Roka Ngarimu-Cameron

Rokahurihia Hurihia Ngarimu-Cameron is a New Zealand Māori tohunga raranga master weaver.

Biography
In 1990, Ngarimu-Cameron established ‘Te Whānau Arohanui’, a marae and foster care centre in Waitati, Otago. The centre provides care for youth and is also a venue for Ngarimu-Cameron's weaving courses.

In 2008 she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Otago Polytechnic, supervised by Leoni Schmidt, Christine Keller, Clive Humphreys and Khyla Russell. Her dissertation studied the combination of traditional Māori weaving and loom weaving, and included a solo exhibition, ‘Toku Haerenga/My Journey’, held at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Since 2008 Ngarimu-Cameron has been a lecturer in traditional arts at the University of Otago.

In the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, Ngarimu-Cameron was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.

Ngarimu-Cameron is of the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Te Arawa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi, and is also of Irish descent.

Publications

 * Ngarimu-Cameron, R. (2010). Tōku haerenga - a transformation of Māori cloaks: Combining traditional Māori materials with western weaving techniques.
 * Ngarimu-Cameron, R., Torr, J., & Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures. (2010). Ngā kākahu: Change & exchange. Porirua [N.Z].: Pataka Museum of Arts & Cultures.
 * Roka Hurihia Ngarimu-Cameron (MNZM) (2019) Weaving the Two Cultures of Aotearoa/New Zealand Together: From the Art of Making Traditional Off-Loom Garments to a Contemporary Practice of On-Loom Weaving, TEXTILE, 17:2, 158–167, DOI: 10.1080/14759756.2018.1474000