IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
IMAGE: Mike Parr, One work from the series 12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 1), 1989, Etching and drypoint print, 106.5 x 78.5 cm, Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection, 1992
LRG x GPAC: Self Portraits
Mike Parr
Satellite exhibition
20 October 2023 – 4 February 2024
Gippsland Performing Arts Centre, Level One
Mike Parr (born 1945, Sydney) is widely regarded as one of the most gifted living Australian artists of his generation. His work is imbued with a strongly cathartic presence, a direct result of his personally demanding working processes. Parr has realised over one thousand works within the context of his self-imposed Self-Portrait series, in a range of media that includes performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, drypoint etching and photography.
Since the early 1970’s Mike Parr has continually questioned the possibilities and critical reception of contemporary art. By subsuming modes of activism into his practice, and working beyond established structures, Parr rigorously examines aesthetic norms and social circumstances to reaffirm his vital role within contemporary Australian culture.
This selection of works on paper harking from this ongoing series of self portraits is from a set of twelve belonging to the Latrobe Regional Gallery collection, purchased by the Bank of Melbourne Regional Art Collection in 1992. These self portraits of Mike Parr by Mike Parr evoke the various states of mind we find ourselves in mentally, physically and otherwise; navigating the everyday, the ups and downs, and everywhere in-between.