Owen Mapp

Owen Thomas Mapp CNZM (born 1945) is a New Zealand carver who works primarily in bone.

[2] He started working in museums while at high school and developed a strong interest in archaeology.

[4] In 1990, he received a QEII Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand) study grant and established a connection with Japanese netsuke carvers.

[5] Mapp tutors at Whitireia New Zealand in the Visual Arts and Design programme.

[6] In his survey of three-dimensional arts in New Zealand in 1980, Peter Cape wrote, 'Mapp prefers to think of the items he carves in bone and ivory as handpieces or, as he says, 'three-dimensional sculptures to be worn on the body or carried in the pocket, to be held, fondled, and not just looked art'.