Niria Yvonne Rust QSM (19 November 1922 – 26 June 2002) was a New Zealand potter and artist.

She established a pottery workshop in an old brewery near Greymouth, and with assistance from Barry Brickell and others, built a coal-fired salt kiln.

[4] Upon the closure of the coal mine at Dobson in 1968, Rust offered to retrain miners as potters; nine accepted the offer, and one, Hardy Browning, became a successful commercial potter despite having no artistic background, later running his own studio in Nelson.

[5] In 1972, she retired from teaching, returned to her home region of Northland and became a fulltime potter at Parua Bay.

[7] A few years later, she began painting and later received an award for her work from the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington.