Title

Latemouth Mike Parr. Works on paper 1987 - 2003.

Collective title

University of Queensland Art Museum travelling exhibition

Venues

UQ Art Gallery | University Art Gallery [1] (18 July 2003 – 30 August 2003)

Adam Art Gallery, Te Pataka Toi (24 October 2003 – 1 February 2004)

Date

(2003 – 2004)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (QLD); Aotearoa New Zealand. Prints.

Documentation

invitation; catalogue

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Perhaps best known for his stimulating and often controversial performance works in which the limits of the artist's own body are tested, Mike Parr is widely regarded as one of Australia's most important and challenging artists.

Revealing a lesser known aspect of his practice, LATEMOUTH: Works on Paper 1987 - 2003 focuses on Parr's engagement with print and explores the performative act of mark-making.

Presenting works produced in the context of a 16-year collaboration between Parr and master printmaker John Loane, of Melbourne’s Viridian Press, the exhibition positions the self-portrait as central to Parr’s printmaking.

The exhibition includes a selection of small to medium-sized works and a range of Parr's most recent large-scale ‘red’ prints. It also includes the projected video work 100 Breaths, in which Parr sucks air as he holds 100 etchings on thick printing paper to his face. By 'wearing' his own self-portraits Parr extends printmaking into the performative. [Press release]