Peata Larkin

𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻: Silent Kōrero 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟴 𝗠𝗮𝘆, 𝟱.𝟯𝟬–𝟳.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 Join The Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead on Thursday 28 May for the opening of ‘Silent Kōrero’, a major new exhibition by Peata Larkin (Te Arawa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa). Everyone is welcome to join us in celebrating with the artist and The Arts House Trust team. 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 28 May – 16 August 2026 @peatalarkin #TheArtsHouseTrust #PeataLarkin #ExhibitionOpening #OpeningEvent Image: Peata Larkin, 𝘈𝘵𝘢𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘪 𝘕𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 2022 (detail). Courtesy of the artist.

I created this painting ‘Hekenga’ in 2003. It will be included in my exhibition ‘Silent Kōrero’ at the Pah Homestead opening May 28th. Opening celebration is on Thursday May 28th at 5:30pm so I hope to see you there! Thank you to @tworoomsgallery and the wonderful team at @theartshousetrust , such a pleasure to work with! Mauri ora.

Liam standing within Ka Mau, Ka Ora on Saturday afternoon. The weather was beautiful! It was great to capture the sun’s rays echoing the shape of the sculpture. Reflecting on this moment…It was an honour to have my mahi included in the @aotearoaartfair sculpture trail. Humongous shout out to @suewaymouth.art and Jenny @tworoomsgallery and to @longveld for your support and hard work! Also thank you @angus_muir_design for helping with deinstalling the work along with my amazing beautiful husband Nige…and thank you to friends & whānau for sending me images, such a buzz! Mauri ora. ❤️🙌🏽❤️

The Aotearoa Art Fair opens at Auckland's Viaduct Events Centre today with 60 galleries, more than 200 artists, and a waterfront sculpture trail that’s nearly tripled in size. Watch and Read the article on NBR.

Hineteiwaiwa (2026)_detail images with lights on @tworoomsgallery @aotearoaartfair

Peata Larkin's practice is rooted in Te Whare Pora – as both a physical and spiritual space – exploring holding, endurance, and the transmission of ancestral knowledge through the weaving traditions of raranga and tāniko. We spoke with Peata about movement, scale, and how reflective, layered materials create a dialogue between lightness and weight, earth and atmosphere. You can see her work on the Sculpture Trail presented by @viaductharbour right now, and at the Fair from next Thursday 30 April – Sunday 3 May. Read the full kōrero at the link in bio. Pictured - Hineteiwaiwa (detail), 2026 Silent Kōrero (detail), 2026 Silent Kōrero, 2026

It was a beautiful morning as we gathered to bless the final sculptures that were installed for the @aotearoaartfair Sculpture Trail, my mahi alongside Lisa Reihana’s and @gregor_kregar ’s, two artists I deeply respect and admire. It was special to walk through the works together and witness the dialogue between Lisa’s installation and my own, and the connections that emerged in that shared space. A huge thank you to @suewaymouth.art for your ongoing tautoko and dedication to the artists! To my beautiful husband, thank you for making the non-slip platform for the installation and to @tworoomsgallery and @longveld , I’m so grateful for your continued support and mahi! Also thanks to the people that shared these great images with me! Mauri ora ✨

At the dawn karakia yesterday morning, I attended the activation of the remaining works on the Aotearoa Art Fair Sculpture Trail. There is something about arriving into a work at that threshold hour, light still forming, harbour still holding its night breath. That encounter shifts how a sculpture is read in the body, as a spatial proposition to enter rather than an object to be viewed. Ka Mau, Ka Ora by Peata Larkin is enveloping. As we moved through it, we were briefly folded into its conditions: light, shadow, steel, air. The work gathers, holding the viewer within its spatial logic. Ka Mau, Ka Ora: holding fast, living, enduring… reads here as both instruction and acknowledgement. The work honours Hineteiwaiwa and the generative force of Te Whare Pora (the house of weaving), while insisting on continuity as a lived practice: knowledge carried forward. What struck me most was how the structure works with shadow as much as form. Light breaks across the body as you move through it, producing an intermittent visibility. That in-between condition feels important: a space where perception and knowing are unsettled, responsive, and relational. The forms suggest shelter, but a shelter that allows passage; a safety that holds a tension between care and exposure, grounding and movement …an ongoing transition rather than a destination. Proud of you e hoa! @peatalarkin Well done @suewaymouth.art and @aotearoaartfair 💙💙💙

Ngā mihi for the blast from the past image @lynettefisherart ! This was in 2006 when Michael Armstrong chose my painting ‘Whati.pntg’ for the premiere award at the Molly Morpeth Art Awards. Farout 20 years ago! Interestingly, there’s a definite connection between this work and my sculptural installation now installed outside the Viaduct Events Centre.

𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻: Silent Kōrero • 𝟮𝟴 𝗠𝗮𝘆 – 𝟭𝟲 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 We’re delighted to announce ‘Silent Kōrero’, a major new exhibition by artist Peata Larkin (Te Arawa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa), opening at The Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead, on 28 May. ‘Silent Kōrero’ is conceived as a gathering — a quiet hui of conversations that have unfolded in Peata Larkin’s studio over the past two decades. It brings together works created across time, uniting the past to the present. Each artwork carries the memory of the one before it, where the symbolism of tukutuku, tāniko and raranga operate as a personal and collective visual language and acts of reclamation. They embody knowledge and genealogy, and embrace the rhythms of the artist’s tūpuna, who wove, bound, and carved before her. “The Language of creating, to me is layered. It is Whakapapa, history, materiality, colour, composition and repetition. It is rhythm, memory and communication. Silent Kōrero is my offering, a body of past and present works that speaks through action and vision, that carries generations within it. It holds healing, memory, and return. Creating is my way of expressing that I am here and that I am listening and learning from my tūpuna.” — Peata Larkin, 2026. 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 28 May - 16 August 2026 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 Thursday 28 May, 5:30 - 7:30PM @peatalarkin #TheArtsHouseTrust #PeataLarkin Image: Peata Larkin, ‘Silent Kōrero’, 2026 (detail). Courtesy of the artist.

Detail image of my painting/lightbox that will be exhibited with @tworoomsgallery at the @aotearoaartfair ‘Hineteiwaiwa (2026)’_Lights off - Detail Acrylic transparent mediums on mesh & flexiface membrane on LED Lightbox unit 1585mm x 1135mm

Blown away with these images of my mahi ‘Rauhea’ that sits in the Red Square in Tauranga Moana taken by @massiveicetrain …Thank you for the aroha and appreciation! 🙌🏽♥️🙏🏽 Mauri ora