Visually Appealing

Visually Appealing

Visual artist, art director, occasional ‘luncher’ … and a DJ, too … we present Sarah Larnach
While not deliberately, we say you’ve most likely admired Sarah Larnach’s work in your travels. She is most commonly associated with her best friend and collaborator, Pip Brown (aka Ladyhawke), but there’s so much more to this artist than making the ‘My Delirium’ singer look good while driving off a cliff.
After spending over a decade in Australia, the talented 32-year-old has returned to the place she calls home; right here in little old New Zealand!
When we spoke, Sarah was on the home straight of a 14-hour day working week completing the new album cover for her London-based friend’s Black White & Blue single.
“Our photoshoot for the painting was done with all the technical sophistication of the mac 'photobooth',  not dissimilar to the photoshoot for the Magic singles from her last album, which we did on photobooth and skype chat while on opposite sides of the globe. Pip is holding an old Agfa Click in this image, and this alludes to the theme of the music video for Black, White and Blue.
Living life as an artist in the public domain has never come as a struggle to Sarah thanks, in part, to her previous life as DJ Spandex – a title she now calls ‘cringe-worthy’.
“I was in the office of the nightclub when we realised we needed to put something up on the posters to advertise me and thought spandex was funny. Ten years on it’s no longer humorous.”
Mixing beats paid her way through a Diploma of Visual Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne. At least once a week, for over a decade Sarah played in nightclubs throughout Melbourne and Sydney; earning her friends that, in 2004 would grow to include the award-winning singer-songwriter, Ladyhawke.
“’DJing’ was never an aspect of myself I was hugely proud of,” she tells. “I wouldn’t flaunt my career in front of anybody. I’ve taken most of my business cues from my best friend. Seeing how she deals with being in the public eye and being a successful businessperson, I’ve followed her lead in that regard.”