{{Short description|New Zealand art historian, curator and art crime expert}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} thumb|Jackson in 2023 '''Penelope Jane Jackson'''<ref name=":0" /> {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} is a New Zealand art historian, curator, author and art crime expert.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 May 2020 |title=Penelope Jackson – expert on art crime |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018746003/penelope-jackson-expert-on-art-crime |access-date=19 April 2024 |website=RNZ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=New Zealand's surprising history of art crime: 'I continue to be flabbergasted' |date=2 February 2017 |first=Eleanor |last=Ainge Roy |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/02/new-zealands-surprising-history-of-art-i-continue-to-be-flabbergasted |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref> She is a trustee of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 November 2019 |title=Our trustees |url=https://artcrime.nz/our-trustees/ |access-date=19 April 2024 |website=The New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 programmes: Penelope Jackson |website=Auckland Writers Festival |url=https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/writers/penelope-jackson/ |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref>
Jackson became curator of the Tauranga Art Gallery in 2003, and became its director in 2010. She quit in 2015.<ref name= "NZHerald">{{Cite web |date=29 January 2024 |title=Back page: Penelope Jackson talks art crime in New Zealand |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/back-page-penelope-jackson-talks-art-crime-in-new-zealand/SDAC34AXTWFFU4HS2226KKPYYE/ |access-date= 21 April 2026 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref name="Houpt">{{Cite news |date=31 December 2022 |first=Emma |last=Houpt |title='What more could you want?': Tauranga art historian acknowledged in New Year Honours |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/new-year-honours-tauranga-art-historian-amazed-and-humbled/CO4P24R7FREZBBT4UKIFOIAGO4/ |access-date=19 April 2026 |work=Bay of Plenty Times}}</ref>
==Books== Jackson is the author of three books: "Art Thieves, Fakes & Fraudsters: The New Zealand Story", published in 2016,<ref name= "NZHerald"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Penelope |title=Art Thieves, Fakers & Fraudsters: The New Zealand Story |publisher=Awa Press |year=2016 |isbn=9781927249512 |pages=70–79}}</ref> "Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime", published in 2019, and "The Art of Copying Art", published in 2022.<ref name="Houpt" />
==Recognition== In the 2023 New Year Honours, Jackson was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to art crime research and visual arts.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2023 |title=New Year honours list 2023 |date=31 December 2022 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="Houpt" />
==Personal life== She married her husband around 1985. They have a daughter, who is an art historian, and a son.<ref name= "NZHerald"/>
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