coordinator)
Sarah Robins (Artist interviews and audio content)
Ann Taylor (fundraising, project support)
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (project support)
Rebecca Wilson (catalogue)
Lisa Taouma (audio-visual content)
Nicholas Thomas (fundraising, project support)
Sarah Hunter (fundraising, project support)
Stuart Gray (freight and packing)
Simone Ellis (PR advice)
Carla Hofler (publicity)
Sarah Todd (project supporter)
Mike Weston (Fundraising)
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Festival
The Right Honorable Jonathan Hunt
Bronwen Chang
Rachel Broadmore
Tony Panayiotou
Ann Taylor
Mary Fenwick
Penelope Barr
Derek Smail
Huttson Lo
Wayne Ngata
Amanda Hereaka
Ole Maiava
Louise Potiki-Bryant
Lemi Ponifasio
Dianna Fuemana
Erolia Ifopo
Fenn Gordon
Anna Cameron
Mark Amery
Anton Carter
Grace Houet
James Hadley
John McDavitt
Neil Robinson
Stephen Chard
James Peace
Katie Taney
Damon Mangos
Wendy Brown
Sam McGrath-Thompson and all the staff at CUMAA
Donna Vose
Karl and Kateia Burrows
Kitty Wishart and Philip Thwaites
Colleen Toomey
Mary Strang
Lui Brame
Mhari Gallagher
Angharad Wynne-Jones
Luke Dixon
Paul Cullen at PriceBailey LLP
Chris Evans at EBW Solicitors LLP
Chris Adams
Peter Tovey
Richard Purkiss
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