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The Forgotten Pop Artist

In one filmed performance, the late British-born Australian pop artist Pat Larter is naked with high heels, her body painted, and she is walking through bushland. A dog happens to amble past. So too does a child.

“It’s very home-spun, making what you can, where you can,” laughs Lisa Catt, assistant curator of international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, speaking of the film in question.

The two homes Larter shared with artist husband Richard Larter and their five children—first in Luddenham

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