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Baye Pewhairangi Riddell (born ) is a New Zealand ceramicist, composer and musician of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare descent.

Riddell was born in Tokomaru Bay in and began working with clay in the early s, while living in Christchurch.^[1] His early work fits within the contemporary movement in New Zealand craft pottery, largely influenced by the Anglo-Orientalism of Bernard Leach and Japanese potters who were influential in New Zealand, such as Shoji Hamada.^[2]:&#;80&#; Riddell, who had become distant from his Māori heritage, started putting Māori motifs on his pots, and in he became a full-time potter, the first Māori artist to commit to this profession.^{[2]:&#;80–81&#;}

Riddell built his first kiln in Christchurch at this time, but soon moved back to the North Island, living in Central Hawkes Bay and Anaura Bay before settling in Tokomaru Bay in ^[2]:&#;81&#; Here he sold work through a cooperativ baye riddell biography of abraham1 BON