BIOGRAPHY
1929 Born in London, England. Migrated to Australia in 1962.
1990 Visiting Senior Lecturer in Painting, University Auckland, New Zealand.
1987 Artist-in-Residence, University of New England Armidale, New South Wales.
1988 Artist-in-Residence, Riverina CAE, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Richard Larter: Mining the Archive II, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Recent Paintings and Mining the Archive 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005,
Watters Gallery, Sydney
The Larrikan Larters, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2005 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Stripperama, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Watters Gallery, Sydney
2000 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1999 70th Birthday Celebration, Watters Gallery & Legge Gallery, Sydney
Solander Gallery, Canberra
1998 Watters Gallery, Sydney
Floriade, Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra
1997 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Watters Gallery, Sydney, with Pat Larter
1995 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1994 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1993 Figures, with Euan Macleod, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1993, 91 & 89 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1989 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1988 & 86 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1987 Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1986 Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
1985 Anima Gallery, Adelaide
Richard Larter: A Survey 1985, University Art Museum, Queensland University and touring.
Gerstman Abdallah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
1984 & 82 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1980 Solander Gallery, Sydney
1980 & 79 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1983, 81 & 79 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1978 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1977 & 76 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Watters Gallery, Sydney
1976 Art Gallery of South Australia (Link Exhibition)
1975 Watters Gallery, Sydney
Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
1974 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1973-1965 Watters Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Celebrating 25 Years of Australian Art, Artbank, Sydney and touring
2006 Blue Chip VIII, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968–2002, NGV Australia, Melbourne
2001 Robert Klippel, Richard Larter, Tony Tuckson, Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth
A Century of Collecting 1901–2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Blue Chip II: The Collector’s Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2000 On the Brink: Abstraction in the 90s, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Restricting the Palette: Colour and Land, Canberra School of Art Gallery,
Canberra
1999 Erotic, Melbourne Fine Art Gallery
1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Art & Furniture of the 1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Blue Chip Choice: Collectors Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
The Female Form Divine, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Symbiosis, Utopia Art, Sydney; New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
1997 Wall to Wall, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Of the Air: Warfare, with Ian Howard and Ken Whisson, Watters Gallery,
Sydney
1996 Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
The Joan & Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian
Art, (winner), National Gallery of Victoria
The Contemporary Collection II, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney.
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Triennial of Australian Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1995 & 96 In and Out of Abstraction (with Dick Watkins & Howard Arkley), National Gallery of Victoria
Australian Art 1940-1990, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
1995 & 68 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Hidden Treasures, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings – Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Death, curated by Felicity Fenner & Anne Loxley, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1991 Artists Make Books, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Art on the Campus, Ivan Dougherty, Sydney
Visual Instincts, Holdsworth Galleries, NSW
Cambrat: A selection of works by artists from the ACT and districts, Drill HallGallery, ACT
L’Ete Australien A Montpellier, France
1989 Prints and Australia: Pre-settlement to Present, National Gallery of Australia,ACT
Australian Paintings from the Joseph Brown Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Art Post 1960, Deutscher Gertrude St, Melbourne
First View from the Collection, MOCA., Brisbane
Portrait of a Gallery, Watters Gallery 25th anniversary exhibition, touring
regional centres Work from the studios of….., with Klippel, Plapp, Varvaressos, Eager & Bettinson
1988 Australian Art: 1920s-1980s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
The Great Australian Art Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery & all State Galleries
First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Drawing in Australia from 1770s to 1980, Australian National Gallery, ACT
Australian Art Post 1960, inaugral exhibition
