ARTIST: Marie Larkin (Australian, 20/21 centuries)
TITLE: Sweets and Sass
YEAR: 2016
MEDIUM: acrylic on board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 10 x 10 inches / 25 x 25 cm
FRAME SIZE: 11 x 11 inches / 27 x 27 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
NOTE: has artist's label on verso
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 131126
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BIOGRAPHY:
Marie Larkin is an Australian artist working from her loft studio overlooking the plains and hills on the outskirts of Tamworth NSW. She graduated in 1979 with a BA Visual Art Education from Alexander Mackie and has over 30 years experience as an Art Educator at both public and private schools, TAFE and the Regional Galleries of Australia. In the 1990's she began her career as an artist, making fine embroidered pieces revealing aspects of her daily life as a mother. She won both The Dame Nancy Buttfield Embroidery Prize and The Namoi Valley Cotton Fibre Acquisitive Award for her work. Her exhibition '?Revealing Threads' was the recipient of a 10,000 AUD Arts Grant and toured regional galleries in three states. More recently she has been a finalist in the Blackstone Works on Paper Prize and the Lethbridge Small Works Prize and a semi finalist in the Doug Moran National Portraiture Prize. From 2010 to 2020, Marie earned her place as one of Australia's most successful Lowbrow artists with a substantial global following of fans and collectors. She has exhibited with galleries such as Corey Helford Gallery and Copro Nason in Los Angeles, Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco , AFA Gallery in New York and Urban Nation in Berlin. Marie's embroidery and Pop Surrealist artwork has been published in leading art journals, magazines and books, in Australia and worldwide. Her works are held in private and public collections in Australia and overseas.