Maureen Robin Lander MNZM (born 1942 in Rawene) is a New Zealand weaver, multimedia installation artist and academic.

Lander is of Ngāpuhi (Te Hikutu subtribe) and Pākehā (New Zealand European) descent[1] and is a well-respected and significant artist who since 1986 has exhibited, photographed, written and taught Māori art.

[3] Lander began learning weaving with noted Māori weaver Diggeress Te Kanawa in 1984 and spent many years researching fibre arts.

[2] Lander was first introduced to muka (flax fibre) by noted weaver Diggeress Te Kanawa in 1984, when she went to stay several times with the senior artist at Ohaki Maori village, near Waitomo and learned the basics of preparing materials and techniques such as whatu (finger twining).

However, this particular art exhibition was located in what was also an ethnography and history museum, within which the collection, cataloguing, and display of things like kete divorces them from their cultural, spiritual and/or utilitarian contexts and transforms them into artefacts.

[12] Lander also made new pieces, including the site-specific installations Airy-Theory Artefacts (woven objects suspended in front of a screened window) and Tane Raises His Eyebrows (a crescent-shaped weaving placed over a decorative wooden door lintel).

In the publication accompanying the exhibition, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology curator Anita Herle wrote The work references the New Zealand Foreshore and Seabed Act of 2004, which empowered the New Zealand government, 'the Crown', to override tribal rights to pursue customary claims to the foreshore and seabed through the courts.

Strands of pingao fibre, stitched into the fabric lining at the back of the case, form inverted U-shapes representing the raised eyebrows of Tane (god of the forest).

Researching her own family history, Lander found descriptions of Hariata written by her great-great grandfather James Johnston Fergusson.

One document describes Hariata leading 700 men; another as being ‘young, tall, and rather goodlooking’, wearing ‘a tartan dress with red sash slung around her shoulders like a shepherd’s plaid’.

[18] In 2023 Maureen Lander, in collaboration with artist Denise Batchelor and composer Stìobhan Lothian, created the online artwork Hukatai ~ Sea Foam as part of the international art project World Weather Network.