James Mack (Galvan Kepler Macnamara;[1] 1941 – 3 June 2004) was a curator, director, advisor and arts advocate in New Zealand and the Pacific.
There he curated the 1973 exhibition Taranaki Saw it All: The Story of Te Whiti O Rongomai of Parihaka, ‘stepping into a cross-cultural role that few had undertaken in the gallery environment of the time.’[5][6] In 1974, Mack began four years at the East West Centre in Honolulu as a Senior Fellow and visiting Research Associate.
[9] Mack curated Treasures of the Underworld, a glass and clay exhibition created for the New Zealand pavilion at the 1992 Seville Expo.
The exhibition featured 48 works by top New Zealand craft practitioners and was themed to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to America.
[7] A Spiral documentary about Mack and his life, titled Sister Galvan, was released in 2004[11] and attracted praise from viewers, including Dame Gaylene Preston, who wrote "I LOVED it.