Peter Laverty (1926–2013) was a painter, print maker, art educator and gallery director.
[2] Peter Phillip Laverty was born in England in 1926 and studied at Winchester School of Art.
[2] Laverty was included in several significant group exhibitions of Australian art held in New Zealand (1965), United States (1966), and São Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil (1961).
In Australia he held joint exhibitions with his wife Ursula and had a retrospective at Penrith Sydney, in 1996.
[2] Laverty won numerous Shire art awards including; Warringah (1957), Mosman (1961-2), Maitland (1965), Campbelltown (1966), Rockdale (1966), Berrima (1966), and Grafton (1969).