Catherine Field-Dodgson

Catherine Field-Dodgson (Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Te Aitanga a Mahaki) is the author of a 2003 Master’s thesis that included the first detailed study of botanical artist Emily Cumming Harris’s exhibiting practices. She co-authored Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris with Michele Leggott, published by Te Papa Press in 2025. Catherine is active in community and environmental organisations and a beginner learner of te reo Māori. She is currently researching her great-great-grandmother Keita Halbert/Wyllie/Gannon and her connections to Tūranga.