The Caddy Collection, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Max Watters’ Collection, Muswellbrook Art Gallery, NSW
1987 Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria
Works from the Collection, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
Contemporary Art in Australia – A Review, Museum of Contemporary Art, QLD
1986 Oz Drawing Now, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, NSW
Thirty Three Man Painters (The Male Sensibility?), Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Art: Colonial to Modern, Deutscher Fine Art at Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Perth & ‘Lindsay’, Sydney
Two Centuries of Australian Painting, Orange Regional Gallery
1985 Recent Acquisitions of Australian Prints, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Selected Works from the Last Two Decades, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Thirty Years On, a survey of works on paper, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1983 The Mosaic, The Grid, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Richard Larter, John Peart, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1983 Acquisitions 1973-83, University Art Museum, University of Queensland
Figures & Faces Drawn from Life, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Recent Australian Painting 1970-83, Art Gallery of South Australia
1982 Australian Painting & Sculpture 1956-81, Survey from the Collection
1981 Three Years On, Exhibition of Acquisitions, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Spectres of our Time, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide
1980 Recent Paintings from the studios of…., Watters Gallery, Sydney
Videos, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1979 Drawing 79, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1978 21st Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition, Hobart
Lost and Found: Objects and Images, Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne
Tapestry and the Australian Painter, National Gallery of Victoria
Contemporary Australian Drawing, Western Australian Art Gallery
AbstrCanberraion, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1977 Ghost Who Walks Can Never Die, Newcastle Region Art Gallery Watters at Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Illusions & Reality, Art Gallery of outh Australia, & Art Gallery of NSW
1976 Thinking on Paper, Contemporary Arts Society, Adelaide
Mask Show, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Exhibition of Post Object Art Installations, Experimental Art Foundation, SA
Peripheral Pictures (films), George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Vic
Outlines in Australian Printmaking, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic
Trustees Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Aspects of Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1975 Women in Art, WAIT, Perth
Inaugural Exhibition, Devonport Gallery, Tasmania
1974 3 + 3 + 1 + 3, Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Ten Years, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1973 Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Project Show, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
1971 The Nude in Recent Painting, Gallery One Eleven, Brisbane
Yellow House (Various Artists), Kings Cross, Sydney
1967 Sydney Painters, Auckland Festival of Art, New Zealand
1966 The New Art Scene, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
1965 Avant-Garde Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
Catalogues:
The Joan & Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National
Gallery of Victoria, 1996
Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, 1996
Contemporary Australian Paintings – Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection,
Westpac Gallery, Melbourne 1993
Richard Larter, Niagara Galleries, 1993
Richard Larter, Niagara Galleries, 1992
Creating Australia, AGASA & ICCA, 1988
Richard Larter: A Survey, essay by Terence Maloon, University of Queensland, 1985
Freedom from Prejudice, National Gallery of Victoria, 1977
Books:
Mary Eagle & John Jones, A Story of Australian Painting, Macmillan Australia, 1994
Ian Drury, New Art 2, Craftsman House, 1988
Gary Catalano, Bandaged Image, Hale & Iremonger, 1983
Gary Catalano, The Years of Hope: Australian Art & Criticism 1959-1968, Oxford University
Press, 1981
Kym Bonython, Modern Australian Painting, 1950-75, Rigby, 1980
Kym Bonython, Modern Australian Painting, 1970-75, Rigby, 1976
Mervyn Horton, Australian Painters of the Seventies, Ure Smith, 1975
Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1788-1970, Oxford University Press, 1970
Mervyn Horton, Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, 1969
Articles & Interviews:
Roger Taylor, Articulation, 3RRR, 23/5/93
Joanna Mendelssohn, Art & Australia, Eroticism Issue, Vol 30, No 1, Spring 1992
Joanna Mendelssohn, The Grandfather of Oz Pop Art Still Rocking, Bulletin, 5/11/91
Illustrated:
Oz Arts, Issue 3, 1992
Philippa Hawker, The Sunday Herald, 24/3/91
Chris Heathcote, The Age, 11/9/91
Gary Catalano, The Age, 15/11/89
Gary Catalano, ‘The Earlier Paintings of Richard Larter’, Art & Australia, Vol.11, No.1, 1973
Jenny Zimmer, The Sunday Herald, 5/11/89
Arthur McIntyre, ‘Time for Re-evaluation’, Art & Australia, Vol.2, No.3, 1987
Cantrills Filmnotes, No’s 37/38, April 1982; No’s 31/32, Nov 1979
Jennifer Phipps, ‘Films by Artists’, Art & Australia, Vol.18, No.1, 1980
Published by the artist:
13 Sections, 1994
The Magnificent Slum (Sold Out), 1970
You Can’t Drum (Sold Out), 1970
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