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Review: Sex, love and politics: The art of Richard and Pat Larter

Nov 27, 2024 | Reviews

Review by Sasha Grishin for Riotact, 15 November 2024

The Larters – Richard Larter (1929-2014) and Pat Larter (1935-1996) – have loomed large in the Canberra art scene for many decades.

Born in Britain, the Larters married in 1953 and migrated to Australia in 1962 where they settled in Sydney for 20 years. They moved to Yass in 1982, and after Pat died in 1996, Richard moved to Canberra, where he spent the remaining years of his life.

Tony Oates, the curator of this exhibition and the author of a major essay in the accompanying catalogue, termed Larter’s work as that of a ‘Free Radical’.

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