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Remembering Roger Blackley (1953–2019)

This piece by Rebecca Rice first appeared on the Te Papa website. Read it in full here: https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2019/06/11/remembering-roger-blackley-1953-2019/ Our thanks to Rebecca for allowing us to repost it here in memory of the art historian and curator Roger Blackley. ‘Roger was many things to many of us: a scholar, mentor, colleague, teacher, and friend. He was, like his artist-hero Goldie, a national taonga, and he will be greatly missed.’ New Zealand art historian and curator, Roger Blackley, passed away on the 15 May 2019. Here, Rebecca Rice acknowledges his legacy. Roger Blackley, 2018 Roger and I both began our careers […]

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