Professor Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) is a Māori art and architectural historian at the University of Auckland. She has written several books, including the coauthored Toi Te Mana: an Indigenous history of Māori Art (2024), the multi-authored Art in Oceania: A new history (2012) and sole-authored Māori Architecture (2009), and curated a number of. Deidre has belonged to boards of governance for organisations such as Objectspace, The Physics Room and the Christchurch Arts Centre and she has been a Governor of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and member of the Humanities Panel of the Marsden Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand). She is a fellow of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. Her contribution to Māori architecture was recognised with the award of the 2023 Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects' Gold Medal, the Institute's highest award.

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