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‘Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait’
![Installation view from 'Looking Out, Looking In' An installation view taken from behind a visitor's head; the visitor looks upon two small self-portrait works hung on a white gallery wall.](/system/files/styles/wide/private/2023-04/QAG_LookingOutLookingIn_installationview_20230328_jruckli_004.jpg?itok=3toFuMWo)
An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Benita Clement’s Self portrait 2016 (© Benita Clements / Copyright Agency) and Nora Heysen’s Self portrait 1938 (© Lou Klepac), March 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / Photograph: Joe Ruckli, QAGOMA
Included in ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ are Collection works in which the artist has captured themself in profile.
![©Alice Blanch Chehovski/Copyright Agency Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Watercolour, pastel and pit on paper, created in 1969-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1985.023_001_5.jpg?itok=kZS1Zqi1)
Self portrait 1969
- CHEHOVSKI, Alice Blanch - Creator
![Benita Clements/Copyright Agency Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on watercolour paper, created in 2016-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2018.429_001_0.jpg?itok=SkI9yTDo)
Self portrait 2016
- CLEMENTS, Benita - Creator
![Lou Klepac Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Oil on canvas laid on board, created in 1938-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2011.080_001_3.jpg?itok=5RjZ-oPe)
Self portrait 1938
- HEYSEN, Nora - 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)
Self portrait 1932
- MELDRUM, Max - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Oil on composition board, created in 1956-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1-0779_002_8.jpg?itok=05T9VRZI)
Self portrait 1956
- MOLVIG, Jon - Creator
![Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1775-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1-0541_002_6.jpg?itok=MDDpUAlr)
Self portrait c.1780
- OPIE, John - 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)