BOARD MEMBERS

CHAIRPERSON

John is a Litigation Director at Thomas and Co Lawyers, specializing in Litigation and Relationship Property matter. As well as board member for Tautai, he is on the executive committee of the Pacific Lawyers Association.

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Lonnie is a leading Pacific multi-media and installation artist whose work comments on indigeneity in the contemporary world. Along with numerous large scale public commissions, her work is held in significant public and private collections throughout Aotearoa and abroad. In 2015, Lonnie was awarded the Creative New Zealand Pasifika Contemporary Artist Award.

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Kirsty has worked in education, exhibitions and public programmes roles in galleries and museums around Aotearoa, including Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Toi o Tamaki, Te Whare Toi, Toitū and has returned home to Ōtautahi to Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Kirsty has also worked in the Arts team at Auckland City Council and recently in the Ara Toi team at Dunedin City Council.

Image taken by John Collie, photographer at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.

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Leon Tan (PhD) is a creative practitioner, educator and psychotherapist whose research focusses on cultural expression and the public realm. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Public Art Dialogue (Taylor & Francis, USA) and Associate Professor of Design and Contemporary Arts at Unitec Te Pūkenga, Leon published The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm in 2020 and has presented public and participatory projects in venues including Momentum the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art (2017) and the Taipei Biennial (2012).

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William is a sixth generation resident of Aotearoa, a qualified lawyer and accountant, and a retired partner of PWC. William has had a long involvement in the visual arts and governance and has worked as a litigator and in the film industry. He was one of the founders of Artspace and a board member of the New Zealand Film Commission, Objectspace and other trusts.

He has a deep interest in the Pacific and was a long term board member of The Melanesian Trust. His governance experience includes chairing the Auckland City Mission and Artspace.