National Gallery of Australia

12pm Meet at main reception for a walk through of the exhibition with Mike Parr

1.15pm Mike Parr lecture in the NGA small theatre

 

Mike Parr is one of Australia’s pre-eminent artists with a practice spanning performance, film, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Emerging from a background of conceptual art in the early 1970s, his interrogatory poems and word works escalated into the provocative performance art for which he is now recognised internationally.

 

Accumulating under the banner of the Self Portrait Project, Parr’s vast body of work uses art and language to crack surfaces and explode character. Delving into memory and the unconscious, his art plays out in a richly associative field in which material gestures are psychologically charged. Resisting a conventional chronology, Mike Parr: Foreign Looking reveals the dense and delicate connections evident in Parr’s continually experimental practice.