Mike Parr b. 1945

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Screen Artist)
Working across a range of media that includes performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, drypoint etching and photography, Mike Parr is regarded as one of the most successful Australian artists of his generation. Parr has realised over 1000 works within the context of his self-imposed 'Self-Portrait' series.
Tags: Performance art, Conceptual art, Body, Printmaking, Printmaker
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Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Close the Concentration Camps
Date
Medium
performance

Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; photograph: Felizitas Parr

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Forms of Independence
Date
Medium
video

Duration 16:29:00 minutes

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
The End of Nature
Date
Medium
video

Duration 36:43:00 minutes

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Sex Murder of the Eye-Hand (They Should be Washed by Veal)
Date
Medium
charcoal and ink wash on paper

137.5 × 125.5 cm

 
creator of
Organon I
Date
URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=83044&View=LRG
 
creator of
Reproduction zero
Date
URL
http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=81707&View=LRG
 
None
Courtesy of: Eva Breuer Art Dealer
Zastruga Self Portrait
Date
Medium
Oil crayon & charcoal on paper

69.5 × 100cm

 
Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
creator of
Cloacal Corridor (io Proté/O Vio Proto/O Vio Loto/O Théthé) Self Portrait as a Pair or Self Portrait as a Pun
Date
Medium
Charcoal, girault pastel and graphite on paper

4 panels, 195.5 × 276 cm each

 
creator of
Cathartic action: social gestus No. 5 (
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4290

Cathartic action: social gestus No …

 
creator of
Rules and Displacements
Date

Installed in the Experimental Art Foundation basement, 1976

 
creator of
Leg spiral
Date
URL
http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/artworks/exhibitions/img/parr.jpg
 
creator of
Performances (1972-75)
Date
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4289

Performances (1972-75) colour and black and white video, sound, 39min 30sec.
These performances are very much of the form of 'art by instruction’ originally used in 150 Programmes and Investigations.

Hold your breath for as long as possible.

Light a candle, hold your finger in the flame for as long as possible.

Push tacks into your leg . ...

 
creator of
Self-Circle on Sand - No.1
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3775

SELF-CIRCLE ON SAND No.1 …

 
creator of
Self-Circles on Sand No.2
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3779

SELF-CIRCLES ON SAND NO.2.(a work for Video …

 
creator of
Pushing a Camera over a Hill
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3769

PUSHING A CAMERA OVER A HILL (A work for videotape)
23 November 1971
Commence at the base of a hill (gentle slope and well grassed) . ...

 
creator of
Time Isolation
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3780

SELF-CIRCLE NO.2.-TIME ISOLATION(a work for Video …

 
creator of
Mirror Definition
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3777

SELF-CIRCLE No.1 …

 
creator of
To Comprehend Reality One Must Surround It.
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3778

SELF-CIRCLE (a work for Video …

 
creator of
Bubble Work
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3776

BUBBLE WORK(a work for video …

 

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