Marilynn Webb (1937–2021)

Marilynn Webb (Te Roroa/Ngāpuhi) was a descendent of Moe Ngaherehe, the forty-seventh signatory of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. She spent her childhood in Ōpōtiki. She trained as an art educator and in 1958 joined the Auckland branch of Gordon Tovey’s Art and Craft Advisory team, working also with the Northern Māori programme. Webb came to Dunedin as a result of gaining the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for 1974, and two years later her son with Maurice Knuckey, the artist Ben Webb (1976–2014) was born.

For much of Webb’s life she was curiously absent from discussions of New Zealand art history. She was a woman; her chosen medium