Ms Penelope Jackson, of Tauranga, MNZM, for services to art crime research and visual arts
Penelope Jackson was a founding Trustee of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust. She has published three books about art crime research. She was Director and Curator of the Tauranga Art Gallery, mounting a major retrospective exhibition on the work of Edward Bullmore. She curated a survey show of sculptor Jeff Thomson, which toured the country and earnt a Museums Aotearoa Exhibition award. She has curated three exhibitions of the work of Dame Lynley Dodd, which toured to 23 venues across Australia and New Zealand. Ms Jackson received the University of Auckland’s Michael King Writers Centre Residency in 2020 and has had her short stories published in anthologies.