Image: Peata Larkin, Pipiri (June) 2025

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, 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.