Owen Mapp, of Paraparaumu, CNZM, for services to Maori carving and bone art
Owen Mapp played a key role in the revitalisation of Māori bone carving in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is one of the few non-Japanese expert practitioners of Netsuke carving and was selected for inclusion in the Contemporary Netsuke Exhibition in Tokyo by His Imperial Highness Prince Takamado. He was featured in the Te Papa touring exhibition ‘Whales: Tohora’ throughout the United States. He has been a guest tutor for the School of Applied Arts and Turnov Museum in the Czech Republic. He has presented papers for the Worked Bone Research Group conferences in Austria and China. His work has been included in dozens of exhibitions and publications, both in New Zealand and internationally, as well as permanent collections at Te Papa Tongarewa and Auckland War Memorial Museum.