Pat Larter b. 8 July 1936

Also known as Patricia Florence Holmes
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
For most of her life Pat Larter was regarded as a muse, the subject of much of her husband, Richard Larter's, art. In reality she was often the instigator of the sexually confronting performances he filmed. By the mid-1970s she began to emerge as an artist in her own right, becoming a major figure in International Mail Art. Later she turn to painting and mixed media work. Her career was cut short by her untimely death.
Tags: Mail art, femail art, muse
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Even though her works have now entered public collections Pat Larter is better known as the subject of many of her husband’s best known paintings.
Patricia Florence Holmes was born at Leytonstone in Essax, the daughter of Leslie Holmes, a decorator, and his wife, Pansy. Her father died of tuberculosis when she was four, and her mother supplemented her income by fostering children. The family lived at Canvey Island at the mouth of the Thames Estuary.
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1996
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2019

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