Professor Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) joins our media adviser Julianne Evans to reflect on her 12-year collaboration with Professor Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) and the late art historian Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (1943-2014) on their award-winning book, Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art.

Ngarino also shares insight on how art can weave together different generations and communities, and the importance of Māori art to everyone in Aotearoa.

Read more here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2024/12/02/toi-te-mana-authors-brown-ellis.html

Published by Auckland University Press and Chicago University Press, Toi Te Mana won the 2025 BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. More about the book here:  https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/toi-te-mana/