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 (b. 1945, Sydney) is widely regarded as one of the most gifted living Australian artists of his generation. This selection of works on paper harking from this ongoing series is from a set of 12 self portraits belonging to the Latrobe Regional Gallery collection. These self portraits of Mike Parr by Mike Parr explore the various states we find ourselves in, mentally, physically and otherwise; navigating the everyday, the ups and downs, and everywhere in-between.