Ngahiraka Mason was born and raised in Te Urewera and was Maori curator at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tomaki from 1999 to 2015. Zara Stanhope is principal curator at the gallery and has written a number of books, articles and exhibitions catalogues. She has an MA from the Courtauld Institute and is finishing a PhD at ANU. Contributing writers include Len Bell, Nigel Borrell, Chanel Clarke, Jane Davidson-Ladd, Ngarino Ellis, Ales Filip, Sarah Hillary, Ute Larsen, Roman Musil and Kahu Te Kanawa.
'It's a gorgeous book. Superlatives pale - it's ravishing.' - Andrew Paul Wood, NZ Listener. 'In 2016, the Auckland Art Gallery staged an exhibition of the Maori portraits by Lindauer and commissioned this book to accompany the event. While sometimes such publications are little more than picture books with captions, I was delighted to find this publication an extensive analysis of all aspects of the works. Here we can read the background, the setting, the sitter, the painter, the journey of the completed work and finally the place held by the painting among the people for whom it is taonga.' - Kathy Watson, Booksellers NZ. 'Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori Portraits is a stunning book.' - Lyn Potter, Grown Ups NZ
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