Linda Tyler

Linda Rose Tyler is a New Zealand art historian, and is an associate professor at the University of Auckland.

Tyler completed a Master's in Fine Arts degree at the University of Canterbury in 1986, studying émigré architect Ernst Plischke.

[1] She later completed a PhD on botanist and artist John Buchanan titled Drawn from Nature: art and science in the work of John Buchanan at the University of Auckland in 2018.

[4] Tyler published a chapter on Anne Hamblett, artist and wife of Colin McCahon, and later curated the exhibition A Table Of One’s Own: The Creative Life Of Anne McCahon, which was on at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery to celebrate the tenth anniversary of McCahon House in 2016.

[11] She has also judged for a number of competitions, including for the Wallace Art Awards and the Adam Portraiture Award, and curated the 2022 Sculpture in the Gardens in Auckland Botanic Gardens.