'Role play'
‘Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait’
![An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Luke Roberts’s At the Bar of the Pub with no Beer camera John Elliott 2009, March 2023 An installation view, taken from a low angle, of two gallery visitors taking a selfie in front of a photographic self-portrait hung on a white gallery wall.](/system/files/styles/wide/private/2023-04/QAG_LookingOutLookingIn_installationview_20230328_jruckli_014.jpg?itok=fmk7tW0H)
An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Luke Roberts’s At the Bar of the Pub with no Beer camera John Elliott 2009, March 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / Photograph: Joe Ruckli, QAGOMA
‘Role play’ includes artworks that challenge the notion of individuality, and the idea that a self-portrait can somehow reveal a unique and cohesive identity. Luke Roberts’s photograph At the Bar of the Pub with No Beer 2009, for example, is part of an ongoing series that has seen the Queensland artist adopt a variety of guises through stance and dress.
![Fiona Foley Artwork Venus #7 this artwork made of Giclée print using Ultrachrome ink on Ilford white film on paper, created in 2007-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2009.052_001_3.jpg?itok=t9N9EodJ)
Venus #7 2007
- FOLEY, Fiona - Creator
![Tracey Moffat Artwork Something More #1 this artwork made of Direct positive colour photograph on paper, created in 1989-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1992.115_001_5.jpg?itok=Ijhfvl52)
Something More #1 1989
- MOFFATT, Tracey - Creator
![Yasumasa Morimura Artwork Blinded by the light this artwork made of Type C photograph with surface varnish on paper on plywood in gold frame, created in 1991-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1996.127a-i_002_composite_0.jpg?itok=4whjvl8w)
Blinded by the light 1991
- MORIMURA, Yasumasa - Creator
![© Cindy Sherman Artwork Madame de Pompadour née Poisson (1721-1764) this artwork made of Hard-paste porcelain modelled after a Sèvres original, with Rose Pompadour ground colour, silver details and transferred photograph. Interior of tureen transfer printed, created in 1989-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1990.430a-c_001_1.jpg?itok=LZcw4kfN)
Madame de Pompadour née Poisson (1721-1764) 1989
- SHERMAN, Cindy - Photographer
- ANCIENNE MANUFACTURE ROYALE (LIMOGES) - Manufacturer
![Cindy Sherman Artwork Untitled this artwork made of Colour photograph mounted on aluminium, created in 2007-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2011.084_002_4.jpg?itok=wZ7n8JBN)
Untitled 2007/2008
- SHERMAN, Cindy - 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)
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