Dr Andrea Low is Associate Curator, Contemporary World at Auckland Museum where she was a co-curator of the major exhibition Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Stories of Auckland. She is a regular contributor to the Museum website of articles that trace histories of Pacific peoples in Tāmaki Makaurau and the wider Pacific. The contemporary entanglements of history, identity, biography and place are central to Andrea’s research interests.
Andrea's doctorate Sound Travels, researched the transmission of Hawaiian music through the Pacific, Australasia and Asia in the period between the two world wars. As well, Andrea has an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Auckland. A council member of The Polynesian Society, Andrea is also a co-opted member of the board of Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Art Gallery and a member of the advisory board for Marinade, Aotearoa Journal of Moana Art.
Andrea traces her moʻokuʻauhau* to the ahupuaʻa of Kahana in Hawaiʻi; to the village of Fasito‘otai, in Samoa; to Tongareva, Fanning Island and Fiji and has ties to both Ayr and Argyle in Scotland.
*Genealogy