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Crispin Howarth

About Crispin Howarth

Crispin Howarth is the curator for Pacific Arts at the National Gallery of Australia. He is a previous president of the Oceanic Art Society and has travelled in the Ramu and Massim areas of Papua New Guinea to learn about the arts of these regions. He has curated numerous exhibitions and published over 50 articles on Oceanic art including for the Masterpieces of New Guinea Art (Turvuren, Belgium), Oceanic Arts Pacifica (Casula Powerhouse) and Red Eye of the Sun: Art of the Papuan Gulf (San Francisco) exhibition catalogues. His main publications are the four exhibition catalogues Gods, Ghosts & Men (2008), Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands (2011), Kastom: Art of Vanuatu (2013) and Myth + Magic: Art of the Sepik River (2015).

Mugus – the terrible blind god, the lord of pigs – a unique sculpture from Papua New Guinea

13/11/2017

By Crispin Howarth, Curator, Pacific Arts, National Gallery of Australia Since the mid-1920s, this masterpiece of Oceanic sculpture with its gently twisting elongated torso, oversized hands and stout powerful legs …

Read moreMugus – the terrible blind god, the lord of pigs – a unique sculpture from Papua New Guinea

New Britain art in the Melanesian Gallery

01/03/2017

By Crispin Howarth, Curator Pacific Arts, NGA The majority of the National Gallery’s Pacific Arts collection comes from Papua New Guinea; the newly reinstalled Melanesian gallery reflects this with arts …

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Unpacked: The Reverend Fellows collection of Trobriands art

01/11/2016

Public lecture by Crispin Howarth: Held at the National Gallery of Australia is a little known, rarely shown but very significant collection of Massim Art. Amassed in the late 19th …

Read moreUnpacked: The Reverend Fellows collection of Trobriands art

Tribal Art London, 2 – 5 September 2015

01/11/2015

Up until the early 1990s Great Britain had quite a number of tribal art dealers, auction houses ran specialist sales and London was central to collecting tribal art. International shifts …

Read moreTribal Art London, 2 – 5 September 2015

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