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Visual artist, art director, occasional 'luncher' … and a DJ, too … we present Sarah Larnach WHILE NOT DELIBERATELY, WE'D 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 & 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." Artists and musician's have a long history of collaborating and trend setting. Think Storm Thorgerson and Pink Floyd, Warhol and the Velvet Underground, Peter Blake and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's. And that's just that era. Closer to home the collaboration between Sarah and Pip has launched her into international stardom; her most recognisable work, a Ford Thunderbird travelling down a water- coloured desert road in Ladyhawke's 2008's My Delirium video. Sarah was flown to London for six weeks where she painted nearly all of the background scenes for the video, and the images of Ladyhawke and the car were created using a rotoscope layering technique. "It was scary and exciting," Sarah tells. "We'd been talking about doing the album cover for years then all of a sudden I had this artwork that was being reproduced by the tens of thousands, then I was asked to do the music video. I worked at Partizan Studios, which is owned www.hermagazine.co.nz | 97 ABOVE: Exactly 12 hours after this painting of indie folk band, Fleet Foxes was completed it graced the cover of VOLUME magazine. What would usually take her two weeks was put together in a hurried yet meticulously constructed five days. BELOW: The Becks Beer bottles that featured Sarah's designs. ABOVE: The colloboration between Ladyhawke and Sarah has launched her into international stardom; her most recognisable work, a Ford Thunderbird travelling down a water-coloured desert road in Ladyhawke's 2008 My Delirium video.