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About the Author

Dr Chelsea Nichols is the Senior Curator of The Dowse Art Museum. With a penchant for the strange, dark corners of art history and internet culture, recent exhibitions include Steamed Hams (2023), The Truth Is Out There (2022) and Candy Coated (2021). Previously, she was Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of ew Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, where major projects included Tony Fomison: Lost in the Dark (2018). Nichols completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2014, examining histories of monstrous bodies in art and exhibition culture. Since then, she has published widely on curious and overlooked aspects of both New Zealand and international art history, including the 2023 book Magic Wands Golden Skulls on The Dowse collection. She is also the creator of The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things, a long-running digital cabinet of curiosities exploring strange, uncanny and macabre relics of art and history.

Aaron Lister is Kaipupuri Mātua / Senior Curator at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. His curatorial projects include Terminal (2021), Occulture: The Dark Arts (2017), Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation (2015) and Demented Architecture (2014), as well as major exhibitions bringing artists such as Derek Jarman, Diane Arbus, Hilma af Klint, Marianna Simnett, Cindy Sherman and Cornelia Parker to Aotearoa New Zealand. Lister’s practice explores the symbolic, psychological and speculative dimensions of contemporary art, with a particular interest in mysticism, occult traditions, horror cinema, science fiction and countercultural histories. His writing and exhibitions frequently examine the unstable terrain between perception and belief, where images become charged with psychic, political and metaphysical intensity.