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‘Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait’
The exhibition's main themes are augmented by groups of works in which the artist has captured themself in profile; photographs that consider the form’s documentary value and play on the relationship between camera and photographer; and non-representational artworks by the late John Nixon, who framed much of his practice in terms of the self-portrait. Nixon engaged with the genre not through representation but by focussing on a self-defined set of methods and materials.
![QAGOMA Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Pen and brown ink on cream wove paper on cardboard, created in 1948-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2-0250_001_9.jpg?itok=ftvF5nPI)
Self portrait 1948
- KAHAN, Louis - Creator
![© Madonna Staunton Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Ink on paper, created in 1978-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2015.068_23-1.jpg?itok=JTzNcmK_)
Self portrait c.1980
- STAUNTON, Madonna - Creator
![© Madonna Staunton Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Ink on paper, created in 1978-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2015.069_23-1_0.jpg?itok=ociS-M1e)
Self portrait c.1980
- STAUNTON, Madonna - Creator
![© Madonna Staunton Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Ink on paper, created in 1978-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2015.070_23-1_0.jpg?itok=OQZY0pSh)
Self portrait c.1980
- STAUNTON, Madonna - 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)