Dr Penelope Jackson MNZM is a New Zealand based art historian and curator. Her books include Art Thieves, Fakers and Fraudsters: The New Zealand Story (2016), Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime (2019), and The Art of Copying Art (2022). A former curator and director of Tauranga Art Gallery, her exhibitions include the award-winning Corrugations: The Art of Jeff Thomson (2013-5), three exhibitions about the life and work of children’s book writer and illustrator, Dame Lynley Dodd (which toured to 23 venues across Australia and New Zealand), as well as An Empty Frame: Crimes of Art in New Zealand (2016-17). Penelope is the chair of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust and her PhD topic was Writing and Righting: Crime and Copying in Art History. In 2020 she was a recipient of the University of Auckland Michael King Writers Centre residency. In 2023, Penelope became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to art crime research and visual arts. Jackson also writes short stories of which several have been published including her anthology One Degree Off: Stories of Singapore (2024). Jackson’s book, The Art of Copying Art, won Best Book in the 2023 Art Writing and Publishing Awards. She curated the exhibition, Peter McIntyre: War Faces, for the National Army Museum in 2024. During 2024 Penelope was the recipient of the Booranga Writers Residency at Wagga Wagga and was also awarded a Sir William Dobell Fellowship at ANU, Canberra.