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Peata Larkin

PEATA LARKIN

You Are Here Two Rooms 7 March–4 April 2025 Auckland
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The art of Peata Larkin (Te Arawa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Tūwharetoa) is often described in terms of weaving, whether that be the fabric through which paint is squeezed in her immediately recognisable technique, the resemblance to woven tukutuku panels, or the allusions to digitised data, genetic electrophoresis, and whakapapa. In this new body of work Peata Larkin explores the ancestral energies emerging from her recent book collaboration You Are Here with her cousin, writer, Whiti Hereaka (Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, and Tainui). You Are Here is the sixth book of Massey University Press’ Kōrero series.

****The publication You Are Here will be launched on Saturday 8th March at 3 pm. The artist will attend and Ockham award-winning writer Whiti Hereaka will be speaking.

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Selected Works

A reminder of the cord that once supported you pg 32 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin A reminder of the cord that once supported you (pg 32), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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Breathe in. Breathe out. pg 36 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin Breathe in. Breathe out. (pg 36), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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Do you count minutes days years pg 21 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin Do you count minutes, days, years? (pg 21), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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even if you were as big and deep as this lake pg 78 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin even if you were as big and deep as this lake (pg 78), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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Hakihea December by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Hakihea (December), 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 75 cm
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Haratua May by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Haratua (May), 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 74.5 cm
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Here-turi-koka August by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Here-turi-kōkā (August), 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 75 cm
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Hongongoi July by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Hōngongoi (July), 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 75 cm
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Hui-tanguru February by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Hui-tanguru (February), 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 75 cm
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in the waters of your soul pg 54 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin in the waters of your soul (pg 54), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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it shapes your thoughts and language by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin it shapes your thoughts and language, 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
125 x 125 cm
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Kohitatea January by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Kohitātea (January), 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 75 cm
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Mahuru September by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Mahuru (September), 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 74.5 cm
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Paenga-whawha April by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Paenga-whāwhā (April), 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 75 cm
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Perhaps your only home pg 23 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin Perhaps your only home (pg 23), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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Pipiri June by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Pipiri (June), 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 74.5 cm
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Poutu-te-rangi March by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Poutū-te-rangi (March), 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 74.5 cm
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Remember you are not alone on this journey.Know you never were. pg 82 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin Remember you are not alone on this journey.Know you never were. (pg 82), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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the place you have returned to by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin the place you have returned to, 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
125 x 125 cm
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their names and stories are here by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin their names and stories are here, 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
125 x 125 cm
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they have watched your line grow by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin they have watched your line grow, 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
125 x 205 cm
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Whiringa-a-nuku October by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Whiringa-ā-nuku (October), 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 74.5 cm
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Whiringa-a-rangi November by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin Whiringa-ā-rangi (November), 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
115 x 75 cm
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You Are Here by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin You Are Here, 2025 Acrylic on embroidered silk
125 x 205 cm
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You are here pg 5 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin You are here (pg 5), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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you know the shape of your language pg 70 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin you know the shape of your language (pg 70), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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You recognise the shape of this by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork painting textile
Peata Larkin You recognise the shape of this, 2024 Acrylic on embroidered silk
125 x 125 cm
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you see a map to yourself pg 48 by Peata Larkin contemporary artwork print
Peata Larkin you see a map to yourself (pg 48), 2024 Giclée print (drum scanned)
46 x 37 cm
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About the Artist

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, the debates of sight and perception, of surface versus distance, of structure versus colour nuance. In this way she asserts the relevance of painting in the digital, homogenised world.

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