Peata Larkin - Artist Info

About Peata Larkin

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    Peata Larkin graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne in 2009, after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2004).

    Peata Larkin’s paintings explore the conjunctions between painting, weaving, and digital technology. Larkin’s language is that of geometric abstraction and pattern deeply informed by Maori culture. She is equally aware of the consequent linkages between past and present, craft and art, two-dimension and three-dimension.

    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 ...

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