Saturday 27 June • 3 - 4PM • Free Event

In Conversation
Peata Larkin & Sue Gardiner

This conversation is inspired by Peata Larkin’s current exhibition at The Arts House Trust, Silent Kōrero, which brings together works that the artist has created over the past two decades.

Peata Larkin

Peata Larkin (Te Arawa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2004) and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at RMIT, Melbourne (2008). Her practice operates in a space between binary constructions: Māori/Pākehā, past/present, art/science, matter/spirit – weaving cultures and spheres of knowledge together. Larkin’s work is held in major public and private collections including The Arts House Trust Collection, the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, The Dowse, Wellington, Rotorua Museum Arts Trust, Pataka Art + Museum, Waikato and Massey Universities, NZ Parliament, Wellington and the Memphis Museum of Fine Arts, USA.

Sue Gardiner

Sue Gardiner (MNZM)is the Chair of the Chartwell Charitable Trust, an Aotearoa New Zealand philanthropic trust dedicated to deepening the understanding of the visual arts and the creative process. She is also co-Director of the Chartwell Collection, established in 1974, as a major public collection of contemporary art held on long-term loan at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She is also co-Director of Squiggla, an educational programme that exercises free flow mark making in order to test key creative visual thinking processes. Alongside the Chartwell programme of projects, Sue has had an active art writing career in New Zealand and Australia and has been a trustee of a number of arts organisations.

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