Auguste Blackman 'Girl with a Red Scarf' flora

Auguste Blackman 'Girl with a Red Scarf' floraAuguste Blackman grew up the son of two icons: Charles and Barbara Blackman. The former was a prominent figure in Australian Modernism; a man whose Schoolgirls and Alices are embedded in our visual lexicon. The latter, Barbara Blackman, is a poet, writer, advocate and muse. By the age of twenty two she was blind, a diagnosis that at first felt like a life sentence for a crime I had not committed but in turn gave her a unique outlook on life. Like

In their beauty lies the nascent threat of death

contemporary art and printmaking

This poetic work exemplifies perfectly Blackman's mastery of graphic practices

this work will illuminate collections of figurative art

Instrumental in Australia’s conservation movement

fire can also be understood as illumination

'Formations I' 1987

In Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’

a tattooed woman is camouflaged against the forest

'Oyez Oyez' unfurls with every glance

he unites new life with new love in a fertile flurry of lines

Mary MacQueen's work is expressive