Exhibition - Richard Larter: Free Radical 2025

when: 16 January 2025 | | cost: Check website for details | address: ANU Drill Hall Gallery, 29 Kingsley St, Acton | website: https://dhg.anu.edu.au/event_post/richard-larter-free-radical/

published: 16 Jan 2025, 5 min read

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ANU Drill Hall Gallery presents Richard Larter's exhibition: Free Radical.

Richard Larter has long been recognised as a founding father of Australian pop art, a role he, with typical contrariness, rejected. His working ethos was as a non-conformist, entirely anti-authoritarian, scorning of power inequity. Arresting, bold and daring, Larter's painting found energy in a fusion of popular culture, mechanical reproduction, the power of the ‘image', new science, page three smut, and global politics.

This exhibition locates Larter's rich stream of luminous abstract paintings (many painted in Canberra and Yass) within the body of his figurative work. While informed by his adventures into popular culture these works are also firmly rooted in the histories of abstraction, holding great concern for composition and the formal dynamic relationships of colour, shape and line. Fluid, lyrical and improvised, Larter's work refers to the energies of place and the politics of the times.

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Exhibition - Richard Larter: Free Radical 2025 | What's on in Acton

Exhibition - Richard Larter: Free Radical 2025 is on 16 January 2025. The opening hours are: Check website for details. Conveniently located in Acton. Call 02 6125 5832 for details. Visit their website at https://dhg.anu.edu.au/event_post/richard-larter-free-radical/.

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what: Exhibition - Richard Larter: Free Radical 2025
when: 16 January 2025
start time/end time: Check website for details
phone: 02 6125 5832
city/suburb: Acton ACT

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