Deidre Airey

Deidre Morag Airey (9 December 1926 – 16 August 2002) was a New Zealand ceramic artist. Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She attended Epsom Girls’ Grammar School in Auckland, followed by the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine. and practised medicine in Auckland until settling in the Coromandel in 1960, where she was appointed part-time superintendent of the Coromandel Hospital.

Airey died on 16 August 2002, and she was buried at Buffalo Cemetery, Coromandel.

In 2004, a group of Airey's friends mounted an exhibition of Airey's work at Hauraki House in Coromandel. In 2008, her work was exhibited at the Waikato Museum.