'Altered states'
‘Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait’
![An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Brett Whiteley’s Self portrait – showing seven incarnations 1970, Jenny Watson's Sleeping in New York 1991 and Chatchai Puipia's Siamese smile: Siamese intellectual (from 'Siamese smile' series) 1995, March 2023 An installation view of three colourful, abstract self-portraits installed in a gallery space, where three visitors looks on.](/system/files/styles/wide/private/2023-05/QAG_LookingOutLookingIn_installationview_20230328_jruckli_030.jpg?itok=h-VZnMdC)
An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Brett Whiteley’s Self portrait – showing seven incarnations 1970, Jenny Watson's Sleeping in New York 1991 and Chatchai Puipia's Siamese smile: Siamese intellectual (from 'Siamese smile' series) 1995, March 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / Photograph: Joe Ruckli, QAGOMA
The artists included in ‘Altered states’ scrutinise the variability of the self-image, whether through masking or distortion.
![Artwork has not been digitised or not available due to pending copyright clearence, thus not currently available online](/sites/default/files/styles/large/filesqagoma/assets/image-pending.jpg?itok=SDhxQrcw)
Self portrait (from 'The Bicentennial folio') 1987
- ARNOLD, Ray - Printer
- KOZIC, Maria - Artist
![Laith McGregor Artwork Maturing this artwork made of Single-channel video projection (DVD): 30 minutes, colour, silent, created in 2008-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2011.169_001_still_3.jpg?itok=WeANJGaA)
Maturing 2008
- McGREGOR, Laith - Creator
![Artwork has not been digitised or not available due to pending copyright clearence, thus not currently available online](/sites/default/files/styles/large/filesqagoma/assets/image-pending.jpg?itok=SDhxQrcw)
Art make-up 1967-68
- NAUMAN, Bruce - Creator
![Cindy Sherman Artwork Untitled #129 this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper, created in 1983-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1991.109_001_4.jpg?itok=zRlmnH3d)
Untitled #129 1983
- SHERMAN, Cindy - Creator
![© Jenny Watson Artwork Sleeping in New York this artwork made of Oil, pigment, plastic pearls and buttons on canvas, created in 1991-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1992.105_001_7.jpg?itok=fUQQ0Jr3)
Sleeping in New York 1991
- WATSON, Jenny - Creator
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![Chatchai Puipia / Thailand, b.1964 / Siamese smile: Siamese intellectual (from 'Siamese smile' series) 1995 / Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 202 x 303cm / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Accession No: 1996.218 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Chatchai Puipia A painting of a huge-scale male-appearing head set amongst lotus flowers, with a ladder leaning against the person's eyebrow.](/system/files/styles/large/private/2023-03/1996.218_001%28crop%29_AM.jpg?itok=hbnxauQ9)
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![Chatchai Puipia / Thailand, b.1964 / Siamese smile: Siamese intellectual (from 'Siamese smile' series) 1995 / Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 202 x 303cm / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Accession No: 1996.218 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Chatchai Puipia A painting of a huge-scale male-appearing head set amongst lotus flowers, with a ladder leaning against the person's eyebrow.](/system/files/styles/large/private/2023-03/1996.218_001%28crop%29_AM.jpg?itok=hbnxauQ9)