[4] Whilst at the University of Canterbury Te Waru Rewiri, alongside Eruera Nia and Tame Iti became involved in Ngā Tamatoa (Tuatoru) Christchurch chapter.

[5] Her honours year was supervised by Rudi Gopas and her thesis focused on pre-European Māori art, specifically stone tool carving.

[10] During the mid-1980s Te Waru Rewiri and her contemporaries such as Shona Rapira Davies, Robyn Kahukiwa and Emily Karaka gave voice to the concerns surrounding Māori women's sovereignty.

[5]: 29 As a lecturer and teacher at a tertiary education level Te Waru Rewiri has taught at Whanganui Polytechnic and in 1993 she became the first Māori women to teach at Elam School of Fine Arts.

[6] From 1996 to 2004 Te Waru Rewiri lectured at Toioho ki Āpiti on the Māori Visual Arts degree at Massey University's Palmerston North Campus alongside Robert Jahnke, Rachael Rakena and Shane Cotton.

[14] In 2012 Mangere Arts Centre Ngā Tohu o Uenuku held a survey exhibition of Te Waru Rewiri's work curated by Nigel Borell.

[17] Te Waru Rewiri is currently a senior tutor in Maunga Kura Toi a Bachelor of Māori Art at Northtec Tai Tokerau Wānanga.