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Review: ‘Glittering reflections’ of artists who put Canberra on the map

Nov 27, 2024 | Reviews

Review by Helen Musa in Canberra City News, 5 November 2024

In what he calls “a myriad of glittering reflections”, newly-announced director of the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Tony Oates, has curated an exhibition of work by two of our late artists who have put the visual art in Canberra on the map.

The major show, Richard Larter: Free Radical, celebrates the work of the legendary local artist who, from the 1950s until his death in 2013, mixed new science with the history of abstraction and pornography with political freedom, allowing “the chemistry of paint and its application to canvas a weapon against inequality”.

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