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Nigel Borell (Nigel John Floyd Borell) was born on 1973 in New Zealand, is a New Zealand Māori curator and artist. Discover Nigel Borell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?
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Nigel Borell Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Nigel Borell worth at the age of 51 years old? Nigel Borell’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from New Zealand. We have estimated Nigel Borell's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Nigel John Floyd Borell (born 1973) is a New Zealand Māori artist, museum curator, and Māori art advocate.
Borell was born in 1973 and grew up in Ōtāhuhu and Manurewa in South Auckland.
He is a twin and has two older siblings.
Borell is Māori of Pirirākau, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, and Te Whakatōhea descent.
His early influences included the Peter Gossage series of Māui illustrated books.
At the gallery he worked for years on the largest exhibition since the gallery opened over 130 years ago called Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art. It featured work by 110 artists and brought in more visitors than any other exhibition since 1989. The documentary of the exhibition is by Chelsea Winstanley.
Borell resigned from his role at the art gallery in January 2021 soon after Toi Tū Toi Ora opened stating the there was a lack of control awarded to him in the lead up and calling for 'colonial institutions to share power more equally'.
In 2022 it was announced he would return to Auckland War Memorial Museum as Curator Taonga Māori, the role previously held by Chanel Clarke.
Borell is a trustee and curator of The Wairau Māori Art Gallery in the Hundertwasser Building in Whangarei, the first public Māori art gallery solely dedicated to profiling Māori artists and curators.
Borell’s meetinghouse projects include:
The kowhaiwhai and mural work for "Te Pou Herenga Waka' meetinghouse, James Cook High School Marae, Manurewa (1993-94) The kowhaiwhai and mural work for "Matukurua" meetinghouse Manurewa Marae, Manurewa (1994-95) The papaka kowhaiwhai panels for "Rakairoa" meetinghouse Harataunga Marae, Kennedy Bay, Coromandel (1995-96) The kowhaiwhai rafter panels for "Kete Uruuru Matua" meetinghouse Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae, (1999-2000) Manukau Institute of Technology, Ōtara. The kowhaiwhai rafter panels for "Te Puna Matauranga" meetinghouse Northtec Marae, Whangarei (2015) The kowhaiwhai panels - assisting Saffronn Te Ratana for "Te Whaioranga o Te Whaiao" meetinghouse Te Rau Karamu Marae, Massey University Wellington (2016-2018)
He has hands-on experience in Māori arts, working on three meeting house projects under tohunga whakaio Pakariki (Paki) Harrison 1995-2000 and kowhaiwhai artist Peter Boyd, and has been influenced by Māori curators Megan Tamati-Quennell and Ngahiraka Mason.
He completed a Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts at Massey University in Palmerston North in 2000.
There he studied under Robert Jahnke and the Toioho ki Apiti programme.
He followed this by completing a Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2003.
Borell was Associate Curator Māori Art at Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira from 2013 and Curator Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery since 2015.
He curated the exhibition Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in 2020, the largest exhibition since they opened.
In 2021 the Art Foundation of New Zealand created an award (He Momo – A Moment in Time Award) to acknowledge the work of Borrell in this exhibition.
