Ka Mau, Ka Ora by Peata Larkin

‍Artist: Peata Larkin

‍Title: Ka Mau, Ka Ora

‍Year: 2026‍

Location: Karanga Plaza‍

Size: Each: 2400 x 3000 x 472mm

Overall: 2400 x 3000 x 3304mm

Material: Laser-cut stainless steel and corten steel

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About the artwork:

Ka Mau, Ka Ora is an architectural expression of weaving that acknowledges and celebrates Hineteiwaiwa, Atua of Te Whare Pora (The house of weaving) and honours the creative and generative strength of wāhine Māori. Ka mau, ka ora speaks to holding fast, to live and endure. It reflects the mana of carrying knowledge forward. The forms repeated evoke Aramoana, the pathway to the sea, encouraging movement towards creativity and renewal and individually as Kaokao, offering safety and protection. Visitors are invited to walk beneath and through the structures, allowing light and shadow to fall across the body so that each person becomes momentarily woven into the work.

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About the artist:

Peata Larkin graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne in 2009, after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2004). Peata Larkin’s work operates in a space between binary constructions – Māori/Pākehā, past/present, art/science, matter/spirit – weaving cultures and spheres of knowledge together into new hybrid forms.  In 2018, Larkin was the recipient of the Kaipara Wallace Arts Trust Award Residency at Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland and awarded the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award in 2006.