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exhibited at
2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial 2014 -Group Exchange
Description

“Group Exchange” questioned what collaboration could mean for the 22 artists selected for this national touring exhibition. Curated by Cecilia Heffer, and first exhibited at Tamworth Regional Art Gallery in 2014 (14 August– 18 OCTOBER 2014), the exhibition then toured to other venues within Australia over the following two years.

Tags
Textile, Art
Website
http://2ndtamworthtextiletriennial.com/
Note
work shown: The Breath Between us
exhibited at
The Blake Prize, Galleries UNSW Paddington 2013
Description

The 62nd Blake Prize. Exhibited at University of NSW Galleries, Paddington, Sydney. 18 October – 16 November, 2013.

Tags
Blake Prize, art, Religious art
Website
http://www.blakeprize.com.au/
Note
work shown: Faith
exhibited at
The Wynne Prize
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Note
2006, 2008
exhibited at
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW
Description

Outdoor sculpture exhibition shown along the coastline between Bondi and Tamarama.

Tags
Sculpture, Art, outdoor
Website
http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/
Note
2002, 2003
exhibited at
The Really Big Paper Show, Tin Sheds Gallery 1994
Description

The Really Big Paper Show was first exhibited at Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, in 1994. Then toured to Tamworth Art Gallry, and Broken Hill Regional Gallery in 1995.

Tags
paper, Art, Sculpture
Note
works shown: Deciphering from the surface, and Mapping the surface
exhibited at
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2012
Description

Woollahra Council Chambers
536 New South Head Road, Double Bay, NSW
A competitive exhibition of sculpture less than 80cm in dimension. 43 artists

Tags
sculpture, art
Website
http://sculptureprize.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/
Note
work shown: Weapon of Mass Deception
exhibited at
woollahra small sculpture prize 2015
Description

10th – 25th October 2015
Woollahra Council Chambers
536 New South Head Road, Double Bay, NSW
A competitive exhibition of sculpture less than 80cm in dimension.

Tags
Sculpture, Art
Website
http://sculptureprize.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/
Note
works shown: Cricket balls
exhibited at
Me, the Road and I, Wollongong Art Gallery 2013
Description

Me, the Road and I, (narratives of refugee passage and identity) curated by Virginia Settre, exhibited at Wollongong Art Gallery.
1 June to 1 September 2013.

short film about the exhibition, filmed by Ashley Frost

Tags
Refugees -- Australia -- Personal narratives, Art, bahai
Website
http://vimeo.com/68364184
Note
works shown: 'Faith', 'Eat', 'Rest', 'Watching and waiting', and 'Thoughts that breathe'
exhibited at
The Improbable Object, Defiance Gallery, 2012
Description

THE IMPROBABLE OBJECT
Anita Larkin -sculpture
23rd May – 16th June 2012
DEFIANCE GALLERY
47 Enmore Rd
Newtown,Sydney

Tags
improbable, object, sculpture, Women artists, Found objects, Defiance gallery
Website
http://www.defiancegallery.com/
Note
Solo exhibition
exhibited at
Leaping Chair, Wollongong Art Gallery 2011
Description

LEAPING CHAIR
Anita Larkin – sculpture
Wollongong Art Gallery
30 September – 20 November 2011

Catalogue published.
Review by Gina Fairley in World Sculpture News 56. Winter 2012.

Collected objects are transformed into sculptures evoking a human narrative, revealing a strange beauty within the forgotten and discarded. The works play with the suggestion of physical movement or a practical function for the hitherto inanimate object.
Imagining life as the object, often subservient and abused, Larkin builds them anew into autonomous objects free to leap across the room, to play, to retaliate.

Tags
leaping chair, art, wollongong, Found objects, Anita Larkin
Note
Solo exhibition
exhibited at
Object Incognito, Wollongong Art Gallery 2007
Description

OBJECT INCOGNITO
Wollongong Art Gallery
23rd June – 29th July 2007

catalogue published.

This exhibition was the culmination of a one year residency at Wollongong Art Gallery focusing on a body of work exploring people’s relationships with collected objects. Larkin made fictional tools for unknown purposes, and developed sculptural narratives for found objects.

Note
solo exhibition
exhibited at
Anita Larkin -Defiance Gallery 2009
Description

25 February – 21st March 2009
Defiance Gallery, 47 Enmore Rd, Newtown.
Solo show of sculptures using collected objects.

Tags
Defiance gallery, collected objects, Sculpture, found objects
Website
http://www.defiancegallery.com/
Note
solo exhibition
exhibited at
5th Beijing International Art Biennial 2012
Description

The 5th Beijing International Art Biennale
The National Art Museum of China, Beijing.
28th September – 22nd October 2012.

work exhibited: Apparatus for the Repatriation of Tears

Tags
beijing, Sculpture, collectd objects
Note
work shown: Apparatus for the Repatriation of Tears
exhibited at
Defiance Gallery Miniature Sculpture Show
Description

Defiance Gallery has held The 6-inch miniature sculpture exhibition annually since 1995. The 2015 show celebrated 20 years of showing miniature sculpture with the only prerequisite being that all works are less than 6 inches in any dimension.

Tags
miniature, miniature sculpture, Defiance gallery
Website
http://www.defiancegallery.com/
Note
exhibited each year between 2000 - 2015
exhibited at
What tomorrow brings, Wollongong Art Gallery 2012
Description

“What tomorrow brings”
exhibition curated by John Monteleone.
Wollongong Art Gallery
30th November 2012 – 17th February 2013

8 artists invited to explore repercussions, solutions and imaginings of the future in 100 years time.

Tags
wollongong, future, time
Website
http://www.wollongongartgallery.com/
Note
works shown Bivouac, Pilgrimage, and Oracle.
exhibited at
David Harold Tribe Sculpture Prize 2008, Sydney College of The Arts
Description

David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award Finalists Exhibition SCA Galleries Sydney
2008

exhibited at
Come to me without a word, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW.
Date
29 August 2020 - 11 October 2020
Place
Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales
Description

Anita Johnson Larkin combines salvaged objects with felt, beeswax, honey and lead in engaging artworks that offer themselves up as intimate poetry describing love, longing and loss. Chairs, ladders, crutches, hot-water bottles, violins and beds, can be seen to stretch, slump, climb, smell of cloves, wrap themselves in the warmth of felt or emit the sound of bees.

Website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83qQiBD0lFc
Note
solo exhibition 2020
exhibited at
The Breath Within, Defiance Gallery 2015
Date
6 May 2015 - 30 May 2015
Place
Defiance Gallery, Newtown, Sydney, NSW
Description

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.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Breath, Defiance gallery, Felt, Sculpture, Collected objects, Found objects, Body
Website
https://vimeo.com/126853743
Note
solo exhibition
exhibited at
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2009
Date
2009
Place
Redleaf Council Chambers, Sydney
Type
Exhibition
Note
work shown: Wallop