A comprehensive selection of works by one of Australia’s most widely regarded artists is on display at The University of Queensland`s Art Museum.
Latemouth: Works on paper 1987–2003 consists of Mike Parr’s works on paper from the past 16 years and a specially re-conceived video projection composition.
The works, on display from July 18 until August 30, are the result of a dynamic 16-year collaboration between Mike Parr and printmaker John Loane of Melbourne’s Viridian Press.
Mr Parr has created more than 1000 prints with Mr Loane since 1987 when the printmaker first sent him copper plates and suggested drawing on them.
Over the past ten years, he has produced a number of prints within the context of the Self Portrait series, comprising works in a range of media, including performance, installation, sculpture, drawing and drypoint etching.
“Mike Parr’s prints have remained very grounded in the concerns of his 30-year artistic practice, in particular the fundamental importance of the performative to his work,” said University Art Museum Director Ross Searle.
“Where his body is central to his dramatic performances, his self portrait has been central to much of his printmaking.”
The exhibition includes a selection of small to medium sized works, a range of large-scale “red” prints of recent years and the video projection of 100 Breaths, a work re-conceived for the exhibition, which extends printmaking into the performative.
In recent years Mr Parr has expanded the scale and used more radical means of making prints, such as dragging them along concrete, or using an electric angle grinder to achieve a heavier and more textured line in his drypoints.
He randomly produced the image in Fallacy of the Instrument 2, a suite of eight large-scale red and orange woodblock prints. The work is a collage of broken blocks from different earlier works, including Mother’s Ink, randomly put together like a jigsaw.
Mr Parr’s works have been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including in Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
The University Art Museum is located in the Forgan Smith Tower at UQ’s St Lucia campus and is open Tuesday to Friday from 10am–4pm and Saturday from 12–4pm. For details, telephone 07 3365 3046.
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