Career
Larter also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques with painting: using a syringe filled with paint to create his early works, and juxtaposing multiple images on to a canvas. The Larters emigrated to Australia in 1962.
Richard Larter"s popular art was less ironic than his American and English counterparts.
In this Larter is similar to other noted Australian popular artists, such as, Mike Brown and Martin Sharp. Larter was exhibited consistently from 1965 on across Australia, including as the subject of over 60 solo shows, most often at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne and Watters Gallery, Sydney, and over 100 group shows spanning almost 50 years.
Notable exhibitions include his 2002 show Stripperama: Richard Larter at the Heide Museum of Modern Art and the show Andy and Oz: parallel visions organised by the National Gallery of Australia and exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United States of America in 2007. Larter was honoured with a retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Australia in 2008, the exhibition revealing him continuing to be a leading Australian contemporary artist.
He died in Canberra on 25 July 2014.
