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Peata Larkin

Peata Larkin (Born 1973) is active/lives in New Zealand.  Peata Larkin is known for Painting.

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 (based on Maori weaving designs), and so the further the viewer gets away from the surface, the more the pattern coalesces.

In all Larkin’s paintings there is an undeniable presence of the digital world with visual allusion to pixilation   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1072 characters.]  Artist bio

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