...in Yooralla at twenty past three, 1978, [Micky Allan] tints an inner city narrative sequence about the end of the day at a school for handicapped children so subtly that it takes on a lyrical beauty, and becomes a metaphor, perhaps, for human dignity.
Ian North
A Decade of Australian Photography 1972-1982 (exhibition catalogue)
Phillip Morris Arts Grant at the Australian National Gallery, 1983