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Roger Blackley
Senior Lecturer
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Roger’s teaching and research interests focus on New Zealand colonial art, the history of exhibitions and museums, and theories and practices of collecting.
Roger joined Victoria University’s Art History programme in 1999. From 1983 to 1998 he was curator of historical New Zealand art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Teaching (2010)
| ARTH 111 | Art History 1: Rock Art to Revolution |
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| ARTH 222 | Neoclassicism to Impressionism |
| ARTH 406 | The Cultures of Collecting |
Roger is on study leave in trimester 2 2009.
Other Teaching (Not Offered in 2010)
| ARTH 310 | Topics in Colonial Art |
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| ARTH 316 | Topics in 19th-Century Art |
| ARTH 406 | The Cultures of Collecting |
Contributions to Other Courses
| ARTH 112 | Art History 2: After the Revolution |
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| ARTH 113 | Thinking through Art |
Current Research Projects
Roger’s particular research interests are in:
- New Zealand colonial art
- the history of exhibitions and museums
- theories and practices of collecting.
Roger is currently developing The Galleries of Maoriland, a book exploring the ethnological strand of art that flourished in fin-de-siècle New Zealand. The ‘galleries’ are sites of production and display, including Henry Partridge’s Lindauer Gallery on Auckland’s Queen Street, shop windows, museums, artists’ studios, local and international exhibition courts, and an elderly collector’s sitting-room just off Regent Street in London. This project offers fresh perspectives on Maori portraiture and the related tradition of colonial Orientalism.
Selected Publications
Te Mata: The Ethnological Portrait, Adam Art Gallery and Victoria University Press, 2010. The catalogue of a 2008 exhibition that showcased a little-known series of Maori portrait busts created in 1908 by the Anglo-Australian sculptor Nelson Illingworth and currently in the Maori collection of Te Papa. Intended as representative Maori ‘types’ for an unrealised National Maori Museum, the sculptures now possess an ambivalent status—‘oscillating between Maori and Pakeha, between scientific specimen and work of art, and between the realism of life-casting and the idealisms of ethnological art’.
‘Improper Moves: Maori Haka and Racial Destiny’, in Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen, Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp. 35-64.
- places representions of the haka in pre- and post-colonial contexts within a framework of colonial racial discourse.
‘Colonial Illusions: Australasian Trompe-l’oeil Drawings’, in Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham (eds), Art and the British Empire, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007
'Beauty and the beast: Plaster casts in a colonial museum' in On
Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies, ed. Anna Smith and Lydia
Wevers, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004, pp 41-64
Stray Leaves: Colonial Trompe L’œil Drawings, Wellington:
Adam Art Gallery and Victoria University Press, 2001
Goldie, Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery and David Bateman, 1997
The Art of Alfred Sharpe, Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery
and David Bateman, 1992
Two Centuries of New Zealand Landscape Art, Auckland: Auckland
City Art Gallery, 1990
Albin Martin, Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1988 (in collaboration
with Una Platts).
› View publications by Roger Blackley
Awards and Achievements
- 1998 Montana Book Award for Goldie.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Art History Programme Director (from 1 February 2010)
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