Anita Larkin Come to me without a word
Anita Larkin’s long-held artistic practice visualises very contemporary feelings – prolonged flux and longing. The artist uses domestic objects and recasts their utility and usual form; they are shortened, stretched, puckered, conjoined and placed in dialogue with one another. There is a strong sense of thoughtfulness and tenderness in her compositions which, with her interventions of care and poetic staging, enliven the objects as actors who convey a reminder to engage in the present, as well as pathos.
In conversation with the artist, she said ‘I love the strangeness of the familiar objects that accompany us through life’ and has noted in the past that ‘I see brokenness not as a state
