Jane Malthus

Jane Malthus is a dress historian and honorary curator for the dress collection at Otago Museum with an academic background in textiles, clothing and fashion, history and fine arts. Her research explores historical, social and cultural intersections and implications of dress and textiles used by nineteenth and twentieth century New Zealanders. Involved with Eden Hore’s collection of dress since the 1980s, she is a current patron and steering group member for Eden Hore Central Otago. She writes about dressing settlers in New Zealand, production and consumption of textiles, de-accessioning, collaborative curatorial practices, and critical making. She was a co-curator of Fashion FWD: Disruption through design at Otago Museum in 2021, and curated Eden in Dunedin currently showing at Toitū Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin.

Buy Jane’s book at UBS – University Bookshop Canterbury.

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