Design and Art Australia Online

THE BREATH WITHIN

Sculpture and Collage by Anita Larkin

Defiance Gallery. 6 May-30th May 2015

catalogue published.
film also made by Caroline Baum and Ashley Frost:
https://vimeo.com/126853743

Larkin exhibits works that display an intentional and playful disruption of the familiar object and the everyday.

These strange and intriguing objects include objects usually associated with sports combined with objects of war. Amongst the sculptures is a truncated telephone rendered useless by insulating it with felt, a gun that becomes a sewing machine stitching a line into the wall of the gallery, the artist’s breath made visible, and a cricket ball growing a breast.

The title of this exhibition “The breath within” suggests that objects have an inner life, a breath, a potential for story and meaning.
“The breath within me” is also the title of one of the artworks in the show. The objects are cast from the hand and lips of the artists own body, with the glass having been hand-blown to the dimensions of her rib cage.