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Cath Brown

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TitleCath BrownDescriptionRaised in Taumutu, Cath Brown brought together many strands in her life of service and achievement. Through her artistic accomplishments, particularly as a tohunga raranga, an expert weaver, came her influence as a teacher.

She was one of the famed Māori Arts and Crafts Advisers who boosted the teaching of Māori customary arts in schools; she was also an art educator at teachers training college. She taught weaving at workshops up and down the country. A keen sportswoman, she also served the Canterbury netball community as a coach and selector. At the same time she became deeply involved with Ngāi Tahu affairs and in the support and leadership of her home community and rūnanga.

Cath was the former chair of Te Taumutu Rūnanga and Taumutu representative to Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. She received the Queen's Service Medal for Public Service in 1995 and the Ngā Tohu ā Tā Kingi Ihaka Award in 2000 for her contributions to Māori arts.

Like the symbolic pātiki (flounder), whose diamond-shaped motif often features in Cath’s art, her life was the essence of manaakitanga – of care and generosity.

First NameCatherineMiddle NameElizabethLast NameBrownDate of Birth1933Date of Death2004Hapū/iwiNgāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāti Moki, Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu

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