Peata Larkin was born in Rotorua (1973) and completed a Masters with RMIT University, Melbourne in 2007. Awarded Merit award Norsewear Art Award 2007. Graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University (2001-04). Recipient of Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 2006, RMIT University Scholarship for Excellence and Achievement 2006. Finalist Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Norsewear Art Award, Recipient of Mazda Emerging Artists Award 2006. Finalist Waiheke Art Award, Wallace Art Awards travelling exhibition, Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award 2005. Awarded special merit prize Norsewear Art Award 2004. Awarded merit prize Goldwater Art Award 2003.
Peata Larkin has exhibited and is collected throughout New Zealand with her work represented in significant public collections including Waikato University, Massey University, Pataka Museum of Arts & Culture and the Wallace Collection. Internationally, she is represented in collections in Australia, UK, Dubai and the USA including the Memphis Museum of Fine Art.
This painting captures Tarawera, the lake, which is where the artist’s people come from. Peata’s Maori heritage is central to her practice and this piece.
Peata Larkin has pioneered a way of painting which is unique. Acrylic paint is pushed through a weave substrate and in doing so the works acquire sculptural characteristics. Individual dots or mounds of colour (shaped by volume) are presented in an abstract pattern and the further the viewer gets away from the surface the more the pattern merges.
This piece comes highly recommended by Paul Baragwanath.
Buying committee - Glen, Kay, Blair
Purchased Nov 10
Peata Larkin has exhibited and is collected throughout New Zealand with her work represented in significant public collections including Waikato University, Massey University, Pataka Museum of Arts & Culture and the Wallace Collection. Internationally, she is represented in collections in Australia, UK, Dubai and the USA including the Memphis Museum of Fine Art.
This painting captures Tarawera, the lake, which is where the artist’s people come from. Peata’s Maori heritage is central to her practice and this piece.
Peata Larkin has pioneered a way of painting which is unique. Acrylic paint is pushed through a weave substrate and in doing so the works acquire sculptural characteristics. Individual dots or mounds of colour (shaped by volume) are presented in an abstract pattern and the further the viewer gets away from the surface the more the pattern merges.
This piece comes highly recommended by Paul Baragwanath.
Buying committee - Glen, Kay, Blair
Purchased Nov 10
