Edith Marion Collier (28 March 1885 – 12 December 1964) was an early modern painter from New Zealand.

[1][2] At the age of 27 Collier then travelled to Britain in 1913 and studied at the St John's Wood School of Art in London and toured throughout the United Kingdom, executing works in St. Ives, Cornwall; Glasgow Scotland; Bonmahn, Southern Ireland among others.

[3][4] Through her works, Collier explored the media of oil paint, watercolour, printmaking and pencil drawing.

After spending almost a decade receiving professional artistic training, Collier returned to provincial Whanganui where her works were met with criticism as a result of her assimilation into the radical innovations of British modernism and New Zealand's dissimilar art scene at the time.

[5][6][7][8] Collier returned to New Zealand in 1922 as an experienced artist with innovative ideas, but as a spinster in provincial Whanganui received harsh treatment, including what Joanne Drayton describes as savage, critical assessment and negative response from her own community.