Pip Devonshire

Pip Devonshire (born 1966) is a New Zealand weaver, curator and weaving tutor. Part of the iwi (tribes) of Ngāti Te Au, Ngāti Manomano and Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Devonshire descends from several notable weavers. She began weaving in the 1980s and graduated from Te Wānanga o Raukawa with a bachelor's degree of design in art in 2000. After graduation she lectured there for two decades. Her works have been exhibited in various New Zealand institutions and galleries, including in the national museum Te Papa. She has also curated various exhibitions and works as a curator at the Mahara Gallery in Waikanae.

Biography Devonshire was born in 1966. She is part of the iwi of Ngāti Te Au, Ngāti Manomano and Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga. Her grandmother Rangimahora Reihana-Mete and great-grandmother Ranginui Parewahawaha Leonard were also weavers. She learned to weave kete whiri (woven baskets) at Paranui Marae, Himatangi, in the 1980s, In 1994 she created tukutuku for Taumata o Te Rā marae and kōwhaiwhai for her whare tūpuna (ancestral house).

After graduating from Te Wānanga o Raukawa with a bachelor's degree of design and art in 2000,

In 2020 Devonshire and Sonia Snowden were appointed as the first Ngā Aho Whenua Weavers in residence at the Toi Matarau Gallery as part of the Māoriland Film Hub in Ōtaki. During this residency Devonshire curated the exhibitions Te Ringa Māhorahora and Te Rōpū Wāhine Toko I Te Ora of Te Awahou. The latter commemorated the 70 years of work of the Māori Women's Welfare League.

She has been involved with the Te Taitoa Māori o Te Awahou Trust and acted as the spokeswoman in relation to the building of a cultural and community hub Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom.