Pia Larsen is a Gadigal/Sydney based artist and educator with an interdisciplinary practice  incorporating language and representation as political and poetic forms across images, objects and installation utilising print, text, photography and drawing.

An invitation to exhibit at the Megalo Print Studio, from Stephen Payne, (Artistic Director Megalo Print Studio), resulted in Desire Lines- (a path taken informally over a set route), a solo exhibition, at the Megalo Print Studio in Canberra in 2024. The works on paper explored colour and space and the politics of the female gendered body. The vivid impressions of the female breast, with signature topology of whorls and cross-strata lines, operated as a poetics of the body in a field of possibility.

In 2023 her work was part of Tomorrow … The Future … at The Cross Art Projects, Curated by Jo Holder. Gallery text: An exhibition by artists “coming from all points of the southern Sky”, as eloquently phrased in the poetry of the Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017). The works, by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, capture the Zeitgeist, or spirit of the age, and embrace a constellation of meaning on the coming Referendum on a First Nations Voice to the Australian Parliament.

In 2022 Professor Megan Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman of the Barunggam Nation, and co-architect of the Uluru Statement gave permission for Pia to create work about the Uluru Statement with the Statement text. (co- architects Uluru Statement - Pat Anderson and Noel Pearson)

In 2021 Pia Larsen was invited to teach the Contemporary Drawing Elective Course at Sydney College of the Arts/ University of Sydney. She took the initiative to re-design the course format and develop new content for semester I and II as well as recruit Mano Ponnambalam to teach and create content. She continues to teach Contemporary Drawing at SCA with current colleagues, Sue Pedley and Lisa Andrew.

She has taught in tertiary settings, secondary schools, independent workshops and public programs in Australia and Internationally. She has an MVA from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and has work in collections that include, Art Bank, (Australia’s Federal art collecting body), National Gallery of Australia, Sydney City Council, State Library of NSW, State Library Collection Victoria, Print Council of Australia, Women’s Studio Workshop, New York, Mildura Art Centre, Victoria and the Think+Do Tank Foundation.

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