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Peter Booth

Peter Booth: Human/Nature by Jason Smith (with contributions from John Embling and Robert Lindsay)

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March 2004, no. 259
Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Peter Booth: Human/Nature' by Jason Smith, John Embling and Robert Lindsay

Last summer, Peter Booth became the first living artist to have a full-scale retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square. With eighty-one paintings and 150 drawings, it ranked as one of the largest surveys ever accorded a contemporary painter. It was a bold move on the gallery’s part and made a claim for Booth’s pre-eminence within his generation. Surprisingly, there were no interstate takers for the show.

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