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With extensive experience advising private collectors and acting as a consultant to corporate collections, museums and public institutions, John Gow is an expert in New Zealand art. Along with Gary Langsford, John is a founding director of Gow Langsford Gallery and was director of John Leech Gallery. Now with over forty years in the industry, John has specialist expertise in historical New Zealand art and indigenous artefacts and a personal interest in collecting 19th and early 20th-century photography, contemporary New Zealand paintings and sculpture, and post-contact Maori objects.

Currently a member of the Northern Club Art Committee, John is also a member of the Mackelvie Trust Board which manages the bequest of the Mackelvie Estate to the Auckland Art Gallery. He is also on the Board of Trustees for the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation and the Britomart Arts Trust.