In September I will be exhibiting in Paper Contemporary with Unlimited Sydney, as part of Sydney Contemporary, 

13 - 16 September, Carriageworks, Sydney. I am Co-director with Janet Parker-Smith for Unlimited Sydney, a group of five artists' that includes Janet Parker-Smith, Anthony Bartok, Jo Lankester and Angela Hayson. The Curator for Paper Contemporary is Akky van Ogtrop.

In May I will travel to Mildura, Victoria for an Artist's Residency at the Art Vault, with artist Janet Parker-Smith. 

For the Factory49 Group Drawing Show 29 March - 7 April, I created a drawing work on site titled 'Gauge' using knitting needles in an exploration of space, movement and colour.

                                        Artist: Pia Larsen

                                        Title: Gauge

                                        Year: 2018

                                        Materials: plastic knitting needles

                                        Dimensions: variable

I also exhibited in the Factory49 Group Sculpture Show, 1 March - 10 March - part of Art Month Sydney.

The work titled 'Play Well' was created using Lego in an open-ended exploration of form, space and colour.

                                                  Artist: Pia Larsen

                                                  Title: Play Well

                                                  Year: 2017

                                                  Materials: Lego

                                                  Dimensions: 48cm x 48cm x 60cm H

The year started with exhibiting in the Factory49 Group Print Show 1 February - 10 February. 

The piece titled Manifesto was a response to the way language and information are being used to promulgate ideas that run counter to facts, science and history. As if all ideas are contestable in a scrabble-like game.

                                                    Artist: Pia Larsen

                                                    Title: Manifesto

                                                    Year: 2018

                                                    Materials: printmedia + paper

                                                    Dimensions: 177cm H x 85cm W x 2.5cm D 

In 2017 I created a wearable work titled Comet. The series is ongoing. Each piece is unique and combines lino and a range of printmedia and drawing processes on rag and other papers. They are hand-finished, lightweight and durable, mounted on 5mm thick gatorboard.

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The year concluded with the Melbourne launch of the book, ‘Gerald Lewers Sculptor’, by the late Professor Peter Pinson, about my maternal grandfather Australian Sculptor Gerald Lewers, husband to Abstract Expressionist painter Margo Lewers. After Margo's death in 1978 the family home was given to Penrith Council by their daughters, Jeweller Darani Lewers and Printmaker/Architect Tanya Crothers and is now the Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest.

A film about Gerry’s life and work is on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/209047680

November

2017 also completed Chapter 1 of the ‘What We Know’ Project with the launch of 'The Motion Room', September 30 – November 19, at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The 10 images in printmedia from the 'What We Know' Project presented stories from the most diverse part of Greater Western Sydney and Sydney, in images that explored everyday life with its many cultures, perspectives and histories. An article I wrote about the project to accompany the ‘The Motion Room’ Exhibition is available on: http://imprint.org.au/posts

Jane Stratton (Creative Director, Think + DO Tank Foundation) and I worked together during the workshops and subsequent exhibition at CPAC; our vision to involve more people over time and expand the project as a creative voice for the community in Western Sydney. The project was assisted by the Australian Government, through the Australia Council for the Arts its arts funding and advisory body. Jane Stratton developed the original concept as one of a series of ongoing projects that investigate, support and operate as a means to increase community control over everyday life in Green Valley, Liverpool and central Fairfield. 

The work I created for the ‘What We Know’ Residency, titled ‘Glow’.

                                                            Artist: Pia Larsen

                                                            Title: Glow

                                                            Dimensions: 56 x 76cm

Images from the printmedia workshops held at the Liverpool Women’s Resource Centre and Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2016 – 17.

                                   Naimeh Abu-Qalbain pulling a proof at the Liverpool Women’s Resource Centre

Jane Stratton, Pia Larsen, Michelle Munzone, Vicki Wacha, Zahra Mahde & Susan Stewart in the Printmedia Studio, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.