Ameliah-Rose Tioriori

PhD

Conservation

Ameliah-Rose Tioriori (Ngati Korokii, Ngati Te Maara, Te Wai Ariki, Te Reinga) is an emerging Maaori conservator and PhD candidate with the Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation. She holds a Master of Cultural Materials Conservation from the Grimwade Centre, the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Te Waka Tuuhura Elam School of Fine Arts and Design, Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland. Her practice is shaped by cultural connection and identity.

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Thesis

Identity, resilience and risks for Indigenous cultural heritage

This research will support the development of co-designed and co-delivered solutions to mitigate the risk of further losses of remotely located Indigenous Community Collections. Specifically, through examining the interconnections between identity, resilience, lived experience and cultural conservation. This research is part of the ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship (ILF) project ‘Safe Keeping: Effecting Solutions for Risks to Remote Indigenous Heritage’ (2025 – 2030), led by Director of the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation Professor Robyn Sloggett. The ILF project builds on a 2016-2017 study conducted by Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation (ANKA) in which a survey was conducted on 29 Indigenous art and culture centres, known as ‘Safe Keeping: A Report on the Care and Management of Art Centre-based Community Collections’.

Research interests

  • Community conservation
  • Digital preservation
  • Indigenous epistemologies

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