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Zachary KingdonCurator of African Collections
Collections responsible for:African Collections On our site:World Cultures Gallery, Africa Specialist interests:My primary research interests focus on sculpture and the creative process among Makonde blackwood sculptors settled in Tanzania. Other interests include masquerade, contemporary African art, history of European artists’ encounter with African sculpture, and West African material culture and collecting during the early colonial period. I also have an active interest in museology. Current research projects:I am the curator of the African displays of the World Cultures Gallery at World Museum Liverpool and Section Leader for the Life in Africa section of the International Slavery Museum. I am currently developing a research program on African donors to the African collections at the World Museum Liverpool. Key publications:Zachary Kingdon, 2002, A Host of Devils: the History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture. (Routledge). Zachary Kingdon, 2005, ‘Sculpture and Identity: The Makonde Blackwood Carving Movement.’ In A B Cunningham, B Belcher & B M Campbell (eds.), Carving Out a Future: tropical forests, livelihoods and the international woodcarving trade (Earthscan: London). Zachary Kingdon, 2005 ‘Creative Frontiers: Sculptural Innovation and Social Transformation in Eastern Africa.’ In H. Arero and Z. Kingdon (eds.) East African Contours: ReviewingCreativity and Visual Culture, Contributions in Critical Museology and Material Culture Series (Horniman Museum: London) Zachary Kingdon and Hassan Arero (editors), 2005, East African Contours: ReviewingCreativity and Visual Culture, Contributions in Critical Museology and Material Culture Series (Horniman Museum: London) Zachary Kingdon and Dmitri van den Bersselaar, 2008 (in press), ‘Collecting Empire? African objects, West African trade, and a Liverpool museum.’ In The empire in one city?: Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past (Manchester University Press: Manchester) Email:Postal Address:World Museum Liverpool |
